Booted desktop, it’s brain is MIA. Apparently the registry was missing.

Luckily I had a system rollback point.

Light is great, it lets us find our sandwiches and saves our shins form being mauled by feral coffee tables and means we don’t all have to learn braille.

But there’s different ways to achieve illumination in our daily lives and different types produce different shadows.

If you’re painting a picture with shadows you might want to know what sort of ( Read more... )

Considering the iPad is slightly over a quarter of all of Apple’s Profits, Apple likes to really punish iPad users for not having bought an iPhone.

http://www.cuprohastes.com/journal/ios.html for more.

… was so disappointing it killed Steve Jobs.

http://www.cuprohastes.com/journal/the-windows-8-review-that-nobody-else-is-writing.html

My review of Windows 8, mostly featuring the things that aren’t being talked about.

Having finally completed Deus Ex: human Revolution, here is my review in short form:

“Wait until it’s out on budget and they fixed the bugs.”

Full version on my website Human Revolution: A player's review.

Cross posted from:

http://www.cuprohastes.com/journal/a-short-but-informative-guide-to-social-media-ettiquette.html

Welcome to Social media! You've probably been here for a while already, or you're quite new to this!

Either way, here's a short guide; It's not here to let everyone get the most out of their experience without having to stab ( Read more... )

Originally published on http://www.cuprohastes.com/journal/gmail-google-and-google-thoughts.html

Google’s rolling a lot of it’s flagship services into the one Google+ brand.

How will this affect you?

Well… if you use any of them, they’ll all get a unified interface (Probably) and it’ll be easier to put things into the services and then have them ( Read more... )

Rare Bird Alert by Steve Martin* and the Steep Canyon Rangers

A rather nice banjo-centric set of tracks available in 320kbps un-DRM’d  MP3, CD and Vinyl.

For $9.99 you get instant download, and there’s one track you can get for free to sample. Like Steve Martin’s previous CD, the comedy tracks are both high quality material and not the main focus ( Read more... )

No.

Hipsters by and large are drawn to things outside of the mainstream and use things because they’re counter culture. They refuse to use a PDA, and carry sheafs of paper secured by a bulldog clip and loudly declare it’s their ‘Hipster PDA’ and smugly show it off as ‘like an iPhone but the battery never runs out and the resolution is like, ( Read more... )