Well after little fast work with the old web tools and some graphics shenanigans TimeSwappers.org is now live and online. It’s currently pretty sparse but I’m intending to flesh out content on the barter economy, time-banking, community activism side of things…if you have any links or suggestions don’t be afraid to drop a comment on [...]
I’m a huge fan of Halo…I played on multiplayer long before Windows Live came online using a nice wireless connection across the village to my mate’s front room where him and me and our respective partners would snipe, butt-stroke and run one another over with warthogs to our hearts content. This was all on the [...]
For some time now (2 years in July – wow !) I’ve been running and moderating the East Lothian chapter of the FreeCycle organisation. I was looking for a couple of stairgates for No. 1 daughter and managed to secure them from a very nice couple in Edinburgh. Not an issue for me as I [...]
For those of you packing your sleeping bags and camping stoves to spend the next few nights outside your Apple shrine in preparation to layout a significant wedge for the iPhone the Financial Times here in UK has a great article on the phone’s fundamental flaw. It is an organiser, a music player, a photo [...]
So Office 2003 is being binned for OEM’s from the end of this month less than 6 months from when it received it’s full MS launch. Which does rather beg the question…Why ? I use it at home and in the office on one of my machines and it’s perfect for my needs. So why [...]
I’ve steadfastly refused to be swayed by the sleek design and aesthetic qualities of the Apple brand, whether this is an inverted snobbery or a general mistrust of the label (and most labels for that matter) I’m not too sure, however in recent months I’m finding myself increasingly drawn toward their machines. As I’ve mentioned [...]
Over the last [ahem] years of mucking about with computers I’ve variably worked on spectrums, BBC’s, desktop VAX monsters, Mac’s in many shapes and PC’s too inumerable to mention. Some of the damn things I’ve even built myself ! Through this all I’ve by and large been a slave to Microsoft…until recently. I’ve been playing [...]
Being the inveterate nerd that I am I spent a happy 20 minutes going through this article in Ars Technica on the forthcoming AMD multi-core processors likely to be gracing a laptop or mobile computing device in the near future. As is usual with these articles I was expecting a brief resume of some Manufacturers [...]
Well this site’s the one for you…a little bit of ajax and some scripting and lo and behold your search terms from both Search giants can be seen in parallel on screen. And it’s very interesting what disparities become evident when this kind of parallel comparison takes place. I like the simplicity of mash-ups like [...]
I’ve been on the beta test programme for this for some months now and I have to say I think it’s one of the more interesting things to have come out of Redmond in some time ! WHS is a slimmed-down version of Windows small business server with no win32 gui and a highly agile [...]