http://bugga.net Your home for information on Wine, IT, and Stuff! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:24:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick post to encourage people not to get their cars serviced at Lexus of Adelaide, nor should you purchase a new Lexus from them. For I have received SMS spam marketing (number used: 042967374)from them today - and am forced to make conclusions like the following. If they market via ... http://bugga.net/2008/08/20/lexus-of-adelaide-evil/ The joys of starting nagios in hardy heron - after installing as per the ubuntu site - I was unable to access the Nagios webpage by accessing http://localhost/nagios2/ - it took a little while to work out what went wrong, the fix is really quite simple. Ensure that you include the  ... http://bugga.net/2008/07/21/nagios2-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron-804/ Phwoar - this is a tasty Tawny. It's got orange zezt combined with orange blossom honey as a primary flavour, with mocha and burnt toffee backing it up - these combine very nicely to form a full, mouth filling flavour that is not too intense. There seems to be a ... http://bugga.net/2008/07/21/wirra-wirra-sparrows-lodge-tawny-port-nv/ An awesome article that encourages people to comment on photo's intelligently. Certainly something I'd love for some of my photo's would be nice to see more people (especially on sites like flickr) make a comment with more thought involved to it than, great, crap, i love it etc. The article is ... http://bugga.net/2008/07/08/how-to-comment-on-photos/ Watermelon Curry. Half a small watermelon or quarter of a large one. 4 garlic cloves, crushed. 1 pinch turmeric powder. 1 tsp cumin seeds. 6 - 8 cardamom pods. 1 tsp hot chili powder. 1 cup coconut milk. Peel the watermelon and cut the flesh into bite-sized cubes. Fry the garlic, cumin seeds and cardamom pods in a little ... http://bugga.net/2008/06/30/watermelon-curry/ Blu-Ray why is it not gaining consumer traction, quite franky I believe the answer is really quite simple and the studios are somewhat retard for not waking up and making this format the DVD killer that it could be - PRICE. Currently those studios that are bringing their back catalogue ... http://bugga.net/2008/06/12/blu-ray-why-is-it-going-no-where/ This Cab Sauv from Wirra Wirra is a fantastic drop. I think it deserves a phwoar ;) Seems the 2006 goes for $30/btl I'd suspect that I got mine on sale somewhere for around the $20 mark but I still think it would be worth $30AUD as price of admission. ... http://bugga.net/2008/06/10/wirra-wirra-sparrows-lodge-cabernet-sauvignon-2005/ It seems that having the occasional drop of red wine could really be good for you.  The catch is that it seems the resveratrol is something that is very helpful for your health and diet and can be found in red wine (albeit in small quantities) yet not so much ... http://bugga.net/2008/06/05/the-joys-of-a-good-drop-of-wine/ Now with the common availability of wireless internet connection over 3G phone networks having a portable computer is now feasible for many people there seems to be a dearth of decent portable computers to suit my needs Things like the eeePC from ASUS seem almost ideal but there are a few ... http://bugga.net/2008/06/04/itty-bitty-pcs-not-quite-right/ Kingsleys Crab and Steak House have recently made me very happy in the way that they have handled an issue I had with them, and it's always nice to have a happy story to tell regarding customer service. The not so nice: I came in this morning to two marketing emails from ... http://bugga.net/2008/05/05/customer-service-done-right-kingsleys/