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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MOO Skype Cards

In addition to their partnership with Flickr, mini card makers Moo have announced they are providing Moo Skype contact cards.
You can grab a free trial (10 card pack) by entering the promo code “freebie” at the above page.
I think these are likely to be more useful to me as my Flickr cards are limited by [...]

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All quiet

It’s really quiet at the moment.
I’m the only one in the little office at the moment and whilst I have a load of work to be getting on with I’m also enjoying the following:

Turning the temperature on the air conditioning unit right down for lovely chilly goodness
Listening to the new Evanescesnescese album (it’s rather similar [...]

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Commute Contrast

As I’m back in the world of the gainfully employed I’m now back on a daily commute. It’s not massive (it can’t be – 9 x 5 people) but it still takes me through a range of different bits of the island.
Of course, at this time of year I’m way to busy concentrating on a) [...]

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Pong Revisited

I really like this new version of Pong. It allows you 2 player action and has some cracking particle physics to boot.
But easily the best feature is the ’spin’ you can now put on the puck. It makes it really easy to beat the computer and perfectly possible to score own goals
The only [...]

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What a difference a week makes

Last weekend was good.
This weekend was less good.
Saturday was completely wasted as it was spent watching Scrubs, BSG and Veronica Mars and generally lazing around in my dressing gown. I can’t really afford to do that for a whole day at the moment – there’s simply too much for me to be doing.
Petanque on Sunday [...]

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