I like new things. Many of my friends and colleagues do as well. Some of us are very familiar with "early adopter tax", the high price of paying for a new release product or program in spite of the knowledge that delaying the purchase would save money. I got to thinking about early-adoption a little … Continue reading On being an early-adopter
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Or at least the ones bought there do. In my travels to Canberra I've now bought two compact travel umbrellas and lost *both* of them within a week of purchase. Seems like an umbrella bought in Canberra really wants to stay in Canberra -- the last one lost was liberated by someone who sought to … Continue reading Umbrellas like Canberra
I have been in the mobile phone market on-and-off for nearly 12 months. There wasn't really anything wrong with the N70, I guess I was just getting a little fidgety with lots of new "shiny" going around. The trip to the US in May, and seeing an iPhone in person for the first time, probably … Continue reading New gadget: Nokia E71
I've been extremely slack at blogging recently. It's ironic that what has been keeping me from blogging has probably been the very thing that I could be blogging plenty about: the constant travel to Canberra. I'm planning on writing a bit more about my experiences of and in our nation's capital, so for now here … Continue reading Canberra
Thanks to work, I am now the possessor of a rather cool piece of kit: a tablet PC. It's a Mobile Computing LE1700, and I'm quite impressed with how it works. The big question though is of course... Will it run Linux?At the moment it's still running Windows XP Tablet Edition, but that's only because … Continue reading Motion Computing Tablet PC
Way back in May I had a hard disk in my laptop fail, and after the warranty replacement disk showed up it took me a few days to get around to doing the replace. It didn't get off to a very good start though... In the past when I've done this kind of recovery I … Continue reading Laptop hard disk replacement, part two
Sometimes when working with computers and networks (as with most things in life) the thing that causes the most problem is the last thing you suspect--or often something you never suspected. I had a reminder of this the other day, when a moderately complex task I'd set myself looked to be scuppered for absolutely no … Continue reading Don’t you hate it when defaults change?
Over the last fortnight I finally got the wriggle-on to upgrade all my (K)Ubuntu systems to Hardy Heron. Various issues occurred with each of them, but overall the entire exercise went smoothly (my wife's little old Fujitsu Lifebook was probably smoothest of the lot). I had one rather vexing issue however, on my old (I'm … Continue reading Ubuntu 8.04 Wireless Weirdness
I really don't use Twitter much at all. It's one of those things, like Facebook, that I just signed up to more-or-less on a whim. But with all the stability and performance problems they've been having recently (and the flak they've been taking in the press, I understand) I'm hoping that they pull through. You … Continue reading Whither Twitter
If I see or hear one more reference to something being a "perfect storm" I think I'm going to be sick.
Crossed Wires 