Author Archives: blogmywiki

Apple are making it hard for me to love them at the moment. I’ve been spending a huge amount of time fixing up my mother-in-law’s Bondi Blue iMac; decided early on to cut my losses and wipe the hard drive … Continue reading →

Hoppipola by Sigur Ros is a great song. I kept meaning to get the album it’s on. But then I keep hearing it on TV. It was on all the ads for Planet Earth on BBC1. I turned on the … Continue reading →

We need another computer, but can’t afford one right now. So I thought I’d try and make use of an old laptop that was going spare – a Toshiba Tecra 8000. It had Windows98 on it, but was so slow … Continue reading →

Got a free CD-ROM with the newspaper yesterday, advertising Sony Bravia TVs. You know the one with the cool ad with all the colourful bouncing balls bouncing down hills in San Fransisco. The CD-ROM said Windows-only, but I looked at … Continue reading →

Overheard snippet of mobile phone conversation on the train this evening: “Of course the thing that he hates is the marriage proposal that comes with every cup of coffee…” Obviously I’ve been going to the wrong branch of Starbucks.