Blissful ignorance

The iMac In A World Of MacBooks On The Brink Of iPads

This "tech" post encapsulates so many of my pet peeves with the Apple / Mac love fest its actually quite amusing.
However the "tech writer" manages to encapsulate it all in one quote:

"Another element the iMac gives you that a MacBook does not (at least not yet) is the option for a “Fusion Drive”. Marketing terms aside, this is a great method of compromise that Apple has come up with. Essentially, you have both a solid-state flash drive and a traditional hard drive in the machine, and software found in a slightly altered version of OS X Mountain Lion determines what data should go where automatically (based on your usage). This allows you to have the speed of SSD with the storage volumes of a regular hard drive."

You see hybrid hard drives (as they are generally known) have been around since Seagate released them in October 2006. And yes that 6 is not a typo. This tech is actually older than Facebook (literally) but because it's got an apple on it it's suddenly hot. To twits like this anyway...

Brilliant backup service with a fatal flaw

SocialSafe, The Social Media Back-Up Tool, Raises $400K To Out-Archive Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

Socialsafe is providing a fantastic service for anyone conscious that they might like to actually find that tweet or post about when their child's first tooth was. Especially when said child gets old enough to ask about things like that (typically when they have kids, so ask yourself how soon you want that to be...)

However I do have one major beef with it - the client is written in Adobe Air - which might not mean alot to most people. But this is a language / framework that has already begun to be deprecated (ie killed but in a progressive slow fashion) by its only maintainer Adobe.  So I have to question - why would you backup your social life using a tool that's already dead?

Systematic

Systematic

Headdesk

Headdesk

A good question

A good question

In that the answer is "because it's a bloody stupid law". And just because something is law doesn't make it right.

A sacrificial public servant

A sacrificial public servant

Lawless farmers

Lawless farmers

Savita's law

Savita's law

Big brother is watching you

Big Brother is watching you

Green logic

Govt to hike petrol taxes and road user charges 9 cents over three years to pay for 'roads of national significance'

Only the Greens could reason that increasing taxes on petrol results in locking more people into a car dependent lifestyle.  While I can understand them decrying building of motorways as a philosophical standpoint to suggest that using petrol taxes to do so is a bad thing just demonstrates the total mess this country will be in if they ever have a genuine say in running it.

The ministry of education gets a spanking

The Ministry of Education gets a spanking

The HYEFU

The HYEFU

Compensation for rendition

http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/compensation-for-rendition.html

The end of an era

The end of an era

Reported back

Reported back

NRTR

"The Government actually doesn't care about Kim Dotcom"

Alright - in the past I've always been frustrated by No Right Turns no comments policy, so from now on I'll try to create a post for every article to allow conversation to occur
Let loose people :D

Food for schools - done right

Fonterra rolls out its Milk For Schools programme nationwide, following success in Northland

Showing once again that it's not all about Government and tax

A worthwhile thought piece

Bad Incentives That Work Quite Well: The Opportunity Cost of Political Partisanship

Worth reading regardless of your particular political partisanship

Oh please make this true

Chris Avellone blesses inXile's Planescape: Torment successor • News • PC • Eurogamer.net

Planescape torment is one of the few RPGs that can hold a candle to Daggerfall.  Heres hoping they can stay true to the spirit and make something even better.

IRD tax grab stupidity incarnate

IRD backtrack confuses employers and employees with ruling that the cost of accommodation when a worker is required to work away from home is taxable income for the employee

I'm desperately hoping the National government in power can put paid to this piece of ridiculous interpretation.  Frankly there can be no sympathy with the IRD over cases of tax avoidance when they throw out their moral standpoint in the most spectacular of ways. There is no way that anyone who has ever traveled for business would argue that a hotel room was a perk, and I'd love them to show how in the majority of cases an employee was able to reduce their costs by the "income" they are suddenly being attributed.