Category Archives: General

New iMac Mini!

Apple just anounced the Mac mini. A small, little mac that starts at £339 or $499. At last the cheap mac that everyone has been waiting for. It doesn’t include a screen but it has an optical drive and a … Continue reading

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Phantom Game System

Amazingly enough, despite appearing on Wired’s vapourware list, the Phantom game system actually appeared at CES. (Or at least a box appeared at CES) The Phantom offers a sort of video game on demand system, which I’m not totally convinced … Continue reading

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Smoothies

New smoothie recipe that I tried: 2 bananas 250ml Orange juice. Put bananas in blender. Add orange juice to blender. Blend until smooth. Not exactly impressively innovative, but it tastes quite good.

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Amazon ads

I was just doing a quick search for Lemony Snicket books (of which there are apparently now 11) on Amazon.com Oddly enough when I did the search I got the following within the search results: It appears that they are … Continue reading

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How stuff gets popular

This article:The Long Tail in the October issue of wired is really interesting. It offers the idea that the sucess of the most popular media titles is actually less than the cumulative totals of the other titles. The article also … Continue reading

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Daily WTF!

The Daily WTF

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The Twelve Days of Crunch Time

The Twelve Days of Crunch Time Weird! (from Slashdot)

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PalmOS future?

Weird things seem to be happening in the Palm OS sector. PalmSource recently bought China MobileSoft which is a Chinese linux smartphone developer. This comes after spending about $11 million to buy BeOS from be back in 2001. One obvious … Continue reading

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Ethical Hacking: A BCS Talk

This evening I went along to the Edinburgh BCS talk on Ethical Hacking. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security. Peter Wood of First Base Technologies gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk … Continue reading

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Rabbit in Sauce Sublime

“Rabbit in Sauce Sublime, a recipe that sounds right out of a Warner Brothers cartoon” There are several really odd websites with recipes from a time when taste was lacking and people cooked the oddest things. Gallery of Regretable Foods … Continue reading

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Added Staticize plugin

To fit in with my views on websites (only as dynamic as absolutely necessary), I have installed this plugin. Hopefully this will not cause too many problems.

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Ebay Suspension

Weird thing happened today. I was checking my email and I saw a message from ebay stating that my account had been suspended. I assumed it was fake and went to visit ebay itself. But it seems real. The whole … Continue reading

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Pocket PC and Mac OS X

In a break from SQLEditor and other similar things I’ve been trying to connect my pocket pc to my macintosh. After some experimentation I have sucessfully installed synce using instructions . I have also got the pocket pc to connect … Continue reading

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Walled City of Kowloon

Leynos posted a really interesting story about the Walled City of Kowloon. It’s fascinating and I’ve been reading all the linked web pages …

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SQLEditor Cocoa B11a

Unfortunately there was a crashing bug in SQLEditor beta 11 and I had to release b11a. It was one of these things were format strings caused the crash. I’d transposed two of the entries [NSString stringWithFormat:@” %@ %d”,aDecimal,aString] instead of … Continue reading

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HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News

HP unveils paper-thin flexible screen technology – ZDNet UK News This is a really amazing development. There are some images too. The most impressive one is probably the first image which has been unplugged for two years! They also demonstrate … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B11 Released

Released SQLEditor Cocoa B11 today. Lots of new features included in this release. I almost missed the release today actually because I found an unfortunate bug just before I was about to upload. It turned out that an object wasn’t … Continue reading

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Mental Control of Computers

Yahoo! News – Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power This is a really great piece of news. If this technology can be extended then it will really improve the quality of people’s lives immensely. Plus they’re also promising non-invasive approaches … Continue reading

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Cocoa#

I’ve been playing around a bit recently with mono and cocoa#. There also seems to be an experimental build of Mono-develop. I begin to think that .net and mono are going to be excellent java competitors. I also think that … Continue reading

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Sorry about lack of postings

Not much happening here recently. I don’t think I’ve posted anything since September. This is mainly because I’ve been really busy with other stuff. SQLEditor has been making good progress and I’ve been working on some other projects too.

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