Archive > October 2006

Pain

Ouch!
For some unknown reason my back has decided that it doesn’t like me very much.
I woke up this morning (dum dum de dum), sat up in bed, sneezed and fell over.
I made it into work by the grace of ibuprofen and discovered that 99% of all the islands’s roads need resurfacing.
If anybody wants me I’ll [...]

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Thinking Ubuntu

With the release of Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) and a successful install on the media box, I’ve been giving more and more thought to migrating the laptop (15“ Powerbook 1.67GHz) completely. I’ve so far managed to resolve the main show stopper issues (i.e. the trackpad response speed, the airport actually working) but still have a couple [...]

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Pirates and Pumpkins … Yarr!

How cool is this?
Admittedly I’m getting a bit bored of MAKE: and their constant stream of pumpkin mods but this one is just brilliant.

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Let’s Get Retro

There’s something about games that are utterly simple in concept and graphical implementation and yet capture the attention of the player far more completely than the whizzy graphics of the latest console movie tie in. Of course, under the hood, these simple games probably use as much processing power as any other but it’s the [...]

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Firefox 2 - Final! Wait for It… NOW!

Ok, you can go grab it now!

Oops! It seems that FF2 isn’t officially released yet. We’ll have to wait until later today I think but please only download from the Mozilla.com home-page.
One thing I will say though, even though I can appreciate the complexity of releasing a piece of software that has such a high [...]

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