25 January 2010 ~ 9 Comments

Considering doing this whole blogging lark properly

The next sentence is going to cause a number of people to slap their own foreheads with their hands – perhaps the entire readership – you know, all six of you. I’m just warning you in advance so you don’t try and blame me for personal injury.
I’m considering buying a domain name and webspace to [...]

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12 November 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New Enterprise has Star Trek Nerd Army Mobilized

New Enterprise has Star Trek Nerd Army Mobilized

I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. Here’s the new Star Trek “Enterprise” (from the forthcoming movie);

… and here are some of the comments;
I am disappointed that Mr Abrams failed to stay true to the design of the Enterprise NCC-1701. Perhaps, he will impress those who don’t care about that sort of thing, but I [...]

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29 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New York Times in Trouble

Even though new media mouthpieces have been shouting for some time about the end of print newspapers, it still comes as quite a shock when perhaps the biggest name in print newspapers admits they are in huge trouble.
While being interviewed a year ago, the editor of the New York Times stated that there would be [...]

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22 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

ASUS EEE PC 1000H Unboxing

ASUS EEE PC 1000H Unboxing

The ASUS EEE PC 1000H arrived today from Amazon (via Pixmania), so this evening I set about unboxing it and installing all the software I will typically be using on it.
Enjoy!

The box the 1000H comes in is pretty small and light. The machine is held inside within cardboard padding. The box was shipped within another [...]

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04 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

More Thoughts on Starting Something

You may recall a month or so ago I mentioned about “starting something” once more on the internet, and wondered if anybody else was interested in helping.
In recent days I have been re-acquainting myself with “Joomla” – the open source content management system, and a pretty good platform to build dynamic content based websites upon. [...]

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29 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

The Secret Features of Windows 7

While skimming Ars Technica earlier this evening, I read with interest their piece about Microsoft going public with Windows 7 (read: successor to Vista) at the Professional Developers Conference next month, and it’s development being “secretive”.
There is no secret at all to Windows 7 and/or it’s feature set. It will have some more of the [...]

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19 September 2008 ~ 8 Comments

Building Something Insanely Great

I have been doing a little freelance work recently, and have been wondering about ploughing some of the money earned back into a new website. The obvious question therefore is what to build.
Once upon a time I was regarded by quite a few people around the interwebs as a “good developer”. Those skills still exist [...]

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09 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Shiny New iPod "Fat Wide" Nano

Shiny New iPod "Fat Wide" Nano

I’m guessing everybody has now seen the photos leaked onto the internet of the new iPod Nano that Apple will be announcing this afternoon.
The first I heard about it was from Kevin Rose on “This Week in Tech” a couple of weeks ago – he had been handed a couple of technical documents by a [...]

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09 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Thoughts on Vista

While having a break and a cup of coffee, I thought it might be interesting to relate the experience of a Windows Vista machine arriving at home – what I did, the decisions I made – for the benefit of others who might tread a similar path in months to come.

Machine booted into the usual [...]

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03 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Early Opinions of Google Chrome

I have been playing with Google Chrome throughout most of today (while not fighting fires with C#, SQL Server and K2), and thought it might be worth recording them for posterity.
For those who have been either living under a rock, or have some sort of life, “Google Chrome” is the long rumoured web browser from [...]

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