John Peel

it’s a sad day for the country, with John Peel’s passing a legend is lost. Can I be amongst the first to suggest a posthumous knighthood.

google desktop

I was a little sceptical, but google desktop is pretty nifty, especially the google.com integration. Despite the privacy concerns (and the fact it’s only scanning specific apps and file types), I do quite like it.

world snowboard guide

if you like snowboarding (etc.) check out this book by my old flatmate Steve, it’s pretty damn good.

iCal task import

it seems there’s no easy way to import tasks into Mozilla calendar at the moment. The easiest workaround is to save your tasks as a separate ics, then subsribe in moz to that calendar, and create new ones in your main calendar deleteing from the tasks one.

iSync can’t synchronize contacts to exchange

after ages faffing around trying to get mac address book to sync with exhange server, I realised you don’t need to include the full URL e.g. you just need to leave off the /exchange bit.. rgghgh, how annoying.

iSync can’t synchronize contacts to exchange

after ages faffing around trying to get mac address book to sync with exhange server, I realised you don’t need to include the full URL e.g. you just need to leave off the /exchange bit.. rgghgh, how annoying.

iSync can’t synchronize contacts to exchange

after ages faffing around trying to get mac address book to sync with exhange server, I realised you don’t need to include the full URL e.g. you just need to leave off the /exchange bit.. rgghgh, how annoying.