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3rd
May
2006
For several months now, I’ve been using as my main “search engine” A9.com (I posted my initial thoughts on it here .) It’s Amazon’s own search page and I’ve made heavy use of the half Pi (1.59%) Amazon discount, and have valued it’s ability to search multiple sources in different columns simultanously. For example I usually have 3 columns configured to search Google web, Google images, and Wikipedia all at once.
But now Google seems to have disappeared from my A9 and replaced by Microsofts ‘Live‘ search. Frankly the results aren’t as good an I want my Google back! But I can’t seem to find any way of getting it back into my columns. I may have to revert from A9 back to Google plain as my main search page if I can’t fix it. If that’s the case I’ll just try and do enough token A9 searches to keep my Amazon discount current … although I really need to wean myself off Amazon as well - spend way too much time (and money) there…
Categories : Internet |
3rd
May
2006
Rise a pre-emptive strike, says PM | Business | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (03-05-2006)
I’m sure glad I signed up for a fixed interest rate when we bought our house a few months back, since rates went up today. I can’t say it’s a surprise and with booming housing markets it’s not necesarily a bad thing, although it will make things harder for those who have already overstretched their budgets. Predictably, the comments on the news site are all full of people blaming “Johnnie Howard,” when in reality the RBA’s decision is completely independant of the government. It will be interesting to see how this might affect the upcoming budget though. I’ve just about given up on any prospect of all those big tax cuts that there was a lot of talk about a few months back,
Categories : News |
3rd
May
2006
Don’t you hate it when you try to follow the instructions in a manual to the letter, and it still doesn’t produce the desired results?
Lately the colour on our LCD projector has been getting progressively worse, and as the lamp life counter indicated the projector lamp was approaching it’s end, I ordered a new lamp from Japan on ebBay (very quick shipping - only took about 5 days.) Anyway I installed the new lamp yesterday and the picture is now brilliant. The only job remaining was to reset the counter. “Press these four buttons in order for less than 5 seconds each” said the manual. “Less than 5 seconds” is a little vague, but I tried so many combinations - 4 seconds, 1 second, half a second etc, all to no avail - the counter is stuck on 1776 hours. Looking on the net, it seems that I’m not the only one who’s had this problem with this particular projector. Now why can’t Sony make it more straightforward?? Well, at least the projector is working better anyway.
Categories : Personal |
