Author Archives: blogmywiki

I Have Measured My Life In Server Rooms

Posted on March 21, 2007 by blogmywiki

There we are, title for a slim volume of terse verse about working with computers. By the T.S.Eliot of the IT Crowd. I mean, he worked in Lloyds Bank for heaven’s sake…

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Get down on your knees

Posted on March 10, 2007 by blogmywiki

Both exmonkey and I have noticed this: our jeans used to wear out at the crotch and now they wear out at the knees. Changing nappies, you see. Cyril Connolly is supposed to have said ‘the pram in the hallway … Continue reading →

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Insanely Great Freeware

Posted on February 28, 2007 by blogmywiki

While I’m thinking of it, here’s some of the great – free – software I put on the kids’ computer… most are cross-platform. MAME – play old arcade games, relive your mis-spent youth, get your kids to mis-spend theirs Audacity … Continue reading →

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Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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Dreams come true

Posted on February 25, 2007 by blogmywiki

I kept dreaming of a new kind of laptop. I kept drawing it and doodling it. It would be about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, have Wifi, run some kind of Linux and – crucially – have … Continue reading →

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