22nd
June
2010
After an hour’s download and installing at home, I’ve spent most of this morning playing around with iOS4 on my iPhone (and seeing a few patients in between…)
And thus far I’m impressed. I love the folders feature, although it took me a while dragging app icons around on my phone to get it all organized. Now I can get to all my apps so much faster, without swiping through pages and pages of icons. And I can also download heaps more apps to play around with. Yay!
One weird thing is that I’ve downloaded the iBooks software onto my iPhone, but can’t find the App icon anywhere. I can load the app by searching for iBooks on the search screen, but the icon is nowhere to be seen (and I looked in all my folders several times!). Weird and annoying.
I like the customisable backgrounds, little GPS icon and the new location services screen. Multitasking seems quite functional, and there is no hit in terms of performance, although I haven’t really pushed it too far just yet. In fact the whole phone feels considerably more zippy than with OS3.
For a good detailed rundown on iOS4, see this article from Gizmodo.
In other Apple related news, the Perth Apple Store opens this Saturday. Look forward to checking it out, but I’m afraid it will have to wait til I get back from my UK trip (leave next Monday).
Tags : apple store, ios4, iphone, perth
Categories : Apple, iPhone |
3rd
September
2009
It’s quite possible that no-one even noticed this website was down but I’ve been busy over the last half a day. My old webhosting provider (netlogistics.com – stay away from them) was getting increasingly unreliable and their software didn’t allow me to take advantage of new features of wordpress. 
Finally yesterday after a week of crashes by account went offline and that was the last straw. I have now migrated succesfully to a new provider Dreamhost, who for about the same cost provide a much better level of service, or so it seems thus far. [thanks to ob1 for the recommendation]
Setting up email and transferring my domain over to the new host was very simple, as was installing the WordPress blog software which basically was a 2 minutes job. The tricky and frustrating part was importing my old blog database into the new wordpress install. I would hate to have to start from scratch and lose years of blogging history. After giving up about 1230 last night and fiddling for a little while this morning I finally got the database to import. Then I had the problem of all the permalinks to my posts not being in the right place. That took me another couple of hours of frustrating fiddling around between patients but I’ve got it sorted now so hopefully if anyone has ever linked to me the links will still work…
And now I’ve finally got the chance to try out all the wordpress plugins etc and it’s great! All the things that never worked on my old server now do, like one click automatic upgrading of plugins, and hopefully the Wordbook plugin which should hopefully cross post this to Facebook. Hello to all my Facebook friends if you’ve never discovered this blog before!
Finally, just for the purposes of testing, here’s a YouTube video I came across this morning – This is Perth. It’s a tongue in cheek documentary about our wonderful city. If you are from Perth you’ll probably think this is funny. If you don’t know Perth, you’ll probably be saying “what the?” 
Mercifully this morning at work hasn’t been too busy to enable me to get all this done, but I really should go and see if any more patients have arrived…
PS – please let me know if you encounter any problems with the site…W
Tags : Australia, dreamhost, facebook, perth, Wordpress
Categories : Australia, Housekeeping, Video |
1st
September
2009
Usually if you ask me what I’ll be doing in 2011 I won’t have a clue, but I can tell you one thing I hope I’m doing – going to a U2 concert.
Just came across this piece of news : U2 super tour here – in 2011.
Now I’ll be amazed if the tour actually makes it to us in Perth. Usually it bothers me that big name artists always skip Perth on their tours – we’re a decent sized city not some little country town – but in U2′s case I will choose not to be angry. After all it does take 60 semi-trailers to cart their stage and equipment from city to city (wonder if The Edge has one of those just for his guitars and effects and amps?) and Perth is a very very long way from anywhere, as you can see on this map…
If you’re not familiar with Australian geography, consider that the whole continent is roughly the size of the continental USA, and basically the whole huge area between Perth and the blue bit is pretty much empty (Adelaide is the next reasonable sized city and they are pretty close to the blue section… U2 probably won’t make it to them either). Perth is the most isolated city of it’s size in the world. So I’ll make an exception for U2 and their 60 semi trailers and will quite happily fly across the country to see them (maybe in Sydney – middle of the green; or Melbourne – bottom of the blue)… now what would be cool is if they decided to just fly the band across and do some ultra-secret intimate gig somewhere in Perth and only a select few (including me) got invited – that would be awesome.
So anyway that’s my plan for 2011. If anyone ever hears about confirmed dates or ticket sales etc (or if you can score me an invite to the “secret Perth gig” – shhh…) please let me know straight away! I will be forever in your debt!
Anyway better get back to work and see if any patients have showed up (a bit slow today), and I’m due in theatre in half an hour or so..
Tags : Australia, perth, U2
Categories : Australia, music |
28th
May
2009
Heading off for a mini-getaway today. Firstly an excursion to the Zoo with Luke and then a couple of nights in the city. Sure it’s only 50km away but we don’t get there much nowadays and it’s a good option when time or money doesn’t permit a proper holiday. Anyway it’s a good excuse for a little Billy Idol… beware though, it’s a very strange video…
Tags : 80s, perth, Video
Categories : Personal |
10th
June
2008
Well last Saturday our back fence was blown down in a storm, but mercifully we missed out on the even worse storms that hit our area yesterday (see this story). I wasn’t really aware it was that bad until I heard the news last night, but apparently there was a Tornado wreaking havoc in Rockingham, with many houses badly damaged and residents evacuated etc. Tornados are something we don’t usually even think about here in Australia – it’s more something you associate with the USA. For example for our friends from Nashville, it was a very real possibility. I’m sure yesterday’s tornado here was still pretty minor compared to the big American ones, but maybe it’s a wake up that we’re not necessarily as safe and cosy here in Western Australia as we feel. We are pretty lucky though – no earthquakes, volcanos, no major storms or floods. Cyclones in the North-West have generally petered out by the time they reach us. I guess the one “disaster” we see with any degree of regularity here is bush fires but even those are usually fairly contained and not catastrophic. Perth is still probably a safer place to live than Kansas after all.
Tags : perth, storm, tornado, weather
Categories : Australia |
