Archive for March, 2007

Myspace

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Hmm.
The Observer Music Monthly writes that “”Like happy slapping and blaring music out of your mobile phone in the middle of packed train carriages, Enter Shikari are a phenomenon almost entirely inexplicable to anyone past their early 20s.”
Add MySpace to that list. I see these pages and I just think “what the hell’s going [...]

Migrating Windows XP to a larger laptop hard disk

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I ran out of space on my laptop, so I put a new disk drive in. Too tight to buy Ghost or anything like that, I elected to migrate my old stuff using Open Source tools. All the tools I needed were on SystemRescueCd.

I did hit a few issues, and I didn’t find an [...]

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

The thing I like about O’Reilly books is that they get straight to the point. They’re not too dry — there is wit and readability, but not at the expense of conciseness. The antithesis of this is the Idiot’s Guide series, which patronises the reader with overlong explanations of simple concepts.
And then there’s Why’s [...]

Grows On You

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Ajay came to visit this weekend — for Tom’s birthday celebrations. He told me that his website project is ready for public consumption.

Growsonyou.com is a social networking site for gardeners — gardeners can show off photographs of their gardening triumphs, ask questions or answer them.
If you’re interested in gardens, give it a go — [...]

Confessions of a Football Know-Nothing

Monday, March 5th, 2007

This is an article I wrote for the Leamington FC Fanzine Windmill Wonderland. It was distributed at the Retford United FA Vase match last month, and since it’s sold out now, I thought I’d publish the article here as well.
Curzon Ashton knocked us out of the FA Vase this weekend, by the way. 4-1 [...]



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