Normal MBP temp here ~47/48 degrees.
I decided to get more VodPod videos and from there played a Youtube video. It was playing in Safari.
Youtube + MBP temp ~65 degrees.
That is an amazing jump. A video makes the mac work so much harder the temp goes up by what.. 40% ?
Inefficiency somewhere is the only explanation.
“They’ve called me a whore, a gold digger, a fantasist, a liar,” she added, complaining that she had endured “eighteen months of abuse [and] 4,400 abusive articles”.
They can call you what they want – it’s legal. and stop counting.
Mills appeared on GMTV with a large file of press clippings, calling for European law to make the press “just and fair”.
She’s weird. First because she’s collecting press clippings and second because she thinks she can make the Press fair. If it was fair it wouldn’t be interesting.
“What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her,” said Mills.
Blonde. That’s the single connecting thing. Trying to connect with a princess is not a good thing.
“I’m gagged at the moment because I’m not allowed to say a word while the media are fed this spin by a certain corner,” she said.
says the woman on GMTV, News 24 and no doubt others.
The dignified thing would have been to say “Paul, it’s over. I couldn’t possibly take any of your money because I did not earn it. Let’s be decent for our child and work things out there”. No press and probably admiration from others. But no ….. so the result, as messy as it is, can be laid at the door of one person.
I’m using the macbook pro more and more when I don’t really need the mouse but the heat underneath has been really hot. The other night I closed the lid and attached the power as I took the dog out. On return it was very hot at 65 degrees. And the other day I opened it from sleep and it refused to wake, the little light kept pulsing though so I just had to switch it off. Anyway, heat.
I was after a lap protector/cooler type thing. Has anywhere in the county of Leicestershire got any? Yes they have – so long as you want fans underneath. I’d seen the iLap which seems good and I saw one that Joseph used in San Francisco last year. But that was like 3 days away by post. I was in more of an instant satisfaction mode. But shopping got in the way so off to Tesco we went (and we only went there because we needed dog food from the pet shop in the same place). J came in too so we looked almost everywhere but we also passed chopping boards. Amazingly Tesco have a chopping board that has nicely rounded corners, softened edges (I forget the proper word but it rounds down to the rounded edge) and it’s the perfect size for the mbp. The mbp has extra feet to lift it anyway (idea from Andy) so the area under is cool and the natural grain of the wood stops it sliding all over. Very good indeed, and only 7 quid. I’m running at a steady 47 deg here.
Incidentally, I ran an Apple shop in Nottingham and asked if they had any laptop stuff like iLap. The guy said no, and why would they sell them? Weird, these things cook…
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” Any modification, change, alteration or similar action” – what is this? Thesaurus time?
“... you have no right to modify, change or alter in any way … the link to GoDaddy.com”
So you copy their link code, realise the img tag could do with an alt tag and instantly your right to place that link is terminated.
“ The right to place a link to GoDaddy.com may be terminated or revoked for any reason whatsoever in the sole and absolute discretion of Go Daddy.”
And ANY link to them ANYWHERE can be terminated if they want. What? Bizarre, utterly bizarre.
The site I mentioned in the post below. A friend’s dad wanted a site for his business. I talked to his dad and in the end he got the domain and I set up WordPress for what he wanted. It’s not a blogging site at all – it’s a business site. It took me all of 30 mins inc the photos he wanted. It was a favour done one evening and the ‘reward’ is that one day I will call the favour in from the son – as in “I need a hand with…. I need you to help”. The dad asked how he got his site found by people so I explained how – and said I would link to him for a while which I did.
It was a business site and that link would have looked like a paid link. But it was not. So if I installed a few blogs and had in the sidebar “And here is one I made earlier” then Google are going to nail me even though they aren’t paid? That’s nice. Still, Google knows best…..
A domain of a friend’s expired and it was not renewed. Not good. It was still in the cycle though and for $200 could be recovered from enom. No, not for that much. As it was getting close to being up for grabs we decided to wait it out. This domain only has the .co.uk registered otherwise, and that is to the same person. Still, he really did want it. So I placed two backorders.
