I’ve not long finished reading Shadowmagic by John Lenahan - it was free on the iTunes Store at some point in the past but I can’t remember whether it was a Starbucks promo or if it was just the free book of the week. It’s got magic and plenty of humour and I …
A couple of friends mentioned they were having a look at http://www.digitalocean.com/ as a VPS provider so I thought I’d take a quick look myself. The signup process is painless, just an email address and a password required and you’re into a control panel that is …
After two years of not posting anything and letting my blog stagnate, I figured it was about time I started posting again. The first job was to update all the software and it seems Moveable Type (MT) has moved on considerably from the really old version that I was running. Since …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …