Month: March 2007

A new addition

No way! Nelefa.org has a pointless forum! It’s so called because I have no need whatsoever of a forum, but it’s fun nonetheless and is something cool to play with on a cold Spring morning. It’s linked from up the top there, so feel free to pop over, sign up, and join the surging crowds

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Magical Starsign (DS)

Many new developments – I ganked the big towery things that were giving me problems and thwarted a pirate plot before being given a not-very-subtle hint from a mystic called Twigadamas. Who is, well, a floating stick. Some of the humour in Magical Starsign is pretty obvious (like the way Twigadamas’ name caption keeps changing

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Me? A point-n-drool addict? NEVAR!

This is just shocking! I’m being accused of being a Microsofty from all quarters and it’s just plain wrong and evil! So, without further ado, the defence presents exhibit A: my mail and news programs. Ok, I’ll admit that SLRN is a bit of a cop-out, but it has some nice things that tin just

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Fickle Me – the Reprise

Apparently, our Red thinks my Desktop looks like Windoze. Anyone else agree? 🙂 He thinks I have a “Start Menu”. I think we all need to drop Mr Red a note to ask what that little menu on the top right of his Mac Desktop is for 😉

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Magical Starsign (DS)

What have I been doing? Well, loads as it happens. I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather so have taken the opportunity to have a couple of hours on the DS. With Magical Starsign being completely stylus driven, it means I can play it one handed with the DS resting on a surface which

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Fickle Me

After years of running Gnome at home and KDE at work, I’ve finally done a switcheroo and changed my home desktop. With version 3.5.5 (what I’m running with Ubuntu Edgy), it’s finally getting to be rather a nice desktop environment. As it comes, it can be a bit sluggish at times, but turning down the

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Game lose the plot.

Just spotted this story on UK resistance – apparently, Game are so desperate to sell at least one PS3 on launch day that they’re, well, making things up. Read for yourself: Game’s mind-control experiments.

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SQL Server Bloatware? Who Knew?

This is George, at work. Eight (count-em) 2.8GHz CPUs (not counting the three machines at the top), Forty Gigabytes of RAM, an 8 Gigabyte Solid State Disk (for the logs) and an insanely huge RAID-10 disk array at the bottom, attached via a dedicated fibre channel switch. All to run a database. On Windows. It’s

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Magical Starsign (DS)

Ok. So, I hunted down and defeated a Hermit Lab. Yes, that’s right, a labrador that lives in a shell. It had made off with the key to a lockbox containing batteries. Because the owner of the lockbox couldn’t power his furnace, he nicked the head of my robot to use instead. Anyway, with key

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Badly Written Search Engines

So, I was having a look through my web activity stats (as you do) to see why I’d had a sudden upsurge in traffic over the past few weeks. Imagine my complete surprise to discover that it’s because Microsoft are crap programmers! Who knew? So, my site – being largely content based – tends to

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