Happy Festivities

Posted on Fri 26 December 2008 in general

I hope everyone is having a lovely Christmas. Yesterday involved a small mountain of the food and associated mini lake of wine which left me in a carb induced coma for the est of the day. As Christmas is split over the two family homes we are having Christmas 2 …


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Done

Posted on Thu 18 December 2008 in general

I've packed my work headphones, USB drive and other accoutrements and headed home. I am now a man of leisure for the foreseeable future.


Electric Heads

Posted on Tue 16 December 2008 in geek

We watched Top Gear last night and I saw a car I'd be happy to buy and still feel good enough about my environmental credentials. I thought Clarkson was a little hard on the Tesla Roadster's range. The rated range of 244 miles on a full charge assumes a …


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Inadvisable Experiment?

Posted on Mon 15 December 2008 in general

One of the aspects of my personal grooming the last number of months has involved dropping the regular shaving. There are a number of reasons of which laziness and the fact it keeps my face moderately warmer when cycling are the key drivers. Outside of the first day or so …


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Home is where the bandwidth is

Posted on Fri 12 December 2008 in geek

After a few false starts last night I finally got a chance to play with PlayStation Home for a bit this morning. The simplest description of it would probably be Second Life for consoles.

First impressions are actually pretty good. The initial avatar creation process certainly gives you plenty of …


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