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There are people who would say that the first two words in the title are unnecessary given the last two, and I can see why. I think it was 2001 that we signed up to Homechoice, a video on demand … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2010
As well as the headline price rises, they're getting rid of several travelcards. If you didn't go into zone one (or only did so on the bus) you could have a 2-6 travelcard = currently £5.10 off peak. Not from … Continue reading
Reading through the Evening Standard, I come across a name from the past. There's no picture, but the dates on his online CV add up. If it is the same one, he was an obnoxious young Liberal member of the … Continue reading
One of the things I like about Spotify is being able to find cover versions. That's easier for some songs than others, of course, thanks to the popularity of titles… Radioactivitat (Radioactivity) was the almost title track on Kraftwerk's follow-up … Continue reading
One of the things I am doing at the moment is going through the several hundred tabs I have open on Firefox and doing what I intended to do when I opened them (read the content, comment etc – if … Continue reading
.. but checking one minor detail proves the story's about someone else entirely. Liberals / SoggyDems clearly won too many by-elections in the 1980s for my memory to remember which one was which 🙂 … Continue reading
When the screen on my PC died horribly (see recent post) I looked up what to replace it with and came up with the Benq G2220HD: 22" 1920×1024 that doesn't do HDMI (but then neither does anything here), doesn't have … Continue reading
Mint, being based on Ubuntu, has a remote desktop program that lets you view and control one PC from another. But unless told otherwise, it asks for permission for this on the 'viewed' PC's screen. Clearly, at the moment that's … Continue reading
Yes, the monitor (a 15" lcd from Sharp) died last night. The backlight still works, unlike a friend's laptop, but there's nothing on the screen: no picture, no info text, no menu. Poo. And unless I can turn it off, … Continue reading
Phil Woolas' lies lose election court case. He was the president of NUS in my time as a student and I'm pretty sure his election manifesto included a promise never to be an MP. (At the time, being chair of … Continue reading