Archive for the 'Tech' Category

I need a Wii bit of advice…

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I’ve ordered a Nintendo Wii. This will be my first ever games console, so I need a bit of advice on what games to get. So far, I’ve ordered: The Wii with Sports Pack Extra Wii-mote and Nunchuck (I share the flat with 2 others so would be fun to have multiplayerness) Rayman’s Ravin Rabbids [...]

Beware of the Leopard

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

The WWDC coverage at Engadget is pretty good, with lots of pictures. Basically, we’ve got up to 3GHz dual dual-core Xeon (Woodcrest) Mac Pros, Xeon Xserves coming in a couple of months, and some info about what’s going to be in Leopard. Notably cool things under that last heading include: “Spaces” (a very polished-looking implementation [...]

Ruby joy

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

This is mainly to annoy Emma. She mentioned that she’d had to implement a conversion between base 36 and base something-else (64?). I cannot begin to describe how horrible that would be in COBOL. But in Ruby… ;-) Admittedly, to do this more “the Ruby way”, I’d write this as a module, or a mixin, [...]

computing outdoors

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Well, I went and bought the MacBook. I’m still getting it set up how I want it, but I have transferred all my old email across and got Safari bookmarks & Address Book synchronising nicely between my 2 Macs. I am now sitting in the garden, have sent the emails I wrote whilst on the [...]

MmmmmmmmmmmacBook

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Apple finally released the MacBook, the Intel-based sucessor to the iBook. It comes in 3 models, at 3 prices. The cheapest is £749 and is very tempting. The other two are priced at £899 and £1028.99 and differ in only two ways: hard disk size (60GB vs. 80GB) and colour (white vs. black). So thats, [...]

Host transfer complete

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

My site is now hosted by Prime Hosting. I’ve switched away from WebFusion for 3 reasons: I was paying too much. WebFusion only offered me 1 MySQL database; I now get 5, which is plenty. Prime Hosting offers Ruby and Ruby on Rails support. This is a Good Thing™ as Ruby is cool. :-) I [...]

Not long to wait…

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Apple announced another press event for this Wednesday, mentioning something about their pro range of products. This can only mean PowerMac updates at last! :) Saw Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit yesterday with Emma and Paul. Was good fun, but unfortunate that circumstances had forced me into going to a 2pm [...]

Hoping for “…and another thing”

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Apple’s “one more thing…” gave us iTunes 6 (hot on the heels of iTunes 5), video-playing iPods, iTMS selling videos (what kind of quality, I wonder?) and a thinner iMac with “Front Row”, a remote control, built-in iSight and no modem. I’m disappointed. Partly because I don’t see the point of video on an iPod. [...]

G&S: the Ring-Wraiths?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Reading Tom Holt’s The Portable Door, I came across this wonderful line (emphasis mine): Married sisters in Broitwich and unreliable cousins made much more sense in the cold light of morning than Gilbert and Sullivan bearing down on him like a brace of Nazgul. Intriguing news items on the Mac rss feeds this morning: Apple [...]