http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki life's a beach and then you die Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The shame of it... I had my brain surgically removed by a very nice man in the shop and he gave me a shiny new iPhone 3GS in exchange. In case you've not heard of the iPhone, it's a bit like an iPad only it is not only conveniently pocket-sized, ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/03/best-free-iphone-apps/ I forgot to put my book in my bag today, and so bought a new copy of Before I Die by Jenny Downham in Waterstones on my way in to work. Inside it there was a handmade, hand-written Valentines card - four felt red hearts and the inscription "to you, ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/03/dont-forget-to-be-awesome/ Today I am mostly playing with the BBC iPlayer, Flickr and YouTube on the free Boxee media centre software on my netbook and listening to Gaggle... and yes, thank you very much to the person who said I should stick to Pixie Lott. You know who you are... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/02/gaggle-and-boxee/ 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 it looks like the remastering has worked well. Mind you, ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/02/perfect-lives/ 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 (though I've not tried the latter) on my S10-2. Crucially, ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/02/simple-dual-boot-osx-and-windowsxp-on-lenovo-ideapad/ 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 mobile phone: "Yeah, right, the thing was Barry, I had ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/02/random-lunchtime-oddness/ 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 developers. But that's another, er, story. But the iPad - it ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/01/its-no-magicslate/ (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 trashed the OS. I re-installed msiWindOSX and the fricking Terminal app ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/01/osx-on-a-lenovo-ideapad-s10-2-again/ It's 'Own Clothes Day' at my children's schools today, to raise money for Haiti. At breakfast I explained to my daughter, 4, what the money was for. She said 'we know a song about an earthquake.' I'd seen a Met Office primary school weather song sheet ('I hear thunder' to the tune ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/01/every-little-earthquake/ The aim: to get my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook to allow me to boot into Mac OS X, Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Remix as and when I need each OS - and to get a nice clean Windows install at the time, free of all the crud that comes ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2010/01/triple-boot-os-x-windowsxp-and-linux-on-a-lenovo-ideapad-s10-2/