One was at GoDaddy, the other at Pool. GoDaddy is $19 upfront and includes the domain. Pool is free to try but then $60 if they get it. Pool is well thought of in this game. I was online and constantly reloading my registrar’s domain search page – I use Namecheap – and saw nothing. I was reloading GoDaddy’s page and all that said was that they had last checked the day before and I knew that the domain was dropping at about 6pm that day.
Pool got it. It’s cost $60 but the domain name is returned. It wasn’t a high demand domain but the $60 is one of those lessons that you learn. I emailed GoDaddy. I said that the backorder had failed and what were my options with the $19 they had. I did not ask for a refund. I was told there are no options. All I can use it for is a backorder. I have 32 domains registered at Namecheap and I have enough in an account there to cover the renewals for the next few months. After doing all the above I’ll not be letting any domain expire. So backordering has no use at all to me.
It’s not that I want the $19 back. If I had been told that I could buy a domain and hosting I’d have been happy. Just hosting would be okay. But no. Bob Parsons has obviously decided that as most people will use backordering just the once it’s a really easy way to lock money in and away from people. It would not cost to move the credit. In fact there is no earthly reason to stop a credit being moved – apart from inflating profits. The amount is not the point – and it is part of the lesson learned in some ways – but the fact that GoDaddy refuse to allow that credit to be used anywhere else in their system is just plain annoying.
When I used to answer people in the wordpress.org forums who asked about hosting I would advise them to stay away from GoDaddy for a couple of reasons – and this event above is exactly the sort of detail that to me demonstrates how they would deal with an actual problem – badly. Come to think of it I don’t think they ever featured on the /hosting page there. Wonder why….
Experienced nurses should have the authority to decide if patients should be resuscitated, according to new guidelines to health professionals. BBC
Economics. That is what triggered this. Not patient care, not experience, not patient knowledge, just economics. People are becoming more aware that Do Not Resuscitate orders exist. Gone are the days when all this was hush hush and terms like “No crash” “No 333″ “TLC (tender loving care) only” were used as professional jargon. And when people know of something they will rail against it at some point.
“So your father – who had had 9 heart attacks, had advanced chronic obstructive airways disease, had kidney cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, gangrene in both legs, probably brain damage and warts – had his last heart attack and died, and because he had a DNR you think that’s wrong and are going to sue this hospital?”
“Yes”
“Okay – suspend the nurse who made that order”
Suspending a Dr costs a lot of money. They need full pay, the hospital needs to pay over the odds for a replacement and it could drag on forever. Effect on patient care can be measured.
Suspending a nurse means they still need their wage, but compared to the Dr they are cheap. There are lots of nurses so effect on patient care is zero.
The British Medical Association will have instigated this and there are 2 important factors here:
- Dr’s are supremely protective of their little empires. So giving any territory away is serious.
- The BMA could not care less about their handmaidens.
The BMA know that Drs will get sued, know it will bring their profession into the headlines and know they do not want this to happen. So easiest thing to do is wash their hand of the whole affair and make sure their ties are straight for when they are interviewed .. “Oh no, I would have said he could recover, We can treat gangrene very well these days and 9 heart attacks? Well you have to ask if they were even giving him the medication we prescribed”
This role is a poisoned chalice.
Dreaded Blue Screen of Death mars some Leopard installs
It’s still not clear what’s causing the snafu. Seems at least some of the the people experiencing problems had a third-party developer app called Application Enhancer installed ……. To recover, users were instructed to rip “Ape,” short for Application Enhancement, from the Leopard’s maw. The process is too gory for us to print here, but suffice it to say that, among other things, it had users use a command line to purge files with names like “Enhancer.prefpane” and “com.unsanity.ape.plist.”
Just works eh?
Early evening last night I realised that Metroid 3 for the Wii was out. And I had forgotten (see, I get so wrapped up in work!) and I said to J that tomorrow I would be going town to buy it. I then tuned back into work mode.
