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Geekery / May 7, 2008 / John / 0
Well, as most of you will know already, I got a nice shiny MacBook a week or two ago. I haven’t really said much on here because I tend to turn into a dribbling fanatic when talking about macs, and it upsets my PC-bound wife. But I have to talk about Time Machine. I’ve no
Geekery / April 22, 2008 / John / 2
My lovely lady wife has Mac Envy. It’s a terrible thing to see. She was wrestling with MS Office this morning and was practically turning purple. So, I’ve been commanded to “Get Her A Mac”. Thing is, we’ve been stuck with the PeeCee for over a year now and she’d kinda got used to the
Geekery / April 18, 2008 / John / 2
Oh yes I have – thanks to this site, I’ve just spent an hour or so making the most awesome everlasting wallet out of duck tape (or duct tape, for our American readers). So once again, my firm belief that the whole universe is held together by duct tape is confirmed. Not only that, but
Geekery / March 24, 2008 / John / 0
For all those wierdos out there who have the closing song from Portal stuck in their head, prepare to have it replaced.
Geekery / March 23, 2008 / John / 0
So, you know how it is. You have a CD collection going back god knows how many years, you buy some tracks from amazon or itunes, you have the whole lot ripped on your PC to stick on your portable device. And then you realise you have over sixty gigabytes of music, most of which
Geekery / March 22, 2008 / John / 1
After a fairly lengthy compile (hey, it’s a KDE app) I had 99% of my concerns addressed as soon as the application booted. Right there, on the home page, is exactly the information I was looking for – not just my current balances, but what they’ll be in 5,10, 40, etc days. I quick rummage
Geekery / March 22, 2008 / John / 0
One of the few things that keeps a windows VM lying around for me is Microsoft Money. It’s one of the few applications that Microsoft have actually made a pretty good job of. My judgment of this, though, is pretty superficial. Money provides a nice pretty cash-flow graph that lets you see, at a glance,
Geekery / March 17, 2008 / John / 0
Well, according to El Reg, BT have been Baaaaaaad Monkeys and have finally owned up that they carried out secret tests of the Phorm system they’ve “not decided to use” well over a year ago. Without telling the people whose traffic they intercepted. Something tells me they’re going to get a little bit sued. Full
Geekery / March 17, 2008 / John / 0
Well, at least BT are straight up about it. They replied saying “we don’t know anything yet, but when we do we’ll let you know.” Which is better than my mate RedSmartie got. He mailed Virgin pretty much the standard letter I put in my previous posting and in reply recieved a bunch of waffle