Well, for all of us hasty 'OK'-clickers, here's an object lesson. A small graphic design and publishing house in Melbourne (which will remain nameless) recently obtained a few copies of Apple's exciting new operating system, Mac OS X (see this month's First Looks, page 36 for the review). Like many of us, they clicked 'OK', rather than reading through all the legal stuff (which, incidentally, is called an End-User Licence Agreement). In amongst the EULA of Mac OS X is the following note: 'This software is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control systems, life support machines or other equipment in which the failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.' And, if that isn't scary enough, elsewhere in the same agreement: 'This software should not be used in a commercial operating environment or with important data.'

The first bit is, believe it or not, pretty standard EULA fare. The second bit is particular to beta or pre-release software. Pity the good folks at this publishing house didn't read it before clicking 'OK'. They found themselves with a lot of computers incapable of doing what they wanted them to do, and an awful lot of suddenly missing data. Let this be a lesson. Could be worse: they might have been operating a nuclear facility. Buns in the oven - online Some of you may think that human reproduction is a fairly straightforward process.

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In fact, we personally know several people who've found it sur-prisingly so. Apparently, though, some people find the whole thing rather difficult and complicated. The difficulty mainly arises for those women who are 'trying' to get pregnant.

There's endless calculation, marking of calendars, and (without going into too much detail) mucus is involved. A new service offered by a German Web site frees women from all the tiring monitoring.

Simply register at www.zappybaby.de, fill in a few details, and you'll receive a mobile phone call, or an e-mail, to let you know when 'the best five days for love' have begun. Better yet, you can have these messages sent to your partner, in one of the less-subtle courting techniques we've yet heard of. Who says romance is dead? And whatever happened to 'if at first you don't succeed.'

Our main regret is that we can't read German. We'd love to know what it says on the Web site under 'Tips and Tricks'. Pull the other one The person in this picture is whispering to herself whilst sticking her finger in her ear. Some strange psychosis, you presume? No, in fact, it is the very latest thing in mobile communications technology.

Developed by a Dutch firm called NTT DoCoMo, this is a wafer-thin mobile telephone you wear as a wristband. When a call comes in, it vibrates gently, and the wearer taps his or her fingers to answer it.

Then they stick their finger in their ear, and the sound vibrations from the phone are carried by the bones of their hand into the ear. When speaking into the phone, you must use a low voice, since this aids in the conduction of vibrations back to the phone (apparently). The inventor believes the idea hasn't taken off because people aren't comfortable with wearable technology yet. We have another theory: who wants waxy fingertips? Million-dollar car space The garage in this photograph sold recently for $US1.7 million dollars (at the current exchange rate at the time of printing, this represents most of the money in Australia).

Why so expensive? Close to shops and transport? Gold mine underneath? None of the above, actually. What's more, it's something of a fixer-upper. The reason for the high price is that this is THE garage after which the phrase 'garage start-up' was coined. There have been literally thousands of companies started in garages by young entrepreneurs hoping to hit it big, but this was the very first one.

This garage was the one where, in 1938, young William Packard and David Hewlett first started tinkering with electronics. With $US538 in capital investment and an idea about a device to test sound equipment, they started a company which has since grown to some $US42 billion in annual revenue.

History doesn't record exactly when Hewlett-Packard left the garage, at 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto (or at least we couldn't find it on any Web sites), but apparently the two founders weren't unhappy to see the back of it. When it was designated California Historical Landmark #976 in 1989, Hewlett lamented, 'now they can't tear it down'.

The buyer of the historic property is, of course, HP itself, hoping to regain some of its forgotten youth. Or at least, we think that's the reason. It could be a precursor to the largest corporate downsizing in history.

A carmaker can’t buy this kind of publicity at any price. In 1963, a humble Volkswagen Beetle was the first production automobile to be successfully used in Antarctica. Here’s the story.

