Monthly Archives: April 2003

My eldest son Henry, 3, continues to amaze me. His mum’s been in hospital on and off (mostly on) over the past two weeks, sometimes both his parents vanishing in the night, he awakes to find his grandmother in charge. … Continue reading →

I went for an actual pukka wardrive today – iBook on the passenger seat covered by a jumper, Macstumbler running, audio line out connected to a cassette adapter on the car radio, cruising around… car radio chatting away, so HELLO … Continue reading →

Cringely rocks – while googling for stuff on WiFi, I found this column by Robert X Cringely – and if you don’t think that column proves he’s a genius, read the (currently) current one about Apple not buying Universal Music.

War strolling in SE13 Well I had to go for a war stroll… consume.net suggested there was a potential open access node just two streets away, so I got MacStumbler running, slung the laptop under the pram and took my … Continue reading →

The correct way to get broadband I’d been toying with the idea of getting broadband for ages – a bit pricey at �25 a month, but I thought it would change my life, I’d use the internet more and in … Continue reading →

Emails from the afterlife I was just sorting out my many mailboxes on my computer last night when I found a UKOnline account I must have signed up for and promptly forgotten all about. Out of curiosity I clicked on … Continue reading →

The discussion about iPods not giving ‘true’ random play is quite interesting; it highlights the fact that when we say we want an MP3 player to play ‘randomly’ in fact we mean anything but, and I’m a little surprised that … Continue reading →

Finally got my ADSL working today – after changing the firmware in my router, uploading new login scripts, losing sleep, a clever soul on the Demon technical support line deduced that I’d been using the wrong password for the last … Continue reading →

I was going to try and get my old Othermachines ‘zine working with Blogger, but actually I really like this design, so I think I’ll keep it. After all, surely the whole point of blogs is that they are spontaneous … Continue reading →