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Geekery / 17 March 2008 / John / 0
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
Geekery / 12 March 2008 / John / 0
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
Books, Gaming News, Geekery, Ramblings / 5 March 2008 / John / 1
Gary Gygax, legendary co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died today at age 69. For three decades, his work has allowed children and adults alike to escape real-life and take on the persona of mighty warriors, haughty magic users and sneaky rogues. To a lot of people, it seems like the man did nothing
Geekery / 2 March 2008 / John / 0
Well, that turned out to be less a drama than expected. So, I put a gNewSense partition on my laptop last night and here’s how it panned out: Wireless: obviously, the card has a working driver as it’s been in the kernel for a while. What we don’t have, though, is the firmware – a
Geekery / 1 March 2008 / John / 1
I had a nasty shock the other day when I ran vrms and discovered that half the software I’m running isn’t actually free. This seems to have happened by stealth – partly by the insidious creeping nature of the words “Open Source” and partly by my own complacency. The first one – this page will
Ramblings / 23 February 2008 / John / 0
Almost got caught out by the brain monster this morning while standing waiting to pay for some sugar puffs. The “excuse” was – “Hey, I don’t want to be grumpy with the kids all weekend, why don’t I buy ten cigarettes to cover the weekend then I can get back to not-smoking on Monday?” Except,
Ramblings / 22 February 2008 / John / 0
9:34am Ended up going to bed early last night, feeling a bit rough and irritable. Much better today, though. The restlessness is quite annoying – before, if I was waiting for a job to finish or waiting for a kettle to boil or something, I’d go out and smoke. Now I just hover and fidget
Ramblings / 21 February 2008 / John / 2
9:44 am Or thereabouts. So, I’ve been up and smober for a couple of hours now and nothing seems to have dropped off yet. Last cigarette was at about 10pm last night so that’s nearly 12 hours (although counting sleeping hours is probably cheating). Doing alright though – I have the kind of empty, hungry
Ramblings / 20 February 2008 / John / 2
Why is it that stopping smoking is so difficult? I man, really – let’s have a think about it. It tastes horrible. It’s expensive. It makes you cough. It halves your life expectancy. It gives lots of revenue to the gubbermint. So really, it does nothing for you! So what is there to give up?
Game Diary / 19 February 2008 / John / 1
It begins…… again. I made the mistake of starting this back in February / March last year when, avid nelefans will remember, I was in the throes of many Castlevania games and Magical Starsign. And then Puzzle Quest came along. Anyhoo, I reckoned it was time to get back to it. Except, of course, I