Month: May 2008

Internet Card Fraud

Ok, so a couple of weeks ago, some unscrupulous ‘tard nicked a couple of hundred quid out of our bank account and blew it in an online casino. Which leaves us to do all the legwork making and chasing a fraud claim – frankly, it’s a pain in the neck.  Well, it just so happens

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Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (DS)

Another run through. Picked up my shiny +4 katana from the warehouse and give it yet another upgrade then dropped it off in preparation for some future über run. I’m on the mountaintop again, after getting past the incredibly annoying evil soldier. Best way to deal with him, as it happens, is to have a

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Guhh….

$COW-ORKER: John, my phone’s not working. I was speaking to someone and it went dead. Me: Is it plugged in? $COW-ORKER: Of course it’s plugged in. I was speaking to someone on it! Me: But is it plugged in? $COW-ORKER: Well obviously it’s plugged in because I was able to make a call before it

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Time Machine

Well, as most of you will know already, I got a nice shiny MacBook a week or two ago. I haven’t really said much on here because I tend to turn into a dribbling fanatic when talking about macs, and it upsets my PC-bound wife. But I have to talk about Time Machine. I’ve no

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ESX needs a Mac client.

Or at the very least a platform independant one. I have a few ESX servers at work, running all kinds of virtual machines, but in order to administer the server I need to use the Vmware Infrastructure client – which is windows only. Which is annoying.

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