Archive for January, 2007
Playing with Parallels
I’ve been playing with Parallels on my Intel Mac at home. Overall I’m impressed – I managed to get both Windows XP and Ubuntu Edgy set up without too much bother. For Ubuntu I followed these instructions from the Muffin Research Labs (great name too!). For XP I had a bit of [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under apple.
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Five things you didn’t know about me
I’ve been tagged by Adrian, until recently one of my fellow Oxtremists, to divulge five things you may not know about me. This is part of the meme that threatens to destroy the interweb whereby each person gives 5 interesting, or not so interesting facts about themselves and then tags 5 other people to [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under me me me.
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Getting Things Done… again
I haven’t made any New Year’s resolutions as such for the start of 2007. However, I have been re-reading David Allen’s book Getting Things Done (GTD).
I read this the first time a year or two back and have put some of its ideas into practice. So now I manage my life [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2007 under me me me, productivity.
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T-shirt shop!
Had some fun creating a t-shirt shop at Spreadshirt.net. Take a look here.
Posted: January 15th, 2007 under clothing.
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iPhone palaver
I use a Mac at work. I use a Mac at home. We’re a 2 iPod family. But I’m not really interested in an iPhone. Part of this is that I’ve never been interested in mobile phones. If I didn’t have one paid for by my work, I’d almost certainly be [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2007 under apple.
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Photo blogging
Just testing how it works posting to my blog direct from Flickr. This is a photo of the side of the Windmill at Brill. We went there on New Year’s Day – the girls had a run around in the tellytubbyland hills and I had a chance to fly my birthday kite….
Posted: January 11th, 2007 under photos.
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Where’s the instruction booklet?
One blindingly obvious use of the ‘net, to me at least, is as a place to put instruction booklets. So that when you inevitably lose the instructions for something you bought you can at least get a copy as a PDF from the manufacturer’s website. I’ve done this in the past when I [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2007 under odd.
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