Red's Ramblings v.2

That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, [...]

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5′s screen sharing I was looking for a some XP remote desktop style privacy when screen sharing and found this excellent tip. Just open terminal (close screen sharing if you have a session open) and type: defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \ ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add [...]

Rise up this mornin, Smiled with the risin sun, Six little birds Pitch by my doorstep Singin sweet songs Of melodies pure and true, Sayin, (this is my message to you-ou-ou:) As seen outside my bedroom windows this morning.

It was on the cards since last weeks incident with the Rangers match in Manchester but I have to ask, what really has changed? I’ve seen Manchester United parade trophies in open top buses many, many times (thankfully) over the years and I can’t see how the trouble in the city centre last week can [...]

I just spotted an email sat in my junk mail folder from Sky touting their new Sky Anytime player. The small print at the bottom amused me. “PC with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista or Mac with compatible virtualisation software required.” So that would be XP and Vista them and you just wanted to get [...]

I’m not completely blameless in the story I’m about to relay, that should be said, but this is a tale of poor customer care and inability to reach a compromise. As to who should be making the most concessions I’ll let you decide. Our tale starts at the back end of last year. Work was [...]

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Uefa Cup fans clash with police I had planned going into town to soak up the atmosphere but it appears that if I had done just that then the afternoon was the time to go. I really can’t believe some of the comments posted in that article. But [...]

I knocked up a Manchester United wallpaper for my iPhone seeing as its the first time its been with me to the match. I’ve popped it on Flickr so its free for anyone to use.