So, we bought our wedding rings yesterday. They’re being resized now, and will be ready in a week or so. Annettes was not so bad, but mine needed to be resized to an absurd level to fit the mighty paws I use to scoop salmon out of rivers and…
Todd Peters, VP of marketing for the Windows Mobile Division said that while Microsoft was looking into beefing up WinMo’s features, its strategy for the new year was to limit the number of devces using the OS. Right now about 140 cellphones use WinMo. Peters said Microsoft is hoping…
So this morning I put on a pair of jeans and some sandals, as it’s quite warm currently. This resulted in the following conversation: JSR: “Do do you like this look? Am I rocking it?” Annette: “You .. look like you should have a favourite linux distribution.” [Pause] JSR: “I…
Mid afternoon today, I phoned my friendly and excellent mechanic (since he’s now back from holiday), and I said “I’ll bring the car in tomorrow morning, it’s started sort of juddering and wobbling a little bit, and the juddering increases with speed. I’ve checked the tyres…
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214 Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the…
So, it’s now 2009. Only a year until the time frame of the sequel to 2001: A Space Oddessy. And I do not have any of the following: – A jetpack – An atomic-powered anything – A robot butler – A ray gun – Food pills Unacceptable. We can do better than this.…
So today I vaped my gaming rigs XP partition and replaced it with Vista Ultimate 64bit Super Hyper Turbo Edition. I did this because DirectX 10 seems to be Vista-only, and because my gaming rig has 8GB of ram of which XP could address 3.75GB or so, which seems…
Work put on an xmas lunch today – KFC and Indian food. Which is an awesome thing for work to do. I wasn’t in an indian food mood, so I had a couple of bits of KFC. This is the first time I’ve had KFC chicken bits, with bones…