I’ve long held that Wikipedia provides a “good enough” source of facts for a lot of information. Sure I wouldn’t base my moon landing equations on equations copied from Wikipedia’s page on celestial navigation. Not at least until I’d verified the cited facts with “reputable” sites. The trouble with checking other links is it’s hard [...]
Archive of entries posted on 9th February 2009
Some thoughts on that compiz bling
I spent some time pimping my Samsung NC-10 netbook over the weekend. I had been having problems with Firefox slowing down and becoming sluggish and unresponsive. A little digging around later and I unearthed the culprit as being the closed source Flash plugin. Although well behaved Flash applications like the YouTube and iPlayer viewers don’t [...]
