Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Oct 30th, 2009
First impressions of two upgrades:
Windows 7 Professional
After my completely unsuccessful Windows 7 upgrade of a Vista Media Center PC (last post) I tried again with my Lenovo X200 laptop.
This was an altogether more satisfactory experience, eventually — I’m posting this using Windows 7.
I couldn’ t use one of my discounted Windows 7 upgrades on the [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2009
On paper we should be good candidates for Windows 7:
My desktop PC (Vista Ultimate)
My laptop PC (Vista Business)
Wife’s laptop (Vista Home Premium)
Daughter’s laptop (Vista Home Premium)
Media Center PC (Vista Ultimate)
(In addition, I run some Ubuntu on some machines — a netbook, a server and a desktop.)
The upgrade pricing, especially for anyone using Vista Ultimate, is [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 22nd, 2009
I don’t think I can fit this in anytime soon but I’ll add it to the skim on contact list: I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man’s Adventures With The Last Republicans.
It’s just another story of the meeja being hoaxed.
Posted in Misc on Oct 20th, 2009
The US Chamber of Commerce is one of those organisations that has been so recalictrant on climate change that companies have started to leave it in disgust, with Apple being the latest high profile defection.
I was mildly amused to see the Chamber punked today with a press conference at which they purportedly recanted. It was [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 10th, 2009
The New York Times has a wonderful collection of photographs with voiceovers here, documenting in their own words the lives of some its inhabitants. The photographs, in black and white, are fabulously evocative; the people as ecelectic as I found them.
New York and photography entered my consciousness at the same time, along with iconic images [...]
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