Monthly Archives: July 2009

Suse Studio

I’ve been trying out Suse Studio over the last couple of days. It’s a build service for livecds and software appliances, and it really is so easy to use that I think most non-technical users could get to grips with … Continue reading

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Upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to OpenOffice.org 3.1

This guide has all the required info, and worked like a charm on my netbook running 8.04 and my laptop running 9.04 (although it was simpler than the guide suggests in both cases). I’ll hopefully write a more comprehensive guide … Continue reading

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Review : The Glass Bead Game by James Blackshaw

James Blackshaw is a London based guitarist who creates 12 string guitar and piano based instrumental soundscapes. I’d been meaning to check out his work for a while, but only got round to downloading this album yesterday (another case of … Continue reading

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Mercury Music Prize

The nominations for this year’s Mercury Music Prize have been announced. Usually I have a fairly clear idea of who I think should win, but this year I’m torn between Florence & the Machine, Bat for Lashes and The Horrors. … Continue reading

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Another short experiment

Something else I’ve stumbled upon today is an extension that allows me to post straight to my blog from OpenOffice.org. This post is largely an attempt to get it to work, so I’ll not say anything more than that for … Continue reading

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Turning OpenOffice.org files into Wiki pages

This week I’ve been looking at a few OpenOffice.org extensions that might make my life easier. One that certainly will is the Sun Wiki Publisher. Basically it takes a document, logs in to a particular instance of Mediawiki, and converts … Continue reading

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Albums of the last 3/6 months

Albums of the last 3 months (as a follow on from the first three months of the year): 1 Maxïmo Park – Quicken The Heart 2 Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers 3 The Horrors – Primary Colours … Continue reading

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