Monthly Archives: February 2010

New ways of doing old things

This weekend I decided to try and use different tools to perform my usual computer-based tasks. Yesterday, I tried to do everything in Mac OS X (Leopard), and also tested out Thunderbird 3. I reckon I could live with a … Continue reading

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A fairly morbid post

This morning I’ve been thinking about mortality, and about all the people I see and talk to (and all the people I don’t see and don’t talk to but still care about). If I knew that I only had one … Continue reading

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A week off work

This week I have been on leave. I’ve not really been anywhere, but have largely spent the week either at home, or out with family. My plans for the week were to reinstall my laptop, get my hair cut off, … Continue reading

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Reinstalling Ubuntu

This weekend I decided to reinstall my laptop. Largely because it’s been through two Ubuntu upgrades (8.10 –> 9.04 –> 9.10), and also because it was still on an ex3 file system and my netbook on ex4 is a lot … Continue reading

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The move to Google Reader

For a good few years I’ve been using Livejournal as a feed reader, with the idea being that if I was reading what my friends were up to anyway, I might as well intersperse it with news and other things … Continue reading

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