Today we made a big element of Finn’s Hallowe’en costume for this year. For about two months now, he has been saying he wants to make a Predator costume. First, he’s never seen the film – he’s 12. Second, I tried to explain that I am there to help him, not make it for him.Continue reading “Blame YouTube”
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InDesign is good but so annoying!
Just a rant really. I’m engaged in creating documentation for a software product. There are probably going to be about 2.3k pages long. I’m outputting to PDF for the moment, so it will be completely digital (plans are to take it to wiki, but that’s for later) so there’s no output to dead tree. IContinue reading “InDesign is good but so annoying!”
The Piracy Threshold
On 17th February this year, Matt Gemmell posted an insightful and perspicacious article to his blog entitled The Piracy Threshold. In it, he describes how people basically want to be honest, but once the difficulty of being so reaches a certain level, when dishonesty is not only the easier option but also the one toContinue reading “The Piracy Threshold”
Striking over retirement is like…
Today we went into Bordeaux to watch some movies and as part of the French national tradition the streets were crowded with poor deluded people “manifesting” for keeping the retirement age at 60. I’m sorry, is there something I don’t understand? You’re demonstrating to have a higher tax burden? What’s worse is that these peopleContinue reading “Striking over retirement is like…”
One calendar to rule them all
I’ve been trying to locate a way to link my Datebk6 calendar on my Palm (a Treo 680) with some kind of .ical-compatible calendar on the PC so that I can have all my appointments, etc. wherever I am. I do use the Google Calendar since GMail is such an important hub for my work,Continue reading “One calendar to rule them all”
Vista bashing is sooo tired
For the umpteenth time reading on the web I get the message “Vista suxx, XP rules”. I for one would never go back to XP. I have a modern machine with enough memory, a good enough graphics card and processor power to spare to be able to run Vista and you know what? It’s betterContinue reading “Vista bashing is sooo tired”
Dickhead data destruction
So yesterday (or rather the early hours of yesterday morning) should have been great. After months of trying I finally cured a problem I had where I had had Vista installed on two drives and the one that was D: wouldn’t relinquish being system even though everything was done on the C: drive, even toContinue reading “Dickhead data destruction”
Why I won’t buy Sony
It seems people have short memories. I told my brother I wouldn’t buy a PlayStation 3 or a Bravia TV like him and he was nonplussed, he didn’t know why I wouldn’t give the giant megacorporation more of my money (I have a PlayStation, a Mini-Disc player and various other bits from years gone by).Continue reading “Why I won’t buy Sony”
Last day at NewTek Europe
It’s my last day at NewTek Europe tomorrow. I have been made redundant because of the drop off of LightWave sales meaning that my position was costing the company too much. It’s quite exciting though.
Long distance work
Working from home using your computer sounds like a doddle. Using Skype means no expensive transatlantic phone calls and email, online docs, spreadsheets and mind maps make working together easier, right? Well, only so far. If you’ve never visited your clients you don’t know how their office is laid out spatially meaning that if youContinue reading “Long distance work”