2010, New Year in Auckland NZ.

After watching the Skytower fireworks from Auckland's Skytower all I can say is WOW!

as in......wow. is that it?

I hate to be cynical at a time of rebirth but c'mon NZ, what the hell is going on here?

New Zealand is the first major country in the world to see the new year and yet we fail to capitalise on it. Every-Time!

Sydney will go off! Why? because they are the first people to see the new year! Wooooooooo! at least this is what the world thinks. No one knows that poor little NZ is actually 2 hours before them and why? because NZ gives the world absolutely no reason to watch.

But.

NZ is more than happy to use our tax dollars to fund elitist sports which no-one even watches. For godsake NZ take those millions of dollars you gave the the America's cup and give it to Auckland to put on a decent New Years Party with some fireworks which might actually make people say 'wow!' in a good way that is...

Sydney spends up large every year because they know that the world is watching and they bring it a heap of tourists from it!

By the way, the first words I head in 2010 were from an Italian tourist standing right next to me after the Auckland fireworks. he said 'It was very poor'.

I completely understand, the Poor bastard probably wished he had gone to Sydney instead.

'USB Over Current Status Detected' Error Fixed

So, you have been messing around with your PC and suddenly you see 'USB Over Current Status Detected, Shutdown in 15 Seconds!'

(if you just want the answer, mine is posted at the bottom of this page. Scroll Down to the * to see.)

Dear God! WTF?

Well if you Google this problem you will find a whole bunch of different solutions but I thought I'd write my own since it was really quite simple.

I have a Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard and I just upgraded to Windows 7 using a new hard drive. Once I did this I also upgraded my RAM to 4GB.

After a few issues with the Hard Drive and system 'hang ups' I started to investigate in the BIOS for any problems and then after a few unsuccessful goes I discovered the ominous message 'USB Over Current Status Detected, Shutdown in 15 Seconds!'

Shit!

Ok, well I tried a few things to get the system back and I even inserted my old Seagate drive with Vista on it and I could not get past the message. I could not even get into the BIOS.

* I ripped out my latest stick of RAM (Legend. L1264D37 - BU1HDH9B - 1GB DDR400 Hynix HY5DU12822BT - D43) and suddenly everything was fine again. I don't know how or why a dodgy stick of ram would cause a 'USB Over Current Status Detected' Problem but go figure....

I'd love to know what the problem actually was but it only appeared after I inserted an older SATA WD Drive which seemed to set of a chain reaction of problems culminating in the 'USB Over Current Status Detected' problem.

Good Luck with yours!

Muzzerino.

System:

AMD Athlon X64 +3200 Venice Core 2.0GHz
Asus A8V Deluxe
Asus Nvidia 7800GS
4 GB RAM (Now 3GB RAM thanks to this problem)
WD Greenpower Drive Caviar 1TB HDD
WD 250GB HDD

Merry Christmas to the World from NZ

Merry Christmas to the world from hot and Sunny New Zealand.

Summer is not quite my idea of Christmastime but we are making the most of it and enjoying it all the same. For those of you in the Snow, enjoy it.

Have lots of Snowball fights, make snowmen, visit the beach and BBQ with family. Whatever you do, just enjoy it and have a wonderful Christmas!

Cop Pulls out his Gun at a Snowball Fight

Poor Detective Baylor, I know how annoying it is to be bombarded by snowballs from people you do not know. :-)

Maybe this Police officer thought he was about to deal with an angry mob and pulled out his gun as a precaution.

Fair enough I reckon.

But there is no getting away from the fact that it looks really really bad for the DC police, especially when the mob questioned him on it, he just dug his hole even deeper (something we have all done from time to time) by saying 'yes, I drew my gun, because I was hit by a snowball'.

Maybe it was a silly thing to do and surely he never would have fired it (perhaps?) but in any event, this guy ain't gonna have a very Merry Christmas for sure, and that's just a downright shame.

On the other hand, those 'mature' people who were shouting 'Fuck you Pig!'. I bet they are going to have a great Christmas.

Seasons Greetings to you all and please do not throw Snowballs @ cop cars. :-D

From WJLA News