Author Archives: blogmywiki

People are strange

Posted on June 15, 2007 by blogmywiki

This morning I was queuing for a train ticket for Charing Cross. There were two people in front of me, both with fairly complicated queries. The ticket machines were free but I had about 5 minutes before my train was … Continue reading →

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I’m not a green toothbrush

Posted on June 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

I’m no ‘green champion’ – I do compost all appropriate kitchen waste and I recycle paper, but have been known to throw tin cans, bottles and plastic in the bin. But this toothbrush makes me mad. It contains a non-replaceable … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who by Dennis Potter

Posted on May 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

Don’t get me wrong – the current episodes of Doctor Who (Human Nature) are just the best ever, and I think David Tennant is the best Doctor ever. But in Doctor Who Confidential over on BBC Three, David Tennant says … Continue reading →

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Why Your Neighbour’s WiFi security is so poor

Posted on May 16, 2007 by blogmywiki

I think I might now know why there are so many unsecured wireless computer networks around. I could never understand this, it seems so stupid to leave your network wide open. Security is easy enough to set up with MacOS … Continue reading →

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WiFi Linux on a shoestring

Posted on May 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

CAUTION: this is a geeky Linuxy post that’s really just here because I’ll forget how I did this in about a week and I might want to do this again some time… Ages ago I put Xubuntu – a cut-down … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, hardware, Linux, operating systems, thrift, Ubuntu, WiFi, XFCE, Xubuntu | 1 Comment