iPod Classic Verdict (so far)
[reading:Terry Pratchett, "Making Money"] By dint of transferring many gigabytes of MP3 files from my Powerbook to my PC, I managed to get my new iPod working. Well, sort of. Compared to my old 30GB...
View ArticleEnd of Another Era
[reading:George R. R. Martin, "Armageddon Rag"; recently Christine Denniston, "The Meaning of Tango"] End of another era: I finally got around to selling my darkroomgear. A shame in some...
View ArticleDoh
[reading:Barbara Hambly, "Renfield"] Note to self: when replacing an inner tube because of a puncture, check whether the outer tyre still has whatever caused the puncture in the first place embedded....
View ArticleDebugger Translation
After having to use three different debuggers in two days, I got around to producing a debugger translation table for future reference.
View ArticleiPod Classic Verdict (continued)
Now that I've upgraded my laptop, I've shifted the iPod back into Mac mode which means I can try out a couple more features. Calendar The calendar only seems to have a month view (which is too small;...
View ArticleDe Facto to De Jure
[reading:Alastair Reynolds, "Galactic North"; recently Scott Lynch, "Red Seas Under Red Skies", Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee, "On Intelligence"]
View ArticleO for Oxygen, 0 for Zero
[reading:Bjørn Lomborg, "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming"; recently Charles Stross, "The Jennifer Morgue"] Shocking. The reporting of science in the media has always...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner?
[reading:Gerard Taylor, "Capoeira 100"]Previously, previously elsewhere.
View ArticleParanoia
[reading:Warren Ellis, "Crooked Little Vein"] Apparently you can never be paranoid enough. My backup system for the laptop was one on-site external hard disk for Time Machineone offsite backup on the...
View ArticleGenius
Well, my laptop is now in for repair, and I've got a new iPod. After the crash, the iPod demanded to be restored from iTunes, and continued to demand this even after I'd restored it a dozen or so...
View ArticleBack to Normality
[reading:Richard Kaye, "The Mathematics of Logic: A Guide to Completeness Theorems and their Applications"] So my laptop is back, and the Time Machine restore has gone smoothly (mostly), and I now...
View ArticlePicture Sale
[reading:Yannis Haralambous, "Fonts and Encodings"; recently Joss Whedon, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home"] Apparently I (sort of) sold my first picture last week, which was a framed print...
View ArticleRemote Reset
[reading:Neil Gaiman, "Eternals"] Someone at work was complaining the other week about the difficulties of testing with the OSE board. The board needs to have the reset button pressed after each test,...
View ArticleBack /home
[reading:Iain Banks, "The Steep Approach to Garbadale"] After a long break, I've just reinstated Linux as an OS on one of my machines. I was tempted to go back to Slackware, which I used from 1993 to...
View ArticleKen acquires restraint (for some unfathomable reason)
[reading:Mary Gentle, "Ilario: The Lion's Eye"; recently Robert Harris, "Imperium"] Imagine my surprise. Unlike every other year, this year's hike in the GLA part of my council tax bill is below...
View ArticleAt the Zoo
[reading:St. Clair, John, "Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine"] The plus side of going to the zoo: The slightly more disconcerting side: But someone didn't seem that impressed (he was more...
View ArticleProgrammed Obsolescence Bug
[reading:Donald Knuth, "Digital Typography"; recently Neil Gaiman, "M is for Magic"; Neil Gaiman, "Odd and the Frost Giants"; Atul Gawande, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"] We had a new...
View Article--work-properly
[reading:Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue, "The Royal Road to Card Magic (revised edition)"; recently Henning Nelms, "Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers"] Today's --work-properly option:...
View ArticleSpine: Still Evil
[reading:Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Sharing Knife: Passage"; recently Joe Abercrombie, "The Blade Itself", Richard Morgan, "Black Man", Alastair Reynolds, "The Prefect"]The spine is evil. Still....
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