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National Australia Bank Stupidity

Friday 6th April, 2007 8 Comments

Well, I woke up this Good Friday holiday morning thinking about enjoying the long weekend, only to have my entire weekend ruined by the stupidity of a bank. When I logged in to my National Australia Bank Online Banking to check my accounts (as I do on a daily basis), I had a message waiting … [Read More »]

Filed Under: General

ThinkPad Keyboard System Beep – problem solved !

Wednesday 4th April, 2007 37 Comments

I’ve noticed an annoying beep that happens sometimes when I type. It’s always happened at random times with many of the ThinkPad’s I’ve used, but I’ve never found out what was causing it. It has become extremely annoying with my new T60, because the beep (which sounds like a plain old “system beep” kind of … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Technology

Student Life

Tuesday 3rd April, 2007 1 Comment

Spent Sunday afternoon at the UTS library. Leanne wanted to find some books for her big assignment (4000 words) that’s due in a couple of weeks – but didn’t want to drive in herself. She convinced me to come with her – I figured I could take my new laptop and connect to the uni’s … [Read More »]

Filed Under: University

No Longer Blue

Friday 30th March, 2007 3 Comments

Well, as of about 11am this morning, I am no longer an IBM employee … I’ve been made redundant! It’s a rather stupid situation … let me explain how it happened. Back in mid 2005, I was running some training for our business partners with the help of a colleague who was based in Hong … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Work

Farewell Laptops

Wednesday 28th March, 2007 Leave a Comment

Just gave three of my laptops back to IBM (actually, I transferred them to another employee, who will probably just dispose of them through our asset management system). So for a few days I had 6 laptops, but now I’m down to three, soon to be 2. Returned: ThinkPad 600X This old clunker hasn’t been … [Read More »]

Filed Under: General

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