by shahid on November 26, 2006
If you don’t read Famous for 15 Megapixels and you live in Britain, your quality of life and understanding is not really where it could be.
My friend who is responsible for the inspired Minority Report alerted me to a video that Stef had posted about, which reminded me of my Oyster card(s).
I recall that I have two, both unregistered of course. Not that it really matters.
If you register your Oyster Card, the police can, without your knowledge, determine the extent of all your London Transport wanderings. (Am I the only one bemused and irritated about “London Transport” becoming “Transport for London”? Why add an extra word? Why change the word order? Was it to make it sound more cuddly? Did some agency get paid to come up with the new name? Was there a tender? Did someone get bribed? Why????)
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by shahid on June 11, 2006
My Nintendo DS Lite is a beautiful machine. I paid way too much for it, and that wasn’t entirely my fault, though I must accept much of the burden. I could have sold it on ebay while it was still in its packaging, but something about the fight against poverty mentality forced me to tear apart the shrink-wrap and just bloody well enjoy it.
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by shahid on April 24, 2006
Someone please correct me if I’m barking up the wrong tree here, but all this Web 2.0 malarkey (I’ll explain later if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about) is a bit of a con. A saucy tart from afar, but an old lady with black teeth up close.
Why?
I have been very excited about it. There are some great candidates for Web 2.0 App Of The Day, like:
And many, many others. I have been toying with the idea of knocking something up in this new-fangled technology and in my quest for knowledge, I have quickly determined that the foundation of all of this business is something that Larry Ellison told us would hapeen over a decade ago.
That’s right. Network Computing. Or to put it even more simply, and to go back even further than Ellison - the Client/Server model, most faithfully epitomised by Unix and the X Window system, something I used to mock almost two decades ago, but whose time, in the form of a faithful browser and the XhtmlRequestWhatsit command, has surely come.
David, tell me I’m wrong, please?
by shahid on November 19, 2004
I confess, I love the Mac. I love the design. I love the operating system. I love the user interface. I love the stability. I love the hardware. I love the little touches, from the way the screen hinges back and down cleanly, using the minimum amount of space, to the way the light on the power cord changes from orange to green when the laptop has charged. I love the way the keyboard lights up when the ambient light drops and I love the way just about everything I need is built in either to the hardware or the software.
There are a few blind spots, obviously. One is the lack of onboard packet re-writing which would allow CD-RWs to be treated effectively as big floppy disks, and the lack of a function that would allow multiple sessions on a standard CD-R. These things don’t worry me as much as the lack of a standard back-up utility.
The last thing I used was the excellent and tiny Carbon Copy Cloner. It allowed me to make a disk image of around 50GB of my hard drive. Took forever though.
I’m going to try Super Duper, which gives a free trial of its basic features and is apparently very straightforward.
Backup has to be very, very easy to do. Otherwise, let’s face it, it’s a bit like going for full-spectrum blood analysis after every wee.
