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I’ve just finished reading “Not dead enough” by Peter James. It’s a crime thriller set in Brighton and Hove in the UK, and has plenty of twists although a few of the events were obviously going to happen. It was a very good read though.
Although I use Safari for much of my browsing, I still use Firefox for a number of things. I find that playing Shartak with anything other than Firefox is painful because the Greasemonkey scripts for Shartak make it so much easier to find out where my character is. I also use …
It seems that when the firewall option is enabled (apparently it’s disabled by default) you can only run Skype once without reinstalling it. The second time you try, it bounces a couple of times and stops. A Skype forum thread about it can be found at …
Having upgraded to Leopard, I found that synergy2 wasn’t working. It’s an application that lets you control multiple machines from a single keyboard and mouse and I use it quite a lot at work. More information about Synergy2 can be found at …
Like most Apple users we pre-ordered a copy of Leopard and took delivery of it on the 26th October. I upgraded Tiger to Leopard that evening and despite the initial horror of having some fairly big changes to the UI, I’ve decided it’s not so bad. Something I …
I’ve been trying to check for updates on one of my CentOS machines using yum and got the following error. root:~# yum upgrade Loading “installonlyn” plugin Options Error: bad marshal data
We just got back from the MacLive Expo in London - it seemed smaller than last year although I could be mistaken. Here are some pictures of various parts of the expo. I.R.I.S make a number of OCR gadgets - pens that scan in text, business card readers, etc. Lori had a play with …
It’s nearly that time of year again - Talk Like A Pirate Day is this Wednesday, September 19th. To learn more, please use one of these links: International site UK site
I’ve just found out that it’s time to register for the London Mac Expo for this year. Seems it’s now called Mac Live Expo - more details can be found at http://www.macliveexpo.co.uk/
Just recently our fridge water filter needed replacing and because the recommended supplier (some place in Birmingham) was out of stock I decided to look around. After a bit of searching, I found this site -American Fridge Filters. They were about 20 pounds cheaper than the place …
Just recently I’ve been experimenting with VMWare Server on a Linux host and although it’s easy enough to use the console to manage it from a Windows PC, I normally only have my aging PowerBook to hand. Since there’s no proper OSX console application for VMWare …
Came across this tonight, I’ve seen lolcats before, but not the programming language lolcode. http://lolcode.com/
I’ve been reading Dragon by Clive Cussler - it’s a good book. Plenty of action and despite not having read any other “Dirk Pitt novels” (he’s one of the lead characters) it didn’t seem to matter at all and I was able to still get into the …
How’s this for a truly bizarre project? http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/ For me, this raises a few questions though, the first of which is Why? The second is WHY? I had a quick look through the site and in the legal bit it says there are basically very few laws …
I came across an interesting and very simple way to merge the contents of two hashrefs today. A hash is made up of pairs - a key and a corresponding value. As an example, the following can be pasted into a shell session on most machines that have perl installed. perl …
Before you start complaining, I didn’t go crazy and add a dodgy midi track to the Shartak website. I stumbled across a forum thread this evening and apparently Shartak players are forming their own record label. Once finished, the Heads Down tracks will be available at a …
I finally got around to switching to a new mobile phone and decided to try a Windows Pocket PC phone instead of the more traditional style. It works pretty well most of the time, but it has crashed once already in the couple of weeks that I’ve had it.