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What I Did For Xmas 2011
Having done my present shopping early, avoided shops, turned the TV off and made plans to not travel anywhere, I found myself spending the Christmas weekend largely on my own in my cavernous flat ( Read more... ) -
How I dealt with Xmas 2011
I finally, after many years, discovered that Christmas is actually quite easy to deal with, and need not be the turgid cauldron of stress that it's often made out to be in the MSM. It only takes a few small adjustments to one's behaviour over the period, and suddenly everything will be swimmingly easy.
1 - Avoid shops
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One reason why I like the BBC
This may well sound like an advert for something that does not need advertising, but since upgrading my phone to the HTC Desire S a couple of weeks ago I've discovered a number of wonderful things.
Quite apart from Shredder Chess, O2's free Cloud wifi service, the ability to create/upload web pages to a remote server and wirelessly move files from ( Read more... ) -
Skyrim
Skyrim, the latest role-playing adventure game from Bethesda, just arrived on my doorstep today. For those who neither know nor care about computer games, this is an event sort of on a par with the release of a new Star Wars movie, and has been greeted by the gaming community in a similarly mixed way.
Most folks are unanimous in praising the game ( Read more... ) -
Food of the Gods
I have just finished off last night's curry, and am undecided as to whether or not that constitutes having had dinner. -
Coaches
In general, I prefer to travel via coach than by train.
Lately I have found train carriages to be increasingly noisy places, with people yapping into mobile phones, kids running around, football fans having loud conversations about The Match and so on. It's often difficult to find a 'table seat' too, and the Carrolian logic behind ticket pricing, ( Read more... ) -
Astronomy Course
The Astronomy Course materials for the Open University's S194 course have arrived. Flipping through the book it looks like one of those courses where you have to remember lots of facts, and also have to do practical things too.
The course starts on the 12th, so I'll be spending time getting the resources lined up and in readable forms. If I can get ( Read more... ) -
Web development on the Android Desire S
Well bugger me, it never, ever occurred to me that I may be able to do this on a phone! I've accidentally discovered I can make web pages on my phone and FTP them to a remote server.
This basic little demo page was coded as a result of the following experimental process. I used the following three apps:- ES File Explorer
- 920 Text Editor
- Opera Mobile
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Chessbase stuff on Android
Chessbase is the company behind Fritz, one of the chess programs I use. As well as making chess engines that Kasparov uses for training, they also compile whacking great databases of played games that can be analysed by pro chess players, huge great tutorial DVDs with databases of annotated games and video tuition, and they run an online server ( Read more... ) -
New Phone
So ( Read more... )