Some years ago I read a book called “Why men don’t listen and women can’t read maps‘. This really is an amazing book. So much so that if you see it, buy it. Just get it. I promise you will not feel the money is wasted. It has saved so many arguments and given us (this includes my daughters) so much insight into how we (Man/Woman) operate that the book is gold. One such thing explained is called “The butter is in the fridge”. I will ask where something is and I’ll be told (for instance) it’s in the fridge. I’ll look and say it’s not there. I’ll be told that yes, it is and I should look properly. Again I look and yet again I state categorically that the item is not, repeat not, in the fridge. As this point one of the ladies in the house will open the fridge in front of me and take out the item – which could well have been on the front of a shelf. This used to irritate them hugely. “Are you blind or what” (No) “Why don’t you look properly?” (I did!) “You just wanted to annoy me by making me get up and come this way to get it for you didn’t you” (No, I really don’t need the grief) and this book explains that this is typical Man behaviour. It’s not my fault. It’s The Way It Is.
Now J used to come in from work and would then rabbit on and on and on about her day, who did what, when they did it, what someone didn’t do, what was said to who about who etc etc. Used to drive me nuts – every day this happened and I never did this. Work was work, it happened elsewhere and stayed elsewhere. In the end when she walked in, I tuned out. Later she could say “Remember I told you..” to which I would have to reply “Yes of course my dear!….” though she eventually realised I was not listening and that irritated her. Another thing that still drives me nuts is ‘Woman Speak”. Example: Man is out and he damages the car. He enters the house and says “I damaged the car, bloody idiots on the road, if I could catch him, it’ll cost me a packet”. This succinctly conveys that the car is damaged, it was not his fault, he is angry at the other person and he didn’t want to have to spend the money. Now, here is the Woman version: She enters the house, “You’ll never guess what happened. I’d just come out of the shop and – did I say I met so-and-so in there? haven’t seen her for ages. Well she’s dumped the guy she was with and she’s hooked up with that guy you used to play football with – why don’t you play any more? You really should you know – anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I wish you would out the mirror back as I like it in the car after you have used it. I got to the car ……” and sometime later she mentions that the car hit something. When J did this it used to really drive me crackers. Inside of me there would be a little person screaming “Get to the point dammit!!”. But because of that book I know understand that this is a Woman thing and She Cannot Help It. So I take deep breaths. I tried saying “Yes yes but what’s the end of this? What’s the point” Where is the result?” to which she would say “No, you won’t understand, you need to know all this”. Like hell I did.
Back to the droning on she used to do when she came back from work. The book mentioned trigger words that would cause the Man to stop ignoring and immediately tune in. Like when in a room someone whispers your name. We worked out that I had at least one trigger word – sex. If J said that I was all ears. This was very effective. No matter how tuned in to the task I was, the mention of that word get her attention. It was that effective that the girls would use that word when I seemed to be ignoring them – which I wasn’t, it was a tuning thing. Metroid. So I’d said to J that I’d be going town and I was soon back reading, replying and fixing. At some point while talking to P (who has just had her hair straightened and she looks fab) J said “Tesco”. I have no idea why but that word tuned me back in. I leant back to look around the corner and said that it was open 24 hours and that we should go there right now because they sell Wii games. This was about 10pm. I then tuned back into work again thinking my words would be useless. But P then said she needed some “hair stuff” and J wanted some Jelly babies. So off we went.
Tesco is a sane place at 11:15pm. Hardly anyone around, no rushing, no distractions, security are too busy watching some drunk lads coming into buy beer and I could actually go in straight lines between the parts of the store I needed. Very nice. Last year we started shopping in the very late/early hours because of this. Saves so much hassle. So I bought Metroid, P got hair bobbles and bread to take to feed the ducks today and J got her Jelly babies.
(I have News 24 streaming on the PC. Has anyone noticed they are using a sample of Bejewelled music in the summaries?)
Go buy that book. And I will hope that Tesco has not replaced sex in my life.
Anyone got Bri’s mobile? I’ve facebooked her because I think she forgot to renew her domain – hence the 404 event.