Archive for January, 2008
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Friday, January 25th, 2008If you were watching closely, you’ll notice that I missed posting on 23 January; this was because I was just too busy trying to work out how to use the damn shopping cart software properly. That’s why you got two posts yesterday, to sort of make up for it. I’ll also try and give you [...]
More on software
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Since buying the iMac, I’ve been using a lot of different software packages to get various things done - lots of different newsreaders, office applicatons, image manipulators, browsers and so on - and so far have not had to buy a single piece of software; the concepts of open source, donationware and freeware are ones [...]
Not so splendid isolation
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Did you see Horizon on Tuesday night? If you didn’t catch it, check it out while you can on the BBC iPlayer; it’s the most interesting (and disturbing) programme I’ve seen for quite some time.
Interesting because of the basic premise; six people volunteered to be shut away in solitary confinement and sensory deprivation for 48 [...]
Open source software
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Since buying my iMac, I’ve become a big fan of open source software - mainly because all of the software I’d want to buy is too damn expensive, so if there’s a cheaper alternative out there I’m in. I changed from MS Office to NeoOffice (an development of OpenOffice) and all the little bits and [...]
The state of your health
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008From my BlogSpot blog: Without wanting to get too political about it, now is not a good time to get sick in the UK. Wards have been closed in hospitals across the country because of norovirus, and MRSA and other ’superbugs’ are still not under control; plus if you pick the wrong hospital to go [...]
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