Note: Mac OSX 10.5.x “Leopard” does not need this. Apple seem to have made some changes in the way Leopard interacts with the file system making automatic refreshes far more instant.
A small but annoying thing about Mac OSX (version 10.4.x and older it seems) is that sometimes it doesn’t refresh itself when a file [...]

A letter to Larry Hryb, Microsoft’s Major Nelson about how to help save power with the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista Media Center:

Great news. They’ve started the frame on our new house As always you can see the photos in the photo album.
Regards,
Shane.

Well I succumbed and picked up Microsoft Vista Home Premium for my Media Center PC.It’s actually running extremely well and is more stable than XP Media Center 2005. It does have it’s little quirks, and one of them is getting my home movies that are stored on a network drive to show up under Vista [...]

Today was Imogen’s first day at big school. She had alot of fun & got to meet new friends (and old ones), and starts full time tomorrow. She loves her uniform (and looks great in it), and Mum & Dad are very proud (and still dumbstruck how quickly 5 years flew).
If you want to see [...]

So, we’ve accepted an offer on our current house (cooling off period ends tomorrow), and they’ve cleared the block and laid the framework for the slab for our new house. New photos have been put in the New House Photo Album.
Regards,
Shane.

Christmas 2006 was lots of fun… we started out at home finding Santa had eaten most of the biscuit we left and drank all of the glass of milk. Lots of presents later we headed to Nanna & Nono’s house where more presents appeared. Later that evening we got to Gran & Grandad’s where, you [...]

I just wanted to take the opportunity and say Merry Christmas from my family to you and yours. I hope you get to spend some stress-free and relaxing times with your family and friends, and that 2007 is better and brighter than 2006.
Take care,
Shane (and Samantha, Imogen & Bianca).

My eldest daughter Imogen turned 5 today.
Whilst her party will be this weekend with her friends (she’s chosen to go to Putt Putt Golf), she did wake up a happy girl to find a brand new bike waiting for her downstairs.

Hi everyone…
I picked up a new HP Photosmart C6180 printer today - nice printer with auto sheet feeding scanner and copier, as well as inbuilt fax. It also looks nice too: