“Secretary” Review
“One scoop of creamed potatoes. Four peas.” I’ve been very bad, and lied in the title. I’m not going to try and review it, so I need to be punished… […]
Month: November 2005
The snow is snowing…
It may have been a pretty grim weekend for trying to drive across Bodmin Moor, but when we drove west we didn’t hit the snow until Charmouth, only 5 miles […]
AppleJack
A mac enthusiast friend has pointed me at this totally excellent utility. It’s a life saver if you have an OS X problem and don’t have your installer disk handy, […]
V&A Podcasts
Visit the V&A via your iPod – see instructions here.
Doctor Who on Children In Need
If you missed it last night, as I did, see it here. Not an auspicious start for Tennant, I fear. Let’s hope “The Christmas Invasion” sees him leave up to […]
Google Maps
I’m a little late arriving at this party, but WOW! I’ve been swooping around Google’s hybrid map/satellite pictures, enjoying the search facilities and directions (with the dynamic zooming) and longing […]
GoogleX
Cool, OS X version of Google, with magnifier.
Bonfire Night
Commercial Square’s Firework Display, reflected in the Ouse, in this photo a friend of mine took. Well, it was the 400th anniversary, and a Saturday, but I’ve discovered a wonderful […]
Anti-pesto
If you don’t think a pest control company called anti-pesto is funny, or you don’t get a laugh out of this: you basically have no soul. I haven’t seen it […]
Stung!
I’ve never held with this idea that the internet is an unsafe place to use a credit card, because there’s always a danger of fraud whenver you make any transaction. […]
Squeezing Freeview
I’ve got my Linux PVR back up and running (in fact my sister has insisted I record her boyfriend’s appearance, in a false moustache, in the BBC’s Egypt programme). I’ve […]
The X-Files
When as a student I used to watch the X-Files I used to imagine that if I could watch every episode I might actually understand what was going on. A […]