Regular readers of this blog (are there any?) will have noticed that I’ve finally ditched the “green variant on the default WordPress theme” in favour of a “green variant on the default Drupal theme”. I’ve always thought the default Drupal …
Read moreToday’s Life Lesson
If you find a Wagon Wheel at the back of your office drawer, with a Best Before date of 2003, despite it appearing to be perfectly fresh, under no circumstances should you actually try biting into it. Not only was …
Read moreOkami
I finished playing Okami on my Wii last night. Beautiful graphics, great gameplay (even if the Wii controller made it a little hard to consistently draw the brush strokes), and thoroughly recommended if you like that sort of game. I’ve …
Read moreRobert, ask Damon how it’s done
A while back I posted about my disappointment after going to see a gig by The Cure in which they played hardly any of their hits. Yesterday I went to see Blur in Hyde Park, in a concert that really …
Read moreFirefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 was officially released yesterday. If you’re already running Firefox 3 you should get prompted to upgrade in the next few days – but if you want to expedite matters you can choose “Check for Updates…” from the Help …
Read moreA Viewer’s Contract
In my previous post I lamented the annual round of TV show cancellations, leaving plotlines unfinished and cliffhangers unresolved. But is there actually anything that can be done about this? I think one of the big problems is that we …
Read moreTo be (dis)continued…
Consider how you would feel if you bought a book from a bookshop and found that the last chapter was missing. Or if you’d been reading a series of books, and the last one was never released. Of course no …
Read moreYet again Microsoft miss the point
I can easily write a web page using standard HTML and CSS and have it display correctly on every major web browser… except Internet Explorer. I can even throw in some advanced code in the form of SVG, canvas and …
Read moreDell discontinues the Mini 9
Typical. Just as I’ve finished writing a few entries espousing the benefits of the Dell Mini 9, Dell decide to discontinue it 🙁 Dell’s closest replacement is the Mini 10v. This has a lower price point than the Mini 9 …
Read moreWindows 7 Starter Edition
A while ago Microsoft announced the various different versions of Windows 7 that would be available, including the Starter Edition which would impose a limit of three concurrent applications. At the time I wrote a few words about the number …
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