Monthly Archives: February 2008

Twitter ye not

Posted on February 27, 2008 by blogmywiki

I’ve just had an invitation to Twitter. Nooooooooooooooooo. Just before I left Facebook I’d taken to trying to subvert the status thingy by typing in the names of any songs on my iPod that fitted the phrase “Giles Booth is…”. … Continue reading →

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Twinkle, twinkle

Posted on February 26, 2008 by blogmywiki

Sometimes I get bored reading the same stories and singing the same lullabies to my children. So I substitute lines from popular songs. Ten points if you can spot the artists at work here: Twinkle, twinkle little star How I … Continue reading →

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Ha ha ha he he he

Posted on February 22, 2008 by blogmywiki

I’m still not quite sure about Ashes to Ashes, but as I had an idea for a prequel to Life on Mars – set in the 1960s, to be called The Laughing Gnome – I was pleased to see lots … Continue reading →

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Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

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Repairing a G4 ‘Anglepoise’ iMac

Posted on February 17, 2008 by blogmywiki

My son’s school was chucking out a faulty 700 MHz G4 Anglepoise iMac – apprently it had an intermittant fault where the hard drive clicked and it wouldn’t boot. Of course I couldn’t bear to see this become land-fill so … Continue reading →

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