http://www.funk.co.nz/blog Some stuff that some people wrote Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:17:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After for working well for ages on my MacBook Pro, this 1.5TB WD Elements drive has changed to being read-only. Which is weird because I've been using it for ages, even had it set as my iTunes music folder so not being able to change the disk is a pain. ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/technology/things-related-to-mac-os/external-ntfs-drive-goes-read-only-bug That movie was bloody brilliant. Highly recommended. Great insight into Brazilian "Baile Funk" music, this actually totally explains the weird amounts of traffic I was getting off Google from Brazil for my "funk" ad campaign... the genre is more like hardcore miami bass dubstep hip hop battle music with scorching ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/film/favela-on-blast-movie-review I'm having this problem using the Finder's search on NTFS external drives and its very annoying. "0 Items" When I try to use the Finders search facility on a folder on a mounted NTFS external USB drive, I get absolutely nothing back: Yet there are definitely files there: OS X 10.5.8 What I want to ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/technology/things-related-to-mac-os/finder-cant-search-ntfs-folders-bug I just did a bunch of search phrase research into the subject of Coach Tours and other tourism tour related search queries while building up an Adwords campaign for Tour Sale Finder Australia, with a view to creating adgroups around each theme. And here they are, sorted alphabetically: Adelaide Alice Springs Alice Springs To ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/online-marketing/top-60-australian-tourist-destinations Now this is what I call a spreadsheet! Here you can see an 8,000 row spreadsheet in Excel 2007 which is being used to prepare a bulk upload into Google Adwords editor, for use in the Adwords campaign for Fetch RV Rental Spain, one of my companies many motorhome hire websites. It's ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/online-marketing/using-formulas-for-find-replace-in-excel I was on YouTube the other day and it instructed me to logout just before creating a new YouTube account based on my Google account. After clicking the link, it cycles through a bunch of Google ccTLD domains like com.br, .cn, .es, .fr etc, then finally lands at a URL ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/technology/strange-redirection-loop-when-logging-out-of-google-services If you are logged into a Unix shell, say like the Terminal on Mac OS X, or bash in Linux, sometimes you want to show a web pages source code. I use this for checking a pages source code from another location outside my network. This is helpful if you ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/technology/unix/how-to-use-wget-to-show-page-source-code Sometimes its not possible to easily figure out where you're traffic is coming from in Analytics - the referrer is a great feature of browsers and tells Google Analytics what page you were on when you clicked, but sometimes this doesn't work as you'd expect, or give as much separation ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/online-marketing/analytics-url-tagging-how-to I personally love the idea of investing in Green Tech. The government needs to setup a "clearing house" website where all the available options are indexed and catalogued. For example, I understand in NZ the government has provided: interest free loans for solar power? insulation support? no road user charges for 4 years for ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/politics/investing-in-green-tech This is an awesome peice that I have reproduced... He makes a point that I myself have come to realise in parallel: moderate and peace loving muslims need to do something about their world to prevent it from crumbling away. A good example is Muslim Feminism - where is it? ... http://www.funk.co.nz/blog/politics/its-time-for-peace-loving-muslims-to-speak-up