http://www.zagz.com Technology, Travel, eBay, Airline seating, Social Networking -- a life online Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:23:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to the Delphi Geek's post When Vista Doesn't Print I finally got Vista to print to my multiport print server a D-Link DP 300U. Earlier versions of Windows worked by just adding a local port. Windows Vista allows you to do it just like always, but it doesn't work. You must ... http://www.zagz.com/vista-lpr-printing/ My 14 year-old daughter came home from school today and was raging against "the government". I was so proud of her standing up to "the man".  Now that's a strange reaction - as a kid I was totally neo-conservative. Digging for the details, because indignant 14 year-old girls are inconprehensible, it ... http://www.zagz.com/kids-days/ I'm using a new budget laptop at the moment. It's a Compaq c700 (actually a c763TU) that will eventually go to my kids, so I thought I'd checkout what Vista Home Basic is like. On a laptop it makes no sense! Laptops move from location to location, but the networking features ... http://www.zagz.com/vista-home-basic-not-good/ Update:21 July 2008 Don't upgrade to 2.6! wait until 2.6.1 as there are permalink, login and posting problems. Of course this is the first time in years I haven't taken complete backups before upgrading :( I thought I should mention that I've upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6. In this day ... http://www.zagz.com/upgraded-wordpress-26/ My wife was watching commercial TV tonight and an ad came on saying Australians should get a cholesterol test. This ad and the website being promoted is sponsored by Pfizer Australia. That was in small print in screen at the bottom. So I'm guessing Pfizer sells the leading cholesterol treatment. Prime ... http://www.zagz.com/how-to-pronounce-pfizer/ I've just installed Relationship Completer on my MacBook to help organise my addressbook better. It lets me link cards using the relationships attributes built into AddressBook and does away with data entry duplication. Given the iPhone is coming to Australia, and how great MobileMe looks, I'm relying more and more on ... http://www.zagz.com/relationship-completer-mac-addressbook-plugin/ OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in ... http://www.zagz.com/openstreetmaporg-free-as-in-speach-street-maps/ We saw a preview of Juno tonight. It opens in Australia on 17 January 2008. Go see it, it's the best film of the year. It's as good as Little Miss Sunshine, American Beauty, Election, The Breakfast Club - I can go on. It captures a voice of youth and the ... http://www.zagz.com/go-see-juno/ We saw a preview of 27 Dresses thanks to 20th Century Fox and Metro Magazine - since 1968 Australia's oldest, continuously published film and media magazine. I've managed to somehow overwrite the original review - how frustrating. I like a good romantic comedy. Most of my ... http://www.zagz.com/27-dresses-short-review/ I'm a bit surprised that I haven't published a public update since 12 November 2007, but then again I haven't been doing too much stuff in the Technology space nor much Travel that I can post about - the nature of mergers & acquisitions is that most of them are ... http://www.zagz.com/2008-looking-forward/