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August 2005 - Posts

The Island : Product Placement
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:25 PM
Went to see "The Island" on Sunday. It is a "wham bam" action adventure with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as clones (the product) escaping from the laboratory where they were grown as walking spare part repositories for their "sponsors". It takes
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Small is Beautiful
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:02 PM
Why programs should be getting smaller
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Fun With Installer
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:14 PM
Why you should write an installer for your program.
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Modern Technology
Friday, August 26, 2005 8:08 AM
Digital technology is sometimes wonderful. Take this morning. I read in the paper a review of an album which sounded like fun. I fire up the computer and, whilst I clean my teeth it downloads the album from Napster To Go (costing me nothing). Then, whilst
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Flickr Link Test
Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:29 PM
I've been taking pictures again. The university looked rather fine this morning. I'm wondering if I can link the pictures straight from my Flickr space. If you can see the picture, I can....
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Money for Bravery
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 9:58 PM
I'm not very keen on heights. Never have been. I'm very proud of having climbed up the leaning tower in Pisa, but there was no way you could get me close to the edge and make me look down. Number on daughter is made of sterner stuff. Much sterner stuff.
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Back in the Groove
Monday, August 22, 2005 6:53 PM
I've been absent from the Spoke for a while. I've not been away as such (except for a trip to Bronte Country) but my pattern of work has changed for a few days whilst I sort out a few bits and bobs, and I seemed to fall out of the habit of blogging for
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Travellers Tales
Friday, August 12, 2005 6:47 PM
I've been off on my travels for a little while. Yesteday, something I'd been looking forward to for a long time. Got a chance to look around a real, live Concorde. My dad-in-law is one of the guides on tours around the plane and he sorted out a visit
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Hello Vista
Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM
I spent a big chunk of Sunday afternoon loading Vista onto my Tablet PC. I had to re-partition the hard disk first to make space, and now I can dual boot into the shiny new operating system (a tip - if you need to do this the UK Magazine Computer Shopper
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Testing and Faith
Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:33 PM
One of the electric windows in my car failed last week. See my other blog for the whole sorry story. Anyhoo, I'm pretty sure that I've fixed it, in that every time I've used it since the repair it has worked. However, this does not prove that the
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What use is a cheap router?
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:26 PM
I'm setting up a new server at the moment. This means that I'm installing shiny new copies of Windows Server 2003 and then attaching them to the network to get the latest updates and patches. This can be a dangerous business. I've known people get their
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Fun with a New Machine
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:22 AM
My new Dell machine has arrived which will be the basis of our new Class Server installation. I like getting new computers to play with. Especially if they are brand new and empty. I've got Server 2003 on the box and I'm just adding Service Pack 1
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