Monthly Archives: February 2006

Why Windows Vista doesn’t suck

Because it is Mac OS X … Seriously, I swore an oath when I bought my powerbook that I wouldn’t become a Mac vs Windows type but some of this list is just gigglesome Check out the Kernel, Audio, Direct … Continue reading

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Smoosh

N. A collection of thoughts squished together into a single post as the passing of time has produced too many to create separate posts. Been a busy couple of days with 3 projects in full swing, a load of fun … Continue reading

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My personal DNA

One of those personality thingies that, despite my best efforts to be truthful, gets me completely wrong. What’s interesting about this one is the method of entering your information. Uses some novel collection mechanisms to make a pretty dull quiz … Continue reading

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With a beep and a boop and a blip blip filb

It’s been a while since I last saw a “turn your computer’s day to day stats into music / noise” program. Indeed the last one was more than a little flaky and ran on Windows 95 … Sound of Traffic … Continue reading

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Amazon 2006 Comp – part one is over

Markiss has started his year’s worth of competitions and the first round (a return of Stair Dismount) has just finished. I came 4th out of 7 players so not too bad considering. I’ll need to pick up the pace though … Continue reading

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Happy Octopus

Happy Octopus Originally uploaded by Rob Dudley. Laugh? I nearly wet myself!

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Wedding Invite

My eldest cousin is getting married in May. It’s been in planning for almost 2 years but the official invites arrived a couple of days ago. Never normally one for all the chintz that goes with this kind of occasion … Continue reading

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Free stuff

Listable.com has a new list (funny that) of loads of open source / freeware apps for Windows. Some of them will be well known but there are a couple of gems lurking in there and the list is still growing … Continue reading

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2.5 New Games

I’ve been taking some time to try and find more games which I can play on the Mac. Having found a couple of really great ones (that happen to be cross platform!) I thought I’d share: Pogosticker From the mind … Continue reading

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Work your hours day

Not as relevent to me now as it was but back in the days of MegaComp unpaid overtime used to be a regular occurance: The TUC has launched a website designed to tackle the UK’s unpaid overtime culture. It says … Continue reading

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