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Hah! Finally got it right to get my ipod charging from the USB and still able to play.  CAll me nOOb should you wish, but i honestly have tried this before on numerous occasion without success.  Method: Plug in, kill iTunes and then eject the ipod device.  Keeps charging, but is free to play, Ta da!  Of course I am using the Ipod mini, whose battery is not the greatest anymore hence the need for charging, I believe is the greatest Ipod ever created.  It is pretty much the proverbial hip flash and could stop a bullet.  Small caliber, I would rather not have it try stop a 20mm round.  If it did most of my internal organs would probably be jelly anyway.

You are probably asking yourselves why i don’t just use iTunes on the pc to play my music.  Well, I think and mind you this is really on a very vague working theory at the moment, but i think the onboard sound card is the culprit causing my machine to totally lock down, badly.  I don’t even get the blue screen of death.  Just dead dead dead!  These freezes have been to date irksome, system restart and you are on your way.  Only about 15 minutes of work could be lost, but i am paranoid so i save ever 20 seconds these days.  However they took on a far more diabolical nature the other day.  If I am working on a drawing and it freeze it corrupts the drawing, the drawings backup and the drawings backup backup beyond recovery.  Thus destroying the entire drawing, which means more like 7 hours worth of work being lost.

I am still unsure if it is the sound card / iTunes or some obscure system conflict that involves those two.  To save my sanity i am using the iPod and have put in place two, not one, but two separate automatic backups in place, one at a 15min interval and one a a 60min interval.  Hopefully with such measures in place the PC will give up trying to send me around the bend.

Yes there are.  I was at Builders warehouse last Sunday to get some work benches to alleviate the storage capacity in our new kitchen.  I even took my tape measure with me to check all the sizes etc.  Even went as far as to measure the bench and measure the car to make sure the bench would fit in.  So much for spatial awareness =)  Anyway the 900×600 does not come flat pack and does not fit into a Toyota Corolla…

Anyway after the poor packer ran backwards and forwards a million times for screw drivers and alan keys we manage to get the top of, but the legs and shelves just would not co-operate. what with them be skew nailed into place.  We have to specifically ask our contractors to skew nail anything on site, but the bench makers seem to get it right.  We did try to get them out, but no luck.

Then a very nice gentleman whose name i never caught offered his man’s bakkie in assistance.  We loaded the shelf into the back and off we went with the bakkie, man and shelf in tow.
That was that, shelf home, sanity restored and more packing space for kitchen.

I cannot thank those guys enough =)

A country robbed, a continent in shock!
Thank you for making us proud Ghana.

(Photo by Paul Gilham – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

We FINALLY got the keys to the new house yesterday after an epic 6 month wait.
Who would have thought that buying as house could take half a year…HALF A YEAR!
Personally i blame the owners and the estate agent and not necessarily in that order,
it all depends on who has caused the biggest ruction last.

We went round at about 5pm last night collect the keys and enjoy our new abode.
HA! the agent was having none of that, none I tell you. This was even after I rather pointedly asked her to leave as we would like to just spend some time there alone.

Nope, had to show us how the garage opener worked…Correct me if i am wrong, but you push the button and the door opens.
Not to mention lamenting us with how she had fought for the finial, which had come down sometime in the 6 MONTH wait, to be reinstated.
Badly i might add, just hope it does not fall on my head if it comes down again. The kicker though was US: “There is a door handle missing” – HER “Oh! they never used that door anyway”
Well we might, did you ever think of that.  Guess not.

We did have some bubbly with our now fellow Obzites and newest neighbours and
they admirably listened to our rants and the tooks us to Touch of Madness for a fantastic steak =)

I am pretty sure the the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact a light.  I am just not sure if the train is coming from the other side or not…tracks go both ways you know.

Tried to upgrade my wordpress and ended up completely breaking it.  On the bright side the helpful internetz told me how to fix it, still don’t have the latest wordpress installed though, but hey it’s working.