Jughead’s Journal

I am a big fan of Gmail with its great big archive button and lable feature.

I did some hunting around and made some macros to bling my outlook out!

first the result…

The Arcive button moves the email to an archive folder and the copy and move bring up a box to move them else where

The other buttons assing categories to emails so the 1800 old emails in the archive folder are now tagged for easy locating.

You move the buttons onto your tool bar by customising it, using the macros you have set up and then renaming the button and using text only.

The macros are after the break…

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I had to vist someone in hospital yesterday for about three hours. While we were waiting we got to reading the magazines left in the room. There was a Girlfriend magazine from 1998! Maybe it’s about time they updated their catalogue a little.
I am happy to report though that Christina Ricci is in fact a hot up and coming under 21 year old and Sony have just realised their new Sony Discman in hot orange with ESP2.

Listening to National radio on Friday some people are astonished that the Police had some difficulty using the Army for anything more than ‘administrative support’ during the siege.

now the government has asked for a report to find ways to make it easier to “call out the army”

Once again we are faced with this damned thing called common sense.  It just seems to make sense that the police use the army when they are confronted with a lone gunman. The government should make it easier to do that right?

wrong.

When you sit down to think about it and put individual, highly emotive cases to one side there is a very good reason why there is separation between the military and the police. Using a nations military against its citizens should always be a last resort and should never be ‘made easier’

You only need to look at nations where this is common place to see it’s a road we don’t want to go down.

If necessary police should have their own armored

vehicles. Better the devil you know.

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Do I think David Bain is guilty? Yes. Do I think that beyond a reasonable doubt? No. So in that respect I think the Jury got it right. The Defense team didn’t prove David innocent but they did produce enough experts to dispute the crown and sow just enough doubt that the jury couldn’t make any other decision.

The 111 tape was interesting…

Firstly the crown tried to portray David as a cold blooded killer who shot his family then spent 15 minutes setting up the scene which included a suicide note and arranging the bodies…If the crown was correct and was that calculated why would he confess to a 111 operator at the first opportunity? This evidance dosen’t fit with thier case.

Second the defence contends that he did not say those words.  If they belive he didn’t say anything why go to such lengths to suppress it? Given the reaction to the tape thus far it seems it would have sowen more doubt and helped their case.

One last thing  Rosemary McLoed is right we should remember there are still five dead people. Three of them never got to grow up. With all the fist pumping prehaps we have forgotten that.

So the new Iphone 3Gs has been announced. The first thing you need to know is…

Cellular and wireless
UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

That should make some people inside Telecom very happy indeed. The new Iphone will work faster in many more places on the XT network over Voda’s network.

This is because Voda use 2100/900. 2100 is their original 3G roll out and only works in 19 towns and cities around NZ. If you want to go further than that and not be on dial up speed you will need a 900 phone…

XT on the other hand is 850 everywhere all the time.

This makes the likleyhood of an Iphone being sold through Telecom a very real possibllity!

I have installed postie on the blog and set up a 'cron' job to automatically upload. lets see if it works..

Getdataback

After some overheating issues I tried to reinstall XP and only ended up formatting both my drives :/

but get it back did what it says and got most of it back!

Ive spent the last couple of days trying to teach my self how to extract people from backgrounds in photoshop. Hair is very diffcult to get out of plug holes and photos…

Here is my best attempt so far, in my own defence the subject is quite tricky, I should have started on something a little easier…

Oringal photo was kindly provided by WTDPOS over at DeviantART

I have signed up to del.icio.us. For awhile now I have been missing my bookmarks at work so I needed an online space. The firefox addon will integrate your bookmarks into the browser so no missing your point and click.

I have grouped my tags in to seven folders and now I should have bookmarks when ever I need them.

Now to integrate them here…

took the day off to head to the foodshow today. I suspect the recent weather didn’t help attendance and it was a little smaller than in previous years. We go on preview day to avoid the crowds and this year was great. It was nice to see some stall holders there from previous years like Goldmedal Wines who import Chillian wines like the very tasty Carmenere. As always the Hawkesbay region did themselves proud with a great showing. Other regions should get thier act togeather.

pics over there break…

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