Food and Power

Posted on Thu 01 February 2007 in geek

My snazzy Ogg capable Samsung YP-U2R finally arrived yesterday. It's a nice little neat 2Gb solid state player with a built in FM tuner. It has it's own internal rechargeable battery which charges off the USB port. Well when I say charges I actually mean it draws enough power of …


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Climate of Debate

Posted on Thu 18 January 2007 in geek

I was disappointed with Today's discussion about Dennis Avery's book Unstoppable Global Warming. The central tenant of the book is that global warming is not due to human action but part of a natural environmental cycle of the earth - basically we can't do anything about it and should just prepare …


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iSteve snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

Posted on Fri 12 January 2007 in geek

Why would I bother with a fancy OSX enabled iPhone if I can't hack about with it?


Franks 2000inch TV

Posted on Thu 11 January 2007 in geek

Jo very kindly came into town today to take advantage of her last week of employment at Empire of Evil and their staff discount. After an initial faffing on with a price higher than I was quoted on Tuesday the salesman came right down to the best web price I …


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Data Leak

Posted on Tue 09 January 2007 in geek

I had a phishing email arrive in my INBOX today. This wouldn't be noteworthy except it was an attempt was mailed to one of my many aliases. I create these aliases so I can track who's being liberal with my data even though I always tick the "Do not share …


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