Dear Apple Computer,
congratulations on the hard work you have put in to producing your greenest mac ever, I bet it was really hard work.

However, I must let you know about a few oversights on your part.
1) Outside of North America, in the rest of the civilised world, people who say “aloominum” are douchebags, regardless of officialities. Don’t be a douchebag. It’s spelled aluminium, you can pronounce it “al-oo-min-ee-um”. Want to impress those of us who loathe Windows constantly defaulting to EN-US as the language? Don’t discard the obvious syllable. Or at the very least, get a localised dubover.

It’s bad enough that we have kids these days calling Jam “jelly”, and Biscuits “cookies”, and the letter Zed “zee”. Insulting us (especially commonwealtheans) further does not make you sales.

2) Make the ability to give such feedback directly possible on your website, plzkthx.

3) I look forward to buying a mac tablet. Hurry up with that, and make sure it’s made of aluminium, not aluminum.

Hugs and kisses.

Me.

Wierd Al Yankovic – Don’t Download This Song

Last night I’d decided that I’d had enough of single handedly managing all my debts and bills, so this morning I went into my bank and consolodated my debt, with an agressive payment scheme.

Basically I’m NZD$12k behind for various reasons on a number of different things, and I’m paying anywhere up to $1.8k a month, which is making life hard, especially when I have no visibility of where most of the debts are at. The worst part is that there is one debt that varies quite wildly from $170/month to $800/month without warning – a stable $1.8k a month I could probably deal with, but an unstable total that’s all over the place just makes life complex sans reason or sense. With this consolidated loan, I’m paying $1k a month, which will get me even in a year, and I now have a tangible goal that I can check up on and aim for. I’m hoping next month to have some money in from people who are still owing me, and I can flick another $1k onto it. It may seem like a lot to take out of my monthly pay, but all up I’ll have more cash in hand each month, stability will be brilliant for a change, and I may finally be able to restart my savings.

It feels good to have my finances in order for a change, and now I’m inspired to really get on top of things. After this loan is paid for, I plan to attack my Student Loan, which is currently taking about $400 out of my pay. I figure I can change the $1k loan payments to a $600 payment (to top my Student Loan repayments up to $1k, while giving me $400 extra a month to reward myself for a year of knuckling down), and have my Student Loan all paid off within another year.

Look out ladies, I’m ambitious!