So, I'm busily procrastinating writing my dissertation. Nine days (deadline is the 30th) and at least 4000 words left to go, although word count isn't really that critical - but there's quite a lot of ground left to cover. On the other hand, lectures have ended (this is technically the Easter "vacation") so there's not really anything else to take ( Read more... )

Guess I'd better say something about Microcon, which was this weekend, several others already have ( Read more... )

So, I got that old PowerMac in that dumpster-diving adventure in the Physics building a while ago (see here), but all I could find out then was whether it would power up (it did, and gave a lovely Mac chime). Well, guess what I'm typing this on. I recently I gave in and bought a monitor adapter off eBay for £6.50 including shipping, and eventually ( Read more... )

I know the "holy crap, I haven't posted in a month" thing gets old, but... holy crap, I haven't posted in a month!

Well... I've had some exams. Won't go into those too much - I revised, I sat the exams, I haven't got results yet.

I've done the odd bit of driving around, it's still weird to have a car though. I've found some of comedyjim's recent posts ( Read more... )

Yep, I've just driven from Luxembourg to Exeter ( Read more... )

OK - should I just list this year's haul of presents? (Yes, it's just past midnight on Christmas eve, but we do the presents thing on the 24th in Germany, or rather, in German tradition.)

( Presents )

I just needed to print something to a printer I hadn't used with this Mac before. The printer is connected to an AirPort Express base station (which has a built-in USB port for printer sharing). I opened the document, clicked 'Print', and the printer I was looking for showed up (under the heading 'Bonjour printers') in the list of available devices ( Read more... )

In this week's episode: My PC's hard drive starts to flake, and my Palm dies overnight, causing me to miss a lecture because I was using it as my alarm clock ( Read more... )

OK, so we're having a house party of sorts this Saturday, starting around 8 pm or so - anyone who's on my friend list here is pretty much by definition welcome. Bring a bottle, snacks will be available.
Edit: I should probably mention where it is, for those who've never been here. It's 6 Telford Road, the small side road opposite St Davids station ( Read more... )

Hello.

I joined Facebook today. This is probably a bad idea, but (just to give primary school teachers a chuckle) everybody else does it so how can I not? Erm, this link should work ( Read more... )