After 3 weeks of scouring job listings every day, I've got a job again. Not a 'proper' one, but I'd rather do this than a permanent role anyway to tell the truth. I've got a lot of freedom with this, I can work when I want, how I want and - unlike Sony - I've got a lot of responsibility ( Read more... )

I had an idea as I was mustering some form of consciousness this morning. The whole concept and design of what's illustrated below is something I've been considering for the last few months or so, and I realised long ago that the requirements of such a system is best illustrated by actual scenarios. Technologically this is possible now (albeit ( Read more... )

(I have a lot of tech predictions, I have most of them written down somewhere, but it occurred to me that it might be an idea to put them somewhere I couldn't have manipulated later ( Read more... )

I listen to quite a few audio and video podcasts, this one that has had by far the greatest impact on me. I would recommend it to anyone who has any interest in UK politics ( Read more... )

When Windows users talk about Windows, they tend to bitch and moan about it.
When Linux users talk about Linux, they actually tend to bitch and moan about MS.
When Mac users talk about OS X, they tend to talk about how wonderful it is.
( More Evangelism and Geekery )

I had to stop myself buying it right there and then.

Safari online bookshelf now offers access to its complete library. Everything. For $39.99. Damn I want it. I'm currently playing less than half that, and it is more than I would otherwise ever pay for text books (considered continuously, over months and years). But I am sooo very very tempted ( Read more... )

You can't know anything about technology and not know about High Definition. I've known about it since AS Electronics, and I've heard plenty about it recently in all the adverts and marketing ( Read more... )

Annoyingly the Mac had more problems again this week. The CD drive seemed to disappear and OS X had no clue of its existence. This was doubly annoying given that I had a rented DVD in it at the time. Anyway, I reset the PRAM (a Mac specific thing I think) and it seemed to start working again - though not immediately after so it could be something ( Read more... )

I've finally gone jogging. I've been trying to motivate myself for the last three weeks now, and its finally happened. I think my parents were stunned ( Read more... )

I don't think I can possibly express how upset I am properly (especially given I'm doing this during my lunch break ( Read more... )