Author Archives: blogmywiki

Perfect Lives

Posted on February 26, 2010 by blogmywiki

Channel 4 used to show stuff like this – Robert Ashley’s ‘opera for televsion’ called Perfect Lives. In 1983 this blew me away. I watched every minute. I think I might have to get the DVD – even on YouTube … Continue reading →

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Simple dual-boot OSX and WindowsXP on Lenovo IdeaPad

Posted on February 21, 2010 by blogmywiki

If you want OS X running on your Lenovo S10 then a retail copy of Snow Leopard and the Snow Leopard Enabler are clearly the way to go. So far pretty much everything seems to work except sleep and ethernet … Continue reading →

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Random lunchtime oddness

Posted on February 12, 2010 by blogmywiki

The other day after 2 hours helping to keep a radio show on air, I stepped out for a breath of air and some shopping. In Tesco’s a man was struggling with the coffee vending machine whilst barking into his … Continue reading →

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It’s no MagicSlate

Posted on January 27, 2010 by blogmywiki

I have long dreamed of a neat, small computer which I called the MagicSlate and I was interested to read that this was one of the names Apple registered for their slate device. I even wrote a story about its … Continue reading →

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OSX on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 – again

Posted on January 22, 2010 by blogmywiki

(behold my – working! – boot-up options, using the old-skool classic GRUB bootloader) I’ve given up trying to get the audio to work on OS X on my IdeaPad’s msiWindOSX install. Could not get Audieee to work. A 10.5.5 update … Continue reading →

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