Blog Updates, Calendar Updates, broken Macbook

Well first of all, there has been some blog updates, inspired no less by my Grandfather! He's at a fragile old age, so he can't read the screen all too well. This is not a problem however, as he sets all fonts to 16 and higher in Firefox (which is out of beta and into version 2.0!). That got me thinking, as I really struggled to read this page being marginally away from the screen, as I am a Keratoconus sufferer. As a result, I have enlarged all fonts in my blog, in an effort to make them more readable... I encourage everyone to do the same, or at least follow the web standards so that it can be properly auto resized by browsers.

Also I have updated my Calendar for well into 2007! All the dates I can forsee have been duly added and accounted for. Please consult to it and collaborate (if you have a google account, you can add appointments, invite me to yours etc.) I use it all the time (especially as I have iSync, which syncs it to my Nokia 6021 and iPod through iTunes.) Google now sends me an SMS (although it costs standard rate [13c per message for me] :-( ) two days before every appointment as a friendly reminder.

As the title reads, my Macbook was well and truly borked, well at least the charging function is. I rang Apple, which were more helpful than I expected. They offered to send me a replacement charger, which I offered to take, but the operator agreed with my assesment that it was the Power Management Unit, and that another AC adaptor would not cut it. I have since taken it to an Apple service center, called Mactivate which is in Blanchardstown in Dublin (right by the ugly water tower near Dublin airport while driving on the M50). Also just a quick footnote, but I recently read of spammers hiring people in the third wirld to read capthcas (like ones I use) and post spam. It seems I may have been affected by this, luckily it was still filtered by akismet!! muhahahahaha