Blu-Ray Adopter
I finally bought a Blu-Ray player. I say “finally” as I’ve spent several months trying not to buy one… As an inveterate early adopter and fully diagnosed, unmedicated geek, I...
Banned Phrases of 2008
Remember my super previous posting “Banned Phrases of 2007”. Well this is exactly the same, but for 2008. DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE? By the way, what I...
When Macs Don’t Start Properly
What would you do if your Mac refused to start Finder and dropped you into Darwin, it’s UNIX command prompt? Panic? Scream? Swear? Or would you smugly take out your...
Tech Support
Ho, ho, ho – those silly end users eh? With their not-knowing-how-to-use-a-computer ways. How we, the technology cognoscenti, laugh at them and their ill-fitting pants. Latest in a long line...
MS Office goes Online. Sort of.
Microsoft are beta testing a document sharing and viewing service that integrates directly with your desktop version of Office. Office Live Workspace is sort of like Google Docs, except you have to...
Star Trek:Phase II – The First Professional Fan Film?
Fan produced Star Trek series Phase II may not be as fannish as it first seemed. A statement issued by director Marc Zicree suggests a level of professional involvement in...
Map of the Internet
When I look at this image, I wish it had been rendered and presented in a 3D format I could grab, rotate and zoom in on… There’s just too much...
OMG! FUTURESHOCK!
We develop a shorthand bag of semantic tricks over the years, don’t we? The one liners you keep coming back to ‘cos they worked well the first and second time....
My Top Ten Films…
A little while ago someone asked me what my top ten movies of all time ever were. After my brain had stopped boiling, I decided there was no way that...