We finally reached the limit on the PS3′s hard disk a few weeks ago. Although I had the option of reformatting the hard drive to reclaim the 10gb after Sony disabled OtherOS* it seemed a lot easier to get a newer more spacious disk. A quick trip to Amazon later and a very simple backup [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2010
Detecting a certain warmth
I arrived back from my whistle-stop tour of southern Africa on Friday morning. By the time I arrived back at home I was good for little more than drifting in and out of consciousness on the sofa while noticing little change in environment. In fact Africa was probably perceived as slightly cooler given they are [...]
Rainbow Nation
Well I finally made it to South Africa for my whistle-stop tour south of the equator. I managed to get an exit seat so I wasn’t too confined. During the 10 hours of flight I reckon I managed to achieve about 2 hours of somnolent state which has been enough to get me to the [...]
Still here
I should be on a plane at this point, however ash has conspired to cancel my connecting flight this morning. I’m now re-booked onto another flight this evening so I’ll still be in South Africa in time for meetings just on considerably less sleep. The weekend was lovely and relaxed. We attended to some wedding [...]
Return to normality
Now the new government is installed and running we can return to our usual programme. One of the things I shall be looking forward to is the promised shake up in Government IT procurement. Both the Lib Dems and the Tories are more or less singing from the same song sheet. More specifically capping individual [...]
Electoral Reform
I know I planned to stop writing about politics post election but as things aren’t quite decided yet I find I’m still thinking about it. One of the more common statements coming from people wishing to see Labour somehow continue in office is that 52% of the population voted to keep the Tories out. By [...]
Interesting times, part 2
I didn’t make it to the declaration of my local constituency which eventually declared sometime around 5 in the morning. As a result I’m basically functioning on tea infusions. I may have to whip up a super-caffeine latte in a bit. The results last night where all over the place. Some stonking swings to the [...]
Election day in the UK
Today is the general election in the UK. It’s the closest race I’ve ever been eligible to vote in and the outcome is far from certain. If you do one thing today please go and vote. That is all.
Big Society vs Proportional Representation
This will be my last post on the subject of politics for some time. Tomorrow is election day and even though blogging is not yet subject to the oversight of Ofcom the convention of not campaigning on election day seems like a good one to follow. The campaign has taken a certain negative turn, a [...]
Thoughts on Steve
The current spat between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Adobe has been amusing to watch from the sidelines. There is an irony in Apple having a go at Adobe for supporting a closed proprietary de-facto standard like Flash. Much as it pains me to say it on most of the points Steve makes I find myself [...]
