Category: Geek

Sad day

March 18, 2008 - Books , Geek - by admin - No Comments

It’s sad news all round, with the death of Captain Birds Eye, and Arthur C Clarke. The Captain being a childhood memory of many people around my age, and Clarke being an author I am massively interested in. After getting involved in his works through the ubiquitous 2001: A Space […]

Vodafone 3G

February 21, 2008 - Geek , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

Looks like someone has taken design classes from Apple, and failed. It is, however, still rather dinky and shiny. Now, if only Vodafone would activate them before they send them out to us, like they used to.

KDE4 on Windows…

February 5, 2008 - Geek , KDE , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

It had to be done 🙂 KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…

The O2 Lives!

January 26, 2008 - Computers , Geek - by admin - 1 Comment

For a while now, my SGI O2 has languished in the cupboard after being diagnosed with an unknown fault. I decided to dig it out again and have a quick look at it. Powering it up seemed successful, and I got the audio chime but no display. A quick bit […]

New Nokia Tablet

October 17, 2007 - Geek , Technology - by admin - 1 Comment

Well, first the Nokia 770 tablet was being sold at cut rates in favour of the new 800. I was sorely tempted to get one of the Â£99 770s as a toy, but just couldn’t justify it to myself (or Charlotte for that matter). The proverbial cat is now out […]