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Style

In geek on 13 August 2008 tagged spelling with no comments

I just stuck a 7 out of 10 in The Economist’s Style Quiz.
In your face, a barely working knowledge of spelling and grammar!

Dispatch from Dial-up hell

In geek, internet on 9 August 2008 tagged Dial-up with no comments

I was trying to upgrade OSX when the shit hit the fan. Some big downloads meant I’d teetered over my 10GB cap for the month, and my internet connection, my precious, precious broadband was grounded - back to 56KBps I went. For two weeks. Bloody hell.
Oh well, we survived for years on Dial-up - surely [...]

Links

In film, geek, internet, links, music on 29 July 2008 with no comments

Wired magazine has an oral history of War Games, the film that made me realise Dad’s TRS-80 was capable of more than 10 Print: You are a dick and 20: Goto 10. Possibly. That shit’s *still* really, really funny
Kubrick nitty gritty fans should take an hour to watch this, or the time-poor should read this [...]

Not quite the Jesus phone - the Noah phone, maybe?

In geek on 13 July 2008 tagged iphone with no comments

Ernie Newman from TUANZ picked up on my iphone alternative.
By ‘picked up’ I mean publishing the email I sent him.

1001 books and films you must see before you die

In film, geek, media, meta on 14 May 2008 tagged lists with 1 comment

Inspired by Jason Kottke, I’ve been through 1001 books and films you must see before you die and ticked off my reading (28) and viewing (215). It’s fair to say I’ve seen more of the films than read the books on these lists- I tend to read more contemporary lit, and the list focuses [...]

Del.icio.us - where to-dos go to die

In geek, internet, meta on 23 April 2008 tagged del.icio.us with 1 comment

I’ve been using Del.icio.us since April 2005, and saved 2200 pages to the site. Recording and tagging my web travels is great, stopping all those wonderful links from slipping into the digital never-never land. Firefox makes link getting really easy, with Apple or Ctrl - click I get a good eight or ten tabs [...]