The little Bug’s official name was Antarctica 1, but the scientists at Mawson Station, Australia’s remote research station inside the Antarctic Circle, called it the “red rerror.” In a truly brilliant marketing stroke, Volkswagen of Australia provided the 1963 Beetle to ANARE, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. Assembled at the Clayton VW plant just southeast of Melbourne, the red bug was stock except for a large roof rack and a set of tire chains sometimes fitted at all four corners. In the bitterly cold polar conditions, the little Bug’s air-cooled engine proved to be impervious to the minus-60 degrees F temperatures, while the tight body construction protected the explorers from the driving snow and 120 mph winds. Holding its own against sled teams and expensive tracked vehicles, the Beetle proved so effective that a succession of VWs were used by the Australian research team through 1969, and naturally, provided the automaker with a major PR victory. Meanwhile, the original red terror was sent back home and, it is said, was the very same Beetle that won Australia’s famed BP Rally in 1964. This 1963 film tells the story of the red Volkswagen’s Antarctic adventure. The VW Beatle was an amazing automobile.

We owned a pair of virtually identical 1963 Karman Convertibles purchased new at Costello VW of Council Bluffs, Iowa. One of the two had a problem with a soft camshaft, repaired by the dealer under warranty.

Later members of our family owned other VW units including a blue 1973 Baja Super Beatle, a black 1974 Super Beatle, a Sumatra Green 1974 Super Beatle and a red 1974 SB. We ended our VW days with a metallic gold 1976 SB with sunroof and fuel injection, the latter of which proved to be not too reliable, especially in cold weather conditions. Novak VW in Omaha, Nebraska was our later excellent dealer. Oh, yes, we also had a 1972 Super Beatle convertible. I am not certain of the accuracy of the model years above but we had a very excellent experience with the venerable VW bugs. Simple times long gone. Thanks to Mac’s Motor City Garage for this fascinating post.

I have always had very good luck with VW’s. I bought a 65 111 ( standard model never imported to the states ) in 1968 and still have it. It is also a numbers matching car with nearly 200,000 kilometers on the clock. I rebuilt the engine at 120,000 km and painted it in my driveway in 1973, it still has it’s original deluxe bumpers with original chrome ( it was built with those bumpers to get through U.S. Customs ( bumper height requirement).

I just drove it on Wednesday and even though temps were in the 40’s the heater kept me quite toasty. Click on the link to see; In 1974 I bought a 64 113 ( U.S. Deluxe model ) from it’s original owner.

The car had about 75K on the clock, painted it in my driveway in 1978 and drove it to 165,000 miles before I rebuilt the engine in 2012. Being a former VW line mechanic and Unit Repair mechanic ( engines and transaxles) I also have this car too after all these years I just love these cars that run like little Swiss watches. The 64 113 below; As for the Antarctica 1 car, I was not surprised that it received northern European cold treatment, however I was surprised that the car did NOT come with the optional gas heater that a lot of European cars had. FYI, in early production 1963 VW redesigned the heater system to the fresh air type that have efficient heat exchangers and eliminate exhaust fumes to get into the cabin which plagued the early cars as well as Corvair and some other cars too.

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VW “Bugs” never impressed me until my wife and I picked up a brand new Karmann Ghia convertible for an American friend at the factory in Osnabrueck, Germany in May, 1967. We had the use of it for our 3500 mile tour through ten countries in western Europe.

By the time we shipped the car back to the US at the end of our month-long vacation, I had become a real “Bug” booster. Put that little 53hp car in second gear and it would go anywhere.

It proved itself valiantly as we climbed and descended through hairpin turns in several areas of the Alps and other mountainous terrain that we encountered including snow covered roads at the higher elevations. Since most Karmann Ghias were exported at that time, ours always drew an admiring crowd of locals whenever it was parked, Part of the “In Europe” delivery program from VW for Americans included shipping your car back to the States. We dropped our car at the shipper’s office in Brussels on a Friday afternoon and two weeks later it was off-loaded at a dock in Detroit. On several subsequent foreign trips – Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, Rio de Janeiro and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – I always requested a VW “Beetle” from the car rental agency. As for the “heater” remarks by other commenters,1 degree above ambient was being very generous! BTW I’m a GM retiree.