Well, I’ve been disappointed in the weather. Haven’t had any proper snow here. Yet. February could bring something more substantial, I suppose. Spent the weekend at Odney, one of JLP’s exciting holiday destinations full of groovy young Partners enjoying the crazy night life. ;-) Well, not quite, but it was a nice venue for the [...]

On the day Apple released their first Intel-powered computers, their share price closed at $80.86.

They updated the iMac! Now has “Intel Core Duo”. A better graphics card and slightly faster RAM, but pretty much everything else is the same. This messes up my plans of buying an iMac. Yes, I want one, but (a) John Lewis won’t have the Intel models for a while yet, and (b) I should [...]

It’s been 2 months since I was supposed to restart piano lessons with my teacher, Denise (who’s taught me since I was 5), but she has spent most of the intervening period in hospital—including Christmas and New Year, which must have been thoroughly depressing for her. However, she’s now out and this evening I had [...]

Movies described using Ruby: haha! (especially Finding Nemo, Spiderman and LoTR (though why that one appears in two forms I don’t know). I’m intending to buy the 20″ iMac (2.1GHz G5) on Friday, unless anything that Apple announces on Tuesday at MWSF is tempting (and it’d have to be really tempting—1st release of a Mac [...]

I took a computer geek test. Pretty respectable score, I reckon… and I used this Ruby program to decode the ASCII: str = “49204561742046726F6773″ while c = str.slice!(0..1) do print c.hex.chr end Admittedly, I had to interrupt the program to quit it, since an empty string is not the same as false. But it did [...]