Twitter Blog I was one of the many disappointed when Twitter pulled the UK SMS plug. At the time it was early days on my first generation iPhone and I was on a trip to Menorca with no data service of Wifi to be seen the only way I could get my regular fix of [...]
And now that I have Growl and Twitterific in place I think I’m done setting up the new MacBook # @makingupnumbers Plenty of people selling cheap renewals on eBay in reply to makingupnumbers # Jodrell Bank was pointing straight up this morning for the second day running. Maybe they were just collecting rainwater for the [...]
I’m not one for your turn based board games but I was just noodling round Google after seeing that my blog was taking heavy traffic on Durham Red when I stumbled on Heroscape. More specifically a set of custom cards from the fan community based on comic heroes and in that collection I found a [...]
Its nearly birthday time again, Monday to be exact and I’ve had a couple of presents early. With the new MacBook Pro in place I thought it a shame to put it in my old Crumpler Crippy Duck, besides the PowerBook was still in there. So I went on the look out for something new [...]
There’s something very peaceful about sitting with a new Mac, a nice clean install without my scruffy baggage of a thousand files on the desktop. I’d like to think I was more organised in the long term but I tend to reach a critical mass where I create a ‘clean up’ folder and dump everything [...]
Doing the job I do it irks me to ‘retire’ any computer before its time but thats just what I did this weekend. I’m not sure if its just a Mac thing but I feel a certain sadness at moving on from my old trusty PowerBook G4, more so that I could feel for say [...]
A bit of sunshine and everyone says it’s spring. It’s spring when I say so. # Why is Pink Floyd The Wall not iTunes plus unlike all the other Floyd stuff in the iTunes Store? # @Dative No problem. I noticed a few icons in various places at a higher native res. If you want [...]
It was a traumatic day today in the Red household after waking up to find the door on the ferrets cage wide open and no ferret to be seen. With daughter Red and Mrs. Red both turning in late for school and work respectively having completed initial search parties there were no weasels, stoats, pine [...]
I’ve had a crap day but Paddy and Keith have cheered me right up #
