Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
Tag Archive: tech
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Jul 27 2010
What is this character for?
¬ Why? What is it doing on my keyboard? I mean, it looks packed with awesome but I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it – what is its purpose? Update from Jeffrey Cook: Back in the dark ages (before the were any PCs, mainframe connected terminals like the IBM 3270 were …
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Jul 10 2010
Laptops
Another laptop display bites me slightly in the behind. Turned on my laptop (just over four years old) this morning to find the display ghosting (photo though due to the ghosting, I can’t tell how well it’s come out). It’s got worse over the course of the day (and it was happening in the BIOS …
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Jun 11 2010
Nokia X6: My experience so far
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently upgraded to the Nokia X6 16GB and as when I reviewed the N900, I’m posting my experiences of just over two weeks with it so far. All from the perspective of being a Linux user of course. I am loving the X6 on the whole. The ‘X’ range is …
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Jun 10 2010
In praise of Mazuma
I have been known in the past to post items ranting about poor service from companies, so it makes a nice change now to be able to say something positive about service from a company whose facilities I have used. Mazuma Mobile take a bow! I recently upgraded my mobile phone from a Nokia N95 …
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Apr 22 2010
Word Cloud
Thanks to the wonder of Wordle, I’ve created a word cloud of my blog as it currently (well, no longer once I post this) stands. It’s below – or you can see the original Java version
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Apr 05 2010
New-look Planet openSUSE
Pascal “Yaloki” Bleser, aka “The Man” has redesigned Planet openSUSE and it’s packed with awesome. So say with me, Who the man?
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Mar 30 2010
The N900: My experiences
I was contacted a little while ago by WomWorld, offering me a review copy of the Maemo-powered Nokia N900 for a couple of weeks. That two weeks just came to a close and here are my thoughts from the point of view of a Linux user. On the whole, I enjoyed the N900 but not …
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Jan 22 2010
Appear offline to selected people on Facebook
I’m sure other people have discovered this but when I was Googling for it, I had no joy so for anyone who wants to know, here we go. Firstly, you need to create some friend groups, including one of people from whom you might want to hide from time to time. In the Chat popup, …
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Jan 04 2010
Winter Wallpaper
There are few things so beautiful as what happens to water when it’s cold and it’s very cold in the UK at the moment. Took a cracking photo this morning of a close-up look at some standing frost and it makes a really nice wallpaper for a computer. Available as a standard wallpaper or a …
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