It's Mac Expo time again
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/
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Fridge water filters
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 …
Using vmware server console on Mac OSX
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 …
Programming language that's a little bit different
Came across this tonight, I’ve seen lolcats before, but not the programming language lolcode. http://lolcode.com/
Reading: Dragon by Clive Cussler
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 …
Flying bananas
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 …
Merging two hashrefs in Perl
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 …
Shartak - now with added music
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 …
New mobile phone
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.
Optical Illusion
Just been sent a link to a rather neat optical illusion. http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-kettles.html Very clever.