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Monthly Archives: September 2004
Ubuntu
Decided last night that I would burn off the .ISO I download a couple of weeks ago, and install Ubuntu on my laptop over the Fedora install I tried the other week. Side note: There is nothing particularly wrong with … Continue reading
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In the news today
Well, when I say ‘the news’, I mean The Metro. Of hounds and men I’m constantly amazed by the furore over fox hunting in this country. I found it particularly ironic this morning to read of the demonstrators at the … Continue reading
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Things about football that make me mad
I decided that I hadn’t talked much about football for a while, so, to please our non-computery readers, here are some thoughts: Firstly, having just seen Liverpool beaten 1-0 by Olympiakos, I have to admit that we were rubbish. Probably … Continue reading
MDWatts
I posted about a month ago about the sad death of MDWatts, one of the guys from JustLinux. Well, one of the other mods on the site has spent a bit of time collating all of his replies into a … Continue reading
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It’s not about the money
In the course of my average (geeky) lifestyle, as well as my work with
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Stud problems?
Maybe it’s just me, but I reckon probably the most striking characteristics of this years football season so far has been the large number of players losing their footing, and slipping. Now, I know that the weather has maybe not … Continue reading
Grumpy… and hyper.
I’m (as you can guess by the title of the post) a bit on the grumpy side today. I’ve fallen behind with my writing, work is especially grim and difficulties are being had with people who should know better regarding … Continue reading
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RSS Feeds
For those of you who RSS feeds, I have discovered something you may find useful. WordPress supports individual feeds from the categories we have, and therefore you can filter out only the content you want. You can do this in … Continue reading
A Good Idea(TM)
Here’s a good idea for a passing hardware manufacturer: For a number of years keyboard manufacturers have been placing volume and/or media player control buttons on their fancier keyboards. Imagine it one step further – imagine that it has a … Continue reading
A Flawed Value Proposition
In the last couple of years, I’ve come across this a couple of times in the computing world. Let me explain. Let’s say that you are going out to buy some cheese. I’m a big fan of cheese, so I … Continue reading
Married Life: Day+…?
Right. I’ve been married for just over a month now and it’s time for an update. It’s no lie that living with someone (not just sharing their space but really living with them…) is stressful. There are loads of daft … Continue reading
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Software updates
Firefox 1.0 Preview Release I thought I would take a look at the Preview Release of Firefox 1.0, and thus far I have been very impressed. There are not many new features, but a couple of them really stand out: … Continue reading
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Trade Descriptions
I was wondering the other day whether, in this day and age, you could get away with describing something as ‘PC or Mac’ compatible, as Apple are currently doing on their iMac + iTunes adverts? Given that you can only … Continue reading
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Green Lantern
The Green Lantern is one of the most enduring and loved/hated characters of the DC Universe. Those wonderful (?) people at DC Comics have decided in their infinite wisdom to end the current series at issue 181 (Sept 2004) and … Continue reading
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The Most Embarrassing TV Moments, or something like that…
Or “The Greatest, Most Embarrassing Moments On TV Ever Until The Next Time”. This, a prime example of car-crash tv, was on Channel 5 late last night. Ruth and I stumbled upon it while checking the channels. It’s the worst … Continue reading
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Fedora Core 2
I had an interesting visit from one of the Sales Managers at RedHat at work last week. He spent the day talking about Linux in general, but obviously he spent a good amount of time explaining who RedHat were and … Continue reading
150 locations and counting…
Okay, after a brief hiatus at work (it’s been really busy this week, I’m actually having to work for my money) I’ve managed to push the number of locations in the adventure to 150. Hopefully this afternoon I’ll have a … Continue reading
Who shot first?
The debate over Lucas’ change to Star Wars in the Special Edition, whereby Greedo shoots at Han before Han kills him has caused much debate among fans. Dark Horse comics (who also publish Hellboy, IIRC) have an interesting comic take … Continue reading
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Don’t forget that it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day on September the 19th. Time to brush up on your pirate talk. mrBen
Some site difficulties
We have been experiencing some problems with our server, meaning that some pages have not been accessible – in fact, you might not even be reading this We apologise for the problems – we are working with the guys from … Continue reading
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