Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Oct 29th, 2007
Is when your iPod music matches your mood and you have time and change for a cappuccino and you find, in a copy of The Times kindly left for your perusal, a perfectly delicious little article. A gem. Rummaging in the Times online, later, I find there’s another I hadn’t seen.
I am not a big [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
In the last week there has been a bit of a stink in the British media for and against killing badgers. That’s right, badgers. Not foxes.
Foxhunting, the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible, as Oscar Wilde called it, is still controversial and highly circumscribed. Badgers, however, are completely protected by law.
The nearest I’ve been to [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
I am writing this, a little reluctantly, using an impressive offline blogging tool called Microsoft Live Writer. My misgivings arise in part because I am unhappy with Microsoft’s attempts to bundle extra software and get it onto my computer. The installation for Live Writer offers first this
and then this list of additional software
Yes, I know [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 26th, 2007
If you’ve got a USB memory stick on your key ring here’s a useful and free “wiki wallet” application (open source) that runs in your web browser for recording passwords and other sensitive information.
Posted in Misc on Oct 24th, 2007
There is beginning to be a bit of a buzz about Ubuntu. The better it gets, the buzz as well as the product, the less likely it is that Microsoft will persuade Windows XP users to move to Vista. Vista is expensive, complex and unreliable and there are too many versions of it. And Office [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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