Archive for April, 2004
Curious. I just stumbled across a reference to VeriChip, an implantable microchip used to store identification and used on humans. The article I read indicated it’s trial use by an expensive club in some foreign clime, where punters with the chip could buy food and drinks “with a wave of the hand” and No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Something interesting occurred to me last night. I have been aware for a while that my general productivity etc declines sharply when R is around, but I’ve only just realised why that is. When she’s around, I follow her about like a lost puppy. Sometimes I literally wander about the house after No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Last night didn’t go exactly as planned. I had wonderful intentions of not watching any television, doing some work on the computer, making myself dinner etc etc and if I achieved those goals then playing some Kotor. When I got home, I tried to begin some processes on the pc that would install No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Well, I loved digikam, especially the cosmetic changes in version 0.6.1 but the fact that it no longer supports subdirectories in the album / collection list makes it nigh unusable for our multi-gig photo library. Today however I found a bunch of alternatives, and finally one which looks as though it will do perfectly Related posts:blog move [ READ MORE ]
Argh! I just tried to update an earlier entry and clicked the wrong button. Being in the industry I’m in you’d think that was pretty well deserving of a boot to the head… I have a dark blue theme on my window manager (I run linux) and it causes me some odd No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Spent a bit of time yesterday cruising for interesting blogs etc and have come across a few gems – not to mention a pile of online writers resources, like market information, advice etc. I’ll filter through it and put a few links up – I think a lot of it will make good content No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Watched the film 28 days later last night – it’s fantastic. An amazingly well written story, and overall quite horrifying. They filmed it using digital cameras rather than film – which allowed them to operate and setup / break down much more rapidly, so they could get sections of london and the M1 Related posts:Those crazy, snot filled days… [ READ MORE ]
Wahey! I found a site for Interactive Fiction [wurb.com] which has all the old text adventures I used to play back on my first ever computer – including the ones I never got to finish! There was one called Red Planet, a fairly ordinary little game but I’d done well with it up Related posts:Dinner with friends [ READ MORE ]
Ok so I’m finally getting around to trying it properly. I’ve mucked about with it before, even compiled a couple of times but never gone the whole hog so to speak – this weekend I’m going to compile linux 2.6.5 and add it to grub to try booting with it. We’ll see if No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Grr more idiocy from this so-called Free Trade agreement between Australia and the US – now we’re letting them dictate copyright law to us, and then some. This can only signal bad things [slashdot.org] for Australia – as if censorship and IP law wasn’t dodgy enough in this country as it is… Tweet This Related posts:New Trade Free Computer Books Guilt-free Shinyness [ READ MORE ]