Posted in Computers, Gaming, Quotations on 26 January 2008 | No Comments »
De Gaulle’s greeting to you on discovering France in the game Civilization IV.
Posted in Computers on 25 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the dangers of using the internet here in India - and, indeed, at any internet cafe - is having all your keystrokes recorded by a key-logger. A key-logger being a device into which the keyboard plugs, and which then plugs into the keyboard socket on the computer.
After considering this - and, in fact, [...]
Posted in Computers, Life, Travel on 5 December 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday I finally completed my epic project of sorting, editing and uploading my photos from South Korea and Canada. I now have 931 images on my Flickr pages, and all but the occasional uncategorisable picture are sorted into sets … which are themselves arranged in helpful categories, like UK, Canada and South Korea.
Having done with [...]
Posted in Books, Computers, Travel on 11 October 2007 | No Comments »
This morning I went to the mint here in Ottawa. Not a gigantic Polo Mint, but the place where Canada’s comemmorative coins, collector’s coins, medals and even other nations’ currency is produced. Normal currency has been made at the mint in Winnipeg for the last few decades. However, the next tour was at 1pm, so [...]
Posted in Computers, Employment, Life on 27 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
As I begin writing this post it’s twenty-five to seven on Tuesday the twenty-eighth of August 2007. My flight back to Britain (via Amsterdam, once again) is at 1335 hours. I’ve spent the whole night packing, and I’m actually almost finished.
Let’s go back to Friday.
There’s one humorous incident that I’d like to share from my [...]
Posted in Computers, Miscellaneous on 25 April 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, three, anyway. As I mentioned on my post this morning, I was expecting a trio of novels - and they all arrived during the day. I’ve been reading The Steep Approach to Garbadale. 30-odd pages into it and it seems pretty decent. Unlike many of Banks’s ‘literary’ fiction novels, where most of the plot [...]
Posted in Computers, Miscellaneous on 28 June 2006 | No Comments »
Statistics news: the previous post was my one hundredth, and, on the 26 June I had a record number of hits - 26 of ‘em. I’ve noticed over the last few weeks that a lot of my search engine referrals are people looking for reviews of The Bonehunters. To them I say, ‘It’s good - read [...]
Posted in Computers, Music, Quotations on 27 June 2006 | No Comments »
I listen to music on my computer. I have about 2,000 tracks copied from CD on to my hard drive and I use Media Player to play various playlists (I don’t have my CD collection with me in London, nor apart from my computer do I have the means of actually playing CDs here either). [...]
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