Tiny cheap solid-state laptop

Posted on October 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

Tired of waiting for the One Laptop Per Child laptop?

How about one of these cuties from RM / Asus? It’ll be £169, uses flash memory not a hard drive, has WiFi and runs Linux. Ticks all the boxes for me…

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How to make cider

Posted on October 7, 2007 by blogmywiki
  1. Fill a toddler’s beaker with apple juice.
  2. Let them hide it in a remote corner of the house.
  3. Find it 2 weeks later – preferably before they do.
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Funny man

Posted on September 30, 2007 by blogmywiki

Aside from a tiny clip from the great long-lost Granada sketch show Alfresco, last night’s Stephen Fry love-in had me laughing myself stupid over this sketch dialogue:

A: I’m just wound up about the divorce. I suppose I did go too far. I emptied trifle over her head.
B: Did she get custody?
A: Yes, she got very custardy.

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Comparing free Content Management Systems

Posted on September 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

Just found a really neat web site that lets you try out the bewildering array of free Content Management Systems that are out there. They mostly need PHP and MySQL and this site saves you the hassle of installing them and setting up a database only to find it doesn’t do what you want.

It’s at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ - well worth a look if you’re as frazzled as I was after googling “Free CMS”.

So far CMS Made Simple is looking good…

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Photos of Conflict

Posted on September 14, 2007 by blogmywiki

Check this out: http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/conflict

Every one of these photos is better than the lame photo that – unaccountably – won the World Press Photo Award this year.

And Robin Lustig – what can I say? He the man.

(If you’re lucky enough to work in Bush House there’s an exhibition of the photos starting next week.)

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