Ha!
deKay thinks he’s being clever by running a spectrum emulator under wine on Mac OSX. Except he’s not being clever at all, because my dashboard widget STILL wins.
Category: Geekery
Mac Envy
My lovely lady wife has Mac Envy. It’s a terrible thing to see. She was wrestling with MS Office this morning and was practically turning purple. So, I’ve been commanded to “Get Her A Mac”. Thing is, we’ve been stuck with the PeeCee for over a year now and she’d kinda got used to the
I’ve gone all creative!
Oh yes I have – thanks to this site, I’ve just spent an hour or so making the most awesome everlasting wallet out of duck tape (or duct tape, for our American readers). So once again, my firm belief that the whole universe is held together by duct tape is confirmed. Not only that, but
Move over GladOS
For all those wierdos out there who have the closing song from Portal stuck in their head, prepare to have it replaced.
Meanwhile, on my other machine
So, you know how it is. You have a CD collection going back god knows how many years, you buy some tracks from amazon or itunes, you have the whole lot ripped on your PC to stick on your portable device. And then you realise you have over sixty gigabytes of music, most of which
KMyMoney – Update
After a fairly lengthy compile (hey, it’s a KDE app) I had 99% of my concerns addressed as soon as the application booted. Right there, on the home page, is exactly the information I was looking for – not just my current balances, but what they’ll be in 5,10, 40, etc days. I quick rummage
KMyMoney
One of the few things that keeps a windows VM lying around for me is Microsoft Money. It’s one of the few applications that Microsoft have actually made a pretty good job of. My judgment of this, though, is pretty superficial. Money provides a nice pretty cash-flow graph that lets you see, at a glance,
BT Poked in the Eye-O-Sauron
Well, according to El Reg, BT have been Baaaaaaad Monkeys and have finally owned up that they carried out secret tests of the Phorm system they’ve “not decided to use” well over a year ago. Without telling the people whose traffic they intercepted. Something tells me they’re going to get a little bit sued. Full
WE’Z IN UR ISP LOOKIN AT UR LOGZ
Well, at least BT are straight up about it. They replied saying “we don’t know anything yet, but when we do we’ll let you know.” Which is better than my mate RedSmartie got. He mailed Virgin pretty much the standard letter I put in my previous posting and in reply recieved a bunch of waffle
Eye-O-Sauron style web intercepts.
If you’re a customer of BT, Virgin, or Carphone Warehouse, the chances are you’re going to see a change in your Ts and Cs at some point this year. That’s because these ISPs are planning to contract the services of an AdWare company called Phorm to monitor every bit of web browsing you do in