The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 3 November 2004 / John / 0
We’ve started to receive spam from removal firms. Literally the day after our house went on the market, the spam started arriving. One thing removal firms should know is that I will not reward companies who spam me by giving them business. I’m quite capable of organising a removal firm by myself, thank you very
Ramblings / 2 November 2004 / John / 0
Gaaaaah. Ok, so my exchange account at work has a shed-load of mail in it. Ideally, what I’d like to do is use e2sync (or similar) to synchronize my address book and calendar with .mac, allowing me to then sync with Apple Address Book and iCal at home. In order to do that, though, I
Ramblings / 1 November 2004 / John / 0
Yikes! We were round at a friends halloween party last night. The house was stuffed full of about a million kids, all of whom were strung out on pepsi, sweeties and god knows what other dubious edibles. By the time we got them home, the kids were absolutely manic – wee darting eyes. Needless to
Ramblings / 30 October 2004 / John / 0
Well, who would have thought it. Three days ’til the U.S. Elections, Bush and Kerry are neck and neck, and whaddaya know – that Bin Laden chap pops up again to give any wavering voters a good ol’ chill down the spine, just in case they were swithering about which way to vote. The cynic
Ramblings / 29 October 2004 / John / 0
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Are we raising a generation of ‘young loners’?: Television and computer games are creating a nation of young loners, a Mintel survey suggests. The survey found that more than two thirds of children spend most of their time alone rather than playing with friends Hardly surprising really –
Ramblings / 29 October 2004 / John / 0
“Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses, a security firm has warned. The warning is being issued because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines.” Well, no surprises there. It begs the question – why do ATMs need to run a windowing system? There was no
Lunchtime Tales, Ramblings / 28 October 2004 / John / 0
Effie the elephant isn’t so much an elephant as an elefumble. The difficulty comes when her nasty habit becomes apparent. Effie is known to frequent the darker and danker regions of the less salubrious airports where she indulges in her passion for luggage snuffling. She snuffles luggage. In a word, she snorts trunks. With her
Dynamite Dan / 27 October 2004 / John / 0
Ok, I’ve done some more modifications to the full screen rendering setup so that my framework uses quartz hardware acceleration for the 2D stuff. A couple of the guys at RetroSpec have suggested I use OpenGL for all the 2D stuff but, given that I’m doing this for fun, I’m not entirely sure I want
Ramblings / 27 October 2004 / John / 0
Well it does, and there’s no escaping it. Two salaries till the big day and one salary is entirely spoken for by estate agency fees :-/ The boys are keen on an import Nintendo DS, but that aint going to leave much room to maneuver. We’ll see what happens. Our house went on the market