Here’s how I invented the single modifier keypress that has found it’s way into some Apple products.
Health
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What is a ‘safe’ level of roundup?
Call me naive, but changing the amount of Roundup allowed in food based on how much Roundup a farmer puts on his crop seems a little back the […]
computers / wordpress
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wp clean up plugin
This plugin a beauty for trimming a bloated akismet database from wordpress. See here my kismet has over 600,000 entries of spam – bloating my wordpress table and […]
Health
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Sydney University Diabetes Unit lies about sugar
Researchers at Sydney University recently came out (see the handbook below) and said there is absolute consensus that there is no link between sugar and diabetes… Really? Who’s funding […]
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Ceoliac disease and Roundup
“Here, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup®, is the most important causal factor in this epidemic.” Barley, Corn, Sorgum, Wheat, Molasses, Wheat Bran, […]
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Low fat milk will help you lose weight… WRONG!
“middle-aged men who consumed high-fat milk, butter and cream were significantly less likely to become obese over a period of 12 years”
computers
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migrate time machine backup to new machine
A complicated problem. When you buy a new Apple computer the Time machine backup resets and you lose your backups. This person writes about it better than I could. […]
electronics
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LOVE Fisher and Paykel
Our 10 year old washing machine pump motor has a small leak around the shaft. 1. Download Fisher and Paykel service manual from the web. 2. Order new […]
computers / Health / wordpress
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Truth Allergy
For those of you interested in health issues, I’ve started a little blog here keeping tabs on controversial health issues.
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Media frenzy over Catalyst documentary on Cholesterol
Catalyst, a very conservative ABC science program, ran a great episode on Saturated Fat and Cholesterol on 24th October. (Similar material to my post here.) How dare Catalyst criticise […]
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EMF – mobile phones and computers
I trained as an electrical engineer and even though I know EMF interacts with our bodies (most people have experienced sunburn) I guess in my head I’ve always […]
computers
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How to move all your messages to a new gmail account via your mac
Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your local computer. It uses the standard IMAP protocol but also takes […]
Health
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Australia is WAY behind the rest of the world on all this stuff
We’re way behind… Travelling round NZ recently made me realise how backward we are in Australia. We are so conservative in the way we trust the medical profession and the […]
family / holidays
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Cheap Travel
Some good websites for cheap travel deals: Flights http://orbitz.com We got tickets from Sydney to Auckland for $108 each one way (Carry on baggage only) http://expedia.com We […]