So.. I got a new computer at work the other day, and I looked for a list of things to remember when migrating settings from one laptop to another, I couldn’t find one so here’s mine. I’m moving from Vista to Vistax64 so not much to report.
Firefox settings come across in their entirety using the [...]
I’d not been to barcamp before - here’s a rundown!
@voirol delivered an impassioned case for custom CMS development (as in completely proprietary) - which seems vaguely compelling for a small organisation, but scary in terms of TCO and maintainablity. He made a fine point on throwawayability, and the benefits of ‘do just what it needs [...]
We went to look at Wisdom, an exhibition by Andrew Zuckerman at the State Library. It was really quite bad, which was a shame. The idea was great, the photos good, the participants mainly worthy (Willie Nelson - WTF?), but the curation was just plain mad. The photos were in the middle, with numbers, the [...]
So, we had a great lunch today at Coffee Cup on Crown (just up from Blank Space) - it’s a fine addition to the area’s eateries. Anyway… they’re doing DIY breakfast from Monday - all the toast you can eat - you toast it yourself, organic breads galore and condiments aplenty. Seems like a bold [...]
Not my headline (see Coolhunter), but a sincere hope that Americans will get out and vote.
In one hour the (main) polls open and there’s a very real chance we’ll see President Obama duly elected, which surely would mark the end of the beginning of racism in America, and, equally importantly a bold generational change [...]
So.. I caught a taxi last night, and we pulled up behind a Prius Hybrid. The taxi driver asked me what a Hybrid was… which got me thinking about (a) how taxi drivers are typically inquisitive and conversational people (b) why most grown-ups feel foolish about asking questions (c) whether the taxi driver really didn’t [...]