Information technology, computing and related
Selection of my Tweets from March 15th, 2009 Working on a blog about (re)building up a web presence Was reminded how much gameplay was sacrificed for 3D eyecandy. We need is a new Ultima Underworld Found a Gnu multi-platform DOS emulator for old games. Woot! DOSbox DOSBox is an emulator which emulates an IBM PC […]
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Twitter posts for March 13th, 2009 Watched Conan on VHS tape. Can’t believe how poor it was compared to DVD & Bluray – yet as a kid we only had 3 channels in B&W. What’s next? You know, searching Amazon etc, there’s masses of genius on VHS from comedians like Mike Harding and Jasper Carrot
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Twitter post updates, March 12th, 2009 Several hours later… gave up on bandwidth hogging full backgrounds for Twitter, trying a simple corner image and editing setting colours Yeh gods, 2am comes round fast, still, I suppose tinkering with code and designs for Twitter is more productive than grinding levels in WoW Started converting all our
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Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP LCD: How best to sum up this screen? BEST MONITOR EVER! My Mitubishi 2070SB was awesome in its time and until I bought my wife a 24″ Dell LCD didn’t think it could be bettered. I was wrong. In terms of wow factor, this big screen is probably up there with playing
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Twitter: first look According to their front page, Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Kind of sad, but I don’t have that many fiends, errr, friends, but I’ve still taken to Twitter
GA-EX58 Extreme review Thrice cursed upgrade this year, I tell ya’ On top of the thousands I spent upgrading my computer this year I got two more slaps in the face, one, well two from Gigabyte and one from Antec, adding yet another £125 to the cost. For a start, after waiting weeks for Dabs
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Online shopping hassles You wouldn’t believe the hassles I’ve had this past week to order parts for my latest upgrade. Credit crunch or no, I like to shop around for computer parts to get the best deal; after years of experience in the computer trade I have an aversion to paying full or even average
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Microsoft mess up This tickled me so I had to copy it here. I read it and sat here chuckling to myself as an executive manages the art of stating the bleedin’ obvious: Speaking at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, senior vice president for Windows Steven Sinofsky conceded that Vista had not
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