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Why You Should Not Trust Your Receipt

It was an ordinary shopping night one would think. Except for when we checked out that is. A very fishy amount of over $300 said so. We were not as shocked since we had not done the shopping the prior weak and were down in supplies but this was exceptional still. We had never in our lives had had a bill of over $300.

Coming home and having had put the groceries in the kitchen I examined the receipt carefully; scanning the amount column carefully. I came to realize that the bill included over 3 kilos of parsley that we certainly had not bought. I made my parents aware of the situation immediately. After having spent a few moments to think, the thought of either potatoes or onions being incorrectly classified came to mind. I quickly got my brother to check the onion and potato bag for their weight. Guess what. The potato had been entered as parley@ $30 a kilo vs potato at dollar thirty, I think.

Well I hope that doesn’t happen again. We were refunded the $90 or so that was overpaid. We now check our bills thoroughly for correctness. I guess no one is perfect

The Spray Can

Amendment to Alvarion Post

Lest I forget that the content is copyright and really I should not be sharing it. I reckon it should do no harm cause I am not really calling it my own. I am only sharing what really should be available to those who need it. Hope everyone understands.

The Spray Can

Can Anyone Rival My Record

It has been nearly four years since I came back to Fiji. Although it is a great place, some things simply are not good here. I have not been to a commercial cinema since I have come here. Not that I remember anyway. I have not eaten at McDonalds or KFC a lot either after having seen “Super Size Me”. At most once over the last 3 years. The documentary is worth a watch. I reckon if everyone saw it, McDonalds might run out of business. The meals at any one of these places are would be utterly disgusting an unhygienic, not to mention unhealthy. It is needless to say that these places are among the most visited restuarants in Fiji especially since the local universities are located near by.

We are also now beginning to see more and more “slow food” restuarants emerging in the capital and around tourist spots. I suppose this is a good thing. They will be a worthwhile checkout.

So can anyone beat my record? (vegetarians not included)

The Spray Can

Alvarion Networking Gateway/Router NG-4D1W

For all of those like me who got a router from their WISPs. To be specific the Alvarion equipment, then you would not be given a manual for that equipment. So after having searched up the manual from the web, I have decided to upload it here onto my blog. It is a shame how Alvarion does does not make this info available to all people, especially since those ISPs would usually not give you the manual anyway. Hopefully this might make it easier for you to configure your gateway correctly.

The file is on the right hand corner at the bottom, under the box My Stuff.

Enjoy

OpenDNS

I recently tried the free domain name service OpenDNS after my ISP’s DNS servers suffered some problems. Although the ISP DNS servers were O.K at first, they began to show problems like blank pages and occasional service shut-downs. Although at the time I had not read any reviews of the service at the time. Most of the time people don’t have issues with their DNS service but chose to use OpenDNS because of the features that they offer like spell correction, faster load times and anti-phishing filters. In my case I was really looking for a solution to a problem, however, my experience was rather short lived. Since I do not reside in the US which is where most of their servers are located, I ended up getting certain sites in the US edition rather than the localised editions of the sites. Having also read of some reviews and a few comments about the service, I have since then decided to use the openDNS server only as my secondary DNS. The primary remains to be my ISP’s DNS server.

Has anyone else had the same problem? What are your views, post your comments.

later

It’s True, I tell You!

Very funny stuff I heard recently. If you live in Fiji like I do then you will certainly know of the village six and four cinemas. The story as such is of the local shareholders. They would be deemed fairly wealthy people, it doesn’t look it from where I see it. Their family members or even visitors to their homes are not allowed to eat more than 2 pieces of bread. Tea leaves are recycled and used more than once, who knows how many times they would be using them.

I have also heard of this one incident where the daughter-in-law accidentally ate a prawn to taste the meal and since there were only 3 prawns per person, they fell short of a prawn. Some people in the house were quite furious that night, I hear.

Since then the daughter-in-law had to seek a divorce. Just goes to show you how some wealthy people are just so “mamagi” and can’t spend money on even feeding themselves. I found the fact that they use the same tea leaves twice quite humorous really. What about you guys? Post your comments.

Ciao

Hi All

It took me some time to get started on a blog but I finally did it. I hope that it becomes something that I might enjoy doing. I suppose the hard part is done, choosing a good name for this thing. I don’t know right now what it really means but I’m sure I’ll think of something.