OS X Aqua apps - update?

I've just skimmed through the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, but I can't spot where the 'Check for Updates' option is supposed to go in a desktop app under Aqua. I really like this feature, esp. when the app goes off, downloads the update, and unpackages and deals with any migration of existing versions/data etc without having to mess about with it. But it's never in the same place in every app!

Sometimes it's under the Application menu, sometimes under the Help menu, and sometimes hiding in a preferences panel for the app somewhere. Personally, it logically should be under the Application menu, as it's an application action (not a 'help' action really).

Weird that it's not documented in the guidelines. Hint, hint Apple!

Has Vodafone NZ gone crazy?

I can't believe the iPhone tariffs in NZ... [link]. NZ$250 for only 1GB/month of included data? Are they totally crazy?!
I pay £35/month here for unlimited data (GPRS/EDGE, and 3G when it kicks in, plus unlimited wifi at selected wifi providers), the same number of minutes, and 500 texts which is only 100 less than the voda nz plan - the 1GB tariff in NZ converts to about £95 at today's rate.

And I thought O2 were ripping us off in the UK, but that's just ridiculous!

Better sort this out before we move back to NZ (if we ever do!). Things like this going on in NZ really p*ss me off.

Oh and while I'm at it, there is some clown already camped out at the Auckland store, wanting to be the first iPhone 3G owner in the world. Erm... congratulations? [link via Koz's twitter]

Trulli crashes out on Friday Practice

Trulli crashes out on Friday Practice
Originally uploaded by rachaelr

Taken at the British F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone over the weekend.

Trulli crashes out on Friday Practice

Trulli crashes out on Friday Practice
Originally uploaded by rachaelr

Taken at the British F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone over the weekend.

cricket shots

A few shots from Lords yesterday. NZ v England, final ODI.

Yeah mate, that was a cracking delivery...


This guy kept our entire stand entertained for a good 5 minutes looking for his friends. Half the icecreams had melted before he found them.


Just a nice action shot in the late afternoon sun.

Heaps more on my flickr set. And another couple of hundred still sitting unprocessed on the hard drive! Shot with a 70-200mm f4 L IS, from up the very top row of the Upper Grandstand, so about as far away from the action as possible - mostly around 1/640th, varying ISO depending on how much sun was about.

busy

busy two weeks coming up.

To kick off, we're going to see The Black Seeds [official site | wikipedia] (one of my fav bands, who happen to be from NZ) play at the Camden Ballroom on Wednesday.
On Saturday, we're going to Lords to see the final NZ vs England One Day Cricket match. Fingers crossed the weather is good - we only saw 40 mins play the last time we went to Lords for a NZ v England match.
The next week, we head off to Silverstone on thursday (couple of hours north of London) for a long weekend of motor racing and camping for the British F1 Grand Prix.

Should be a LOT of great photo ops in that lot...

dinner tonight

k is cooking dinner tonight, based on this recipe from yesterday morning's Saturday Kitchen on the BBC. "Loin of pork with braised artichokes and courgettes with thyme and lemon zest", minus the thyme and artichokes, and with pork escalopes rather than smashed out Loin, but close enough!

smells good anyway...

BBC iplayer on the telly

BBC iplayer on the telly
Originally uploaded by rachaelr

Via the Macbook through a dvi --> hdmi cable. sweet! Just plug in the cable, drag firefox over to the TV display and hit the full screen button on iPlayer. Not the best quality, but then the feed is really fast, so I'll sacrafice a bit of quality for 'instant' streaming.

Papparazzi alert! Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani
Originally uploaded by rachaelr

A shot I took last weekend at a London Music show, of Joe Satriani looking rather inconspicious while signing autographs.

Shot with a 70-200mm f4 IS lens from about 10 meters away (looking through a gaggle of security guards) and the trusty 430ex on camera, with horrid dim red and blue ambient lighting :)

night night macbook

in the last two days, I've had two occasions where my macbook won't wake up from sleep. both times, just have a black screen with a cursor, and no amount of hitting buttons/moving the mouse/shutting and reopening the lid seem to help. naughty macbook!

so it's a hard shutdown and restart, which I really hate doing on any laptop. Both times the macbook was plugged into AC power.

If anyone has any ideas (I've googled around, but nobody really knows why safe sleep is causing this), please drop me a line!