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Raspberry Pi - Some thoughts
So after all the hype and the frankly farcical initial supply rush, I have sat here on my desk a Raspberry Pi computer. I can't imagine there's anyone reading this who doesn't know what that is, but just in case, it's a $35 computer the size of a credit card. Built to provide low cost computing to up and coming geeky children who in today's world ( Read more... ) -
*tap* *tap* *tap* Is this still on?
OK, I'll confess that I've hugely neglected LJ over the past couple of years. Part of the problem is that I'm not sure where it fits into my life any more. I have a new site which details my freelance development work, which contains a blog for many of the more technical things I want to write. And the inevitable exodus to Facebook means that this ( Read more... ) -
Why LulzSec may not be as bad as many people think they are...
I wrote this a while ago and never got round to polishing it off before. It seems a little dated now, as it was mostly in reference to the PSN attacks etc., but I feel I should probably put it up rather than delete it.When you find a security vulnerability in real life, you have a fairly basic choice. You can take advantage of it, or you can alert ( Read more... ) -
Film Review: Paranormal Activity
I've been feeling the urge to write more recently, and a review seems a good choice to get back to posting...
I sat down to watch this late on Saturday evening, and I wasn't sure quite what to expect. Having just been watching Most Haunted, I think I was expecting more of the same, rather twee and fake spookiness. What I got instead was probably ( Read more... ) -
Holiday!
Hello once more dear readers, it's been a while, hasn't it? Things have been rather busy, but alas without very much of world changing interest to report I'm afraid. However last week I managed to go on a long anticipated Holiday :). The main reason for the trip was so that obsidian_dawn and I could go to the Hebridean Celtic Festival and also to get some R and ( Read more... ) -
Stuff and things...
Things continue to be busy, managed to work all night Thursday, got in at quarter to six, five hours sleep then back in the car to finish job off on Friday. Far from requiring sympathy, I felt great, and strangely really enjoyed getting things done and beating the odds to finish on time ( Read more... ) -
Life in bullet points.
Hello, dear public! How are we today? Having got my first moment to actually sit down and gather thoughts for I don't know how long, I thought it time to give you privilidged few a glimpse into my fabulous existance...[1] However as I'm tired/lazy/busy I figure it's acceptable to speed the process by using bullet points.
- I don't seem to have ( Read more... )
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Photography
Something that has been bubbling round in my mind for a while now has been brought to my attention by sightings of the evil privacy-invading car, namely the slightly uneasy feeling I get having my photograph taken. The impact of being photographed has changed dramaticly in recent times, five years ago, digital cameras were relatively rare, all that ( Read more... ) -
Dear Lazyweb...
Does anyone out there have experience of how RAM speed vs quantity affects overall system speed? I'm thinking of updating my desktop PC. At the moment it has 512MB of reasonably fast (CL2) RAM in it. Looking around at the intertubes, I see that for roughly the same ammount I can buy 2GB of fast memory (for example this) or 3GB of cheap memory (e.g ( Read more... ) -
Easter Whinge
Happy Easter, everyone, hooray for four-day weekends ( Read more... )