Who am I?
Expat Kiwi, IT Sysadmin by trade. Recently moved to the UK to “broaden the horizons”. Arguably came to the wrong place and unfortunately had to spend a lot of time traveling in Europe. Have a particular interest in photography, Linux, and of course IT in general.
This blog is not tied to any specific subject, so you’ll find anything here that tickles my fancy – which so just happens to be photography and IT stuff most of the time.
About those ads
Originally this blog was hosted on WordPress.com and was really just a play site. Then I realised I was paying them for services while they were also getting the adsense revenue.
So I decided to stop being lazy, host it myself, and hopefully learn more about ecommerce in the process.
…but affiliate links as well?
In future if I review a product I will generally include an affiliate link. This means that if you click through to the product from this site and make a purchase, I receive a commission (usually in the order of 2-4% of the sale value). This could be seen as an incentive to provide positive reviews, but I see it as more of an incentive to review good products. 
At the end of the day though, this site is here as a hobby and a learning exercise – not so I can quit my day job!
About the reviews
I don’t strive for completeness, 100% accuracy or technical perfection – generally these aspects are covered better elsewhere. What I do focus on is things that I would want to know before purchase – basically the review I would have wanted to read. On that basis, if you read a review and want to know something that isn’t covered, feel free to ask in the comments.
–Alex
hey man,
I’m also in Auckland doing IT stuff, or at least trying to with the economy the way it is haha. I kind of google stalked you to this page from a random post on drupal about daily notices. Just wondering if you are having success in the Auckland market and whether you need a guy who’s pretty good with the whole Windows side of things (I see you are coming from a more non-windows background where I’ve come from purely Windows stuff and only now getting into some unix stuff).
Let me know what’s haps,
Cool
David
Hi David,
I’d completely forgotten about that post, actually had to stalk myself to find it again!
Unfortunately I already have good backup for Windows stuff, but it’s always good to work with people that are flexible thinkers and willing to diverge from the “Microsoft way”.
I wish you all the best.
Alex
Hi, Alex came across your site after trying to get a bluetooth dongle that will work on karmic and hardy- are you aware of any, i’ve bought two and neither are being enumerated with a port for Linux to list it on lsusb. tried for weeks to get this thing up and running but no joy- can you help?, Regards John
heres some of my post on the forums that may help explain more…
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1377901
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1351779
Hi John,
Do other USB devices work (apart from the webcam) ? Your problem appears to be with USB rather than Bluetooth, so I’d be Googling along those lines, in particular “device descriptor read/64, error -71″ (remember to omit the minus on -71). If lsusb can’t see it, there’s little chance in bluez being able to. It may also help to add the chipset the computer has to the search string. I haven’t encountered this problem myself, hope you resolve it!