I've been using iTunes since getting my first iPod in late 2004, a first-gen gold-coloured 4GiB iPod mini that IBM sent me as a freebie for taking part in a Linux on PowerPC outreach programme. It required iTunes for Windows XP to be installed on my Dell Latitude to synchronise music from my laptop to […]
I know, I know, I haven't updated my blog in an absolute age, but I decided to give it a quick spring-clean (albeit towards the end of summer) and apply a very nice theme from Elmastudio . Hopefully nothing looks badly broken, but if it does, please let me know. In other news, blah blah […]
After reading some interesting stories of what life inside virtual worlds could be like in the future, I was inspired to do a bit of writing of my own from a different perspective on Second Life. Beep, beep. Beep, beep. Neuro slowly opened one eye, looking towards the red light blinking plaintively on his aging […]
2010 heralds my fifth decade on this planet (and my 3rd on the interwebs). A history lesson, although not necessarily in a completely chronological order, shall follow shortly for your delectation. For those impatient, tl:dr types: Got born. Got named. Got fed. Got schooled. Got laid. Got job. Got paid. Geeked out. Spent too much. […]
I got a letter addressed to "The Occupier" from Virgin Media this morning. It's the latest in many advertising missives that I'm convinced I'm only sent because someone has surveyed the street and spied my Sky minidish attached to my back wall. So this one I got this morning has listed ten reasons to switch […]
I have a cheap dedicated server running Ubuntu Linux — the 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" release — with Kimsufi , the budget arm of French hosting company OVH . All their Linux servers (and FreeBSD servers too, I think) are provisioned with their own custom, static kernel. This, they say, makes it "secure". It also […]
For the last couple of years, I've fallen more and more back in love with Macs. One of their foibles is that Apple have decided the standard British English, or UK, keyboard layout should not match that of every other computer manufacturer on the planet. Various characters are just in the wrong place, such as […]
It's Sonic Youth Week on iTunes to celebrate the release of their new album, The Eternal . It's a classic Sonic album, g'wan, give it a go, you'll love it as much as I do!
I've been playing about with OS X on a Dell Mini 9 netbook. A major hassle is that it only has 8GB of on-board disk space (albeit on a lovely silent SSD). I bought a 16GB Class 4 SDHC card to use for my home directory, but it turns out OS X only automatically mounts […]