some useful tips for getting more out of OS X

Cote at redmonk, had these tips to share.
As ever with Mac, a couple of button presses, gets "COOOOL" emote

interesting stock movement

with all the chatter about the new iPhone form apple, i wondered how it would affect the big phone handset manufacturers (specifically Nokia, who is 1/3 of finlands econnomy according to the stock market)
So Drew this graph

showing almost no movement of Nokia on NYSE, interesting.

Via James Robertson, saw this graph, showing apple Vs Palm and CrackBerry.

WOW, glad i waited to buy my next gadget...

in case you live under a rock it seems that that 8no great surprise) the apple mobile was announed.
check engadget for drooling fanboy details.

Now i am really torn;
palm
+ cheap, i know it works
- end of life, expensive add-ons
Fujitsu Loox N560
+ GPS, VGA screen
- expensive, runs Windows

and now the new iPhone
+ runs OS X, reasonable size, sexy as
- unknown how locked down it is, apple tend to botch the first release of a product, no memory card slot, camera

oh my gosh, that was easy

seems that Windows continues with it's amazing record of security.
Here is a walkthrough of how to get system (root) privaledges.
(yes, i know, nothing for months then three posts in a day)

Security Theatre are reduced at Manchester Airport

well it seems that shoe bombers are no longer a threat (I did not have to pass my shoes through the scanner this time)
although bottles of liquid and cigarette lighters are the current major red thing that the highly trained security personnel are worried about.
Also unusually, i did not get my random security massage

The Joy of PC's

 just one more reason to hate computers, seems that even though computers need to keep relativley accurate time, they can't.
Seems Jeff Atwood has found that time syncronisation does not work too well.

two teath out and very little pain

went to the dentist today (again), i have to say that the dentists here in finland are VERY good.

at least the pain killers are working (even if they do make me feel a bit spacey).

On a more possitive note I am doing better than this skunk

Strange things you learn...

When your farther passes away (slightly unexpectedly)

• Find out their lawyers name (or at least where the will is!)


• do they have any specific wishes for their funeral


• who their firends are

so instead of like me faffing round, it goes all smoothly.

recipe for black pudding

Pork, pork fat, pearl barley, oatmeal, barley flour, rusk crumbs, onions, salt, herbs, spices

But what i want to know is, what is the blood listed under?

Hauskaa Vappua

Well, that is the first of the big drinking events of the year over with.

Read details about it at Helsinki Sanomat (the largest circulation finnish newspapaer)