Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jun 29th, 2009
The Princess is about to leave for an au pair job in Turkey and needs a laptop for Email Web browsing “Facebooking” Transfering photographs from her phone Instant messaging to MSN friends Watching DVDs Skype No problem I thought. Your mother’s old laptop will do fine. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 22nd, 2009
Twenty five years ago today Virgin Atlantic sent its first flight across the Atlantic. This commercial has been running on British TV for some months but, as I rarely see television advertisements, I didn’t see it until I happened to record a programme about the miners’ strike this past weekend and this commercial came at [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 17th, 2009
I winced a little when I read Mike Tomasky’s gushing commentary about Obama looking at, no, contemplating a Kandinsky in Paris …. because, he said, you couldn’t imagine George Bush doing it in a bajillion years and wasn’t it wonderful to have a president who wasn’t embarrassing overseas. Following the link in the comments I [...]
I’ve been following events in Iran on the Daily Dish and elsewhere and wondering what citizens can do (governments, of course, should do nothing, that would be interference and probably counterproductive). I sent this link about setting up a proxy to some of my Iranian friends and said that I’d be willing to help. What [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 16th, 2009
I have used a TiddlyFolio, an example of a TiddlyWiki, to manage my passwords for the last year and half or so. In the process of setting up a new PC, my Lenovo X200 laptop, I came across LastPass, a Firefox application for managing passwords and synchronizing them securely across PCs. At first it seems [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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