And +1 again.

All characters in Fable 2 have the exact same accent as Peter Molyneux. I suspect budget treachery.

The Sony eBook reader is so cute and the price just went down. I suppose it's either because a new model is about to come out or because Sony realised the Kindle killed it. I think I won't be able to resist the Kindle when it's available in Ireland (probably whenever Amazon will realise that we exist, which will provide me with waaaaay enough ( Read more... )

Over the past 3 years, I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, from FreeBSD to Linux (on my home Unix thingie), from FreeBSD to OS X (on my home computer), from Linux to OS X (on my work computer), from a self-administered MX to Google Apps for your Domain, from a "files-based" web-hosting solution to Google Sites, from Mutt to Gmail, from a ( Read more... )

I'm in Mountain View. I was essentially grumpy at the beginning of the last week-end but started to feel a lot better thanks to a visit to the Computer History Museum. This time, I managed to see the PDP-1 demonstration (one of the most lovely things on Earth apart from me and Saint-Nectaire). As a free bonus, I also got to see a working ( Read more... )

Barring a couple of social disagreements these guys apparently generated, I have a lot of respect for Sir Alan Michael Sugar and Steve Jobs. But I just came across Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island, its "Legal stuff" link, its progress bar saying "Loading... Please bear with us" and it just reminded me of Virgin Atlantic and how this guy just ( Read more... )

I often mock gerrowadat's musical tastes because I don't really understand why anybody could prefer Metal over ABBA. This video helped me a lot.

I have IPv6 at home, thanks to tunneling magic and http://sixxs.net/. You most likely don't care but some irresponsible people recently asked me to blog more and that's all I have (apart from other boring things like I have a significant amount of work and kids and we're trying to make our house look like something we're not ashamed to live in).

"Thanks for fisking the house, daddy" is what my daughter told me this evening after I spent half a day of mostly non disastrous DIY. Today was also the day she started wanting to marry me. I think it's mostly because I'm the closest and most convenient prince in the area.

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