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You just can’t beat that Dell service
It’s amazing how right Apple gets it when it gets it right :-)
I’ve been brewing vitriol about my iBook…
Like more specifically how the video card seems to have died one month out of warrantee (grrr). While it is almost amusing how entirely disabled I’ve been since loosing the little thing, I thought y’all might be a...
CU-1
And while I’m posting, I just wanted to add that after almost two years of me speaking not a word of English to her, little CU-1 has finally starting saying a few words of French…
Blason?
So I was reading this blog and the woman behind it had a coat of arms on her contact page. This coat of arms was created by some crazy enthusiast who is carrying on the lions rampant, balls bezant argent and c. He...
Re -- you did know about this, didn’t you?
The ever helpful Mr Chris Carline wrote to me yesterday to remind me of the good old fashionned way of getting one’s site listed on a search engine. When was the last time you heard the phrase “search engine regis...
What’s the deal with Google?
As I mentioned earlier, James has joined the ranks of the online ranters;-)
Copying files off your iPod
Just thought I’d mention that the music files on your iPod are not hidden or copy protected. To download them, you can use the terminal to navigate to the right folder, and then issue a “ditto -rsrc” to copy them ...
Late, as ever
Found this on Billy’s iPod (I can’t believe I hadn’t heard this before–have spent the last hour laughing out loud)
VNC on Symbian phones
Steve Allam is a maniac who has ported the VNC client to the Symbian os (P800 screenshot) which is both completely pointless and very very cool :-)
Sola, perdutta abbandonata
Other sopranos only sing ‘Vessi d’arte’ in Tosca. Only Callas talks to God.
Sex and death
Nick and I took CU-1 to see the Turner Prize show at the Tate yesterday. Much fun was had all around, in particular by winding up guards by pulling on exhibit ropes and by attempting to eat the Chapmans’ worms (wh...
Tea and shill bidding
Am sitting here of a Thursday afternoon listening to the conversation at the Scarlet tea party happening in the adjoining desk-space. I don’t know when people stopped talking about sex, real-estate or even the wea...
Invaluable
Cool, well written and very useful. If you’re as in the dark as I am with RegEx patterns, this will help:
More fun with timesaving
Don’t know if this was always the case and I just missed it, but the new version of photoshop has a nice refinement to the “Hue/Saturation” dialogue. When you click on “colorize”, the hue you start with is based o...
Orange
My struggle with France-Telecom continues apace. A couple of people expressed an interest in seeing the whole correspondence. I’ll post links to the files here once the dust has settled and we have some sort of re...
Interaction design?
A related post (poor blog form but heh…) which struck me as I have the same problem explaining what exactly I do for a living.
Photoshop
I’ve loved Photoshop since I first played with version 2.5–it did stuff you could only do at expensive post-production facilities on an old all-in-one Performa. Version three came along and wow, layers. Before you...
There is something magic
About finally finding a bug and sending it off to the place from whence non puede salir.
Can you say ‘disconnect’?
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A tiny, empty bubble
So about a month ago we had a miscarriage. We were going to have a second child and then we weren’t. Say it like that and it’s quite simple really.
64.94.110.11
Verisign, believe it or not, has actually managed to find a further way to mess up the internet. This is verging on comedy–what do these guys do all day? Anyway, here’s a petition site: http://www.petitiononline.c...
Superdad
Sitting in the Office working on a new site design and it just occurred to me that I’m doing three people’s jobs in a four day week and being an available and supportive superdad in the hours in between.
Clamping
So I have this recurring fantasy where I design a simple 12 volt grinding tool using a starter motor with a ferrous metal cutting wheel bolted to the axle. In my dream I have long, coiled, power lead from the moto...
Nude fat guy
Mark from Bristol has pointed out to me that there’s a link on the scrapbook that can be read in such a way as to give access to nudie pics of a fat hairy guy in the bath (me). I hope he hasn’t also written down m...
about the Lebowski Generator etc.
This, from Hanan Levin a week ago and not sure what to do about it…
CU-1
Funny taking her back to the hospital where she was born, kind of a return to the womb (that word should so totally have two ‘o’s)… She was there with Nick from 15:00 to 23:30 yesterday. When I got there Nick was ...
CU-1’s first X-ray
CU-1’s been running around the Royal Free’s pediatric A&E for most of the afternoon. I’m stuck at work, so Nick’s had to deal on her own. As of 20:00 CU-1 had had her first X-ray and was waiting for results.