Archive for July, 2005

As a short follow-up to my obligatory ‘should I get a Mac’ post, here’s an update.

I got bored waiting for what will (when it comes) be a tiny, tiny update to the iBook line. I’d hoped for a CoreImage supporting graphics chip, but I’ve waited two months and further waiting no-longer seems worth it for [...]

As Colly is all too aware, I am something of a Super Furry Animals nutjob. It’s a love I share with my brother Nathan and my Dad and we make a habit of attending SFA gigs together whenever we can. They’re the first band I ever saw live and they’ve never disappointed me.

Obviously Thursday was [...]

Just a small post. Anyone who’s keeping track of today’s ongoing terrorist events in London may be interested in watching the following links:

BBC News ‘London Explosions’ in depth
Technorati tagged with ‘London Bomb’
Flickr tagged ‘London’ and ‘Bomb’

There’s also Joo Pedro Gonalves’ excellent map of the explosion locations, linked into Google maps. You can find that at [...]

Windows has a ghastly love for prefixing the word ‘My’ to the names of various folders. It’s a pain to type and it’s unpleasant to read. You can, of course, rename most of these in the usual Windows way. On my systems, ‘My Computer’ quickly becomes ‘Computer’ and ‘My’ is culled from all the other [...]

I’ve been making a bit of an effort in recent entries to start adding a related image to my posts. Obviously my redesign is a way off, but I’ve found that they do serve to brighten the place up a bit. It’s also helping to alleviate some of my ‘colour block’ I spoke of recently.

The [...]