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 moreMy prediction for Chrome OS
Since Google announced Chrome OS there have been lots of questions asked (and very few questions answered) about what hardware it will run on. They’ve listed the names of some hardware partners, but that’s about it. Will it be a …
Read moreGoogle Netbook OS
The tubes are buzzing with the news that Google plan to launch their own operating system – which actually seems to be a thin veneer over a Linux kernel, solely for the purpose of running their Chrome web browser. The …
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 moreToning down drop shadows in Firefox 3.5
One of the new additions to Firefox 3.5 is support for the CSS3 “text-shadow” rule as a means to add drop shadows to text. Ideally this would be used to add subtle shadows and glowing halos – but like any …
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 moreBloody changes
I went to give blood yesterday – something I’ve been doing every 4-6 months for the past few years. During all that time, I don’t think the procedure has remained quite the same for more than a single session. Every …
Read moreUbuntu costs 10 times as much in the UK as the US!
It would seem that due to the poor exchange rate, UK customers could end up paying up to 57% more for Windows 7 than US customers – and people buying in Euros could end up paying double. This is fairly …
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 …
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