Archive for August, 2007
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007So, it’s late (around midnight) and as I’m on holiday I’ve had a few beers and have been surfing around. Cruising Facebook, as you do, I came across a group called “I secretly want to punch slow walking people…“; fits me to a T, because I’m tall and EVERYONE walks too slowly for my liking. [...]
Open Office and NeoOffice
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007A while ago, I wrote a post about my attempt to use Open Office to replace Microsoft Office, in advance of moving from a PC laptop to an iMac. I was looking for an open source alternative to Microsoft, as I couldn’t afford to re-buy all my old software.
On the whole, Open Office was [...]
Brief notes
Thursday, August 23rd, 20071. You’ve got to feel sorry for Paul Robinson after last night’s England vs. Germany match. He got caught out by a cross that turned into a shot that turned into a goal and this morning he’s got David James leaping to his defence. That’s David James, possibly the worst goalkeeper the English national side [...]
At the risk of getting sued
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007I’m a bit of a feed-reader and one of the ones I subscribe to is Slashdot. I don’t read all the articles, but will normally check out anything that has a good headline. So “Science blogger sued for unfavourable review” was always going to get read.
Now, I don’t profess to being anything of a scientist [...]
Smoking - The Book
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Well, I finally finished reading “Slow Burn” by Don Oakley. Normally, I wouldn’t write a whole post about a book, I’d just update my “What I’m reading” page, but I think this one deserves as bit more.
First off is a warning; this book is a chore. It’s about 600 pages of quite factual stuff that [...]