Monthly Archives: October 2006

Show me the content

October 20, 2006

I saw the story about Clare Short resigning on Google News and clicked through to the story on the Times’ website. Now, here’s a screenshot of what I saw: Pin It Where’s the actual content?!? Top quarter of the page is advertising and headers, two thirds of the rest is standard navigation, contextual navigation and [...]

I hate to be negative about this…

October 17, 2006

I’ve got a carrier bag full of 35mm negatives from photos I took over my teenage years. (The negatives are in the little paper wallets, not directly in the bag itself.) They are mostly of sentimental value rather than photos of great artistic merit. I’d like to get them digitised so I have a backup, [...]

Sodding Seagate

October 12, 2006

Grrr @ Seagate. w/b 4th September 2006. I suspected the hard disk in my Meeja Box was dying. It failed to mount partitions on boot, with fairly typical CRC kernel error messages shown. The Seagate SeaTools diagnostic CD and floppy disk reported bad sectors and the box locked hard during testing. I checked all the [...]

I must be a *proper* advocate now

October 11, 2006

In the last couple of weeks or so, Jono has added me to Planet Advocacy. This must mean that “some point” as finally been arrived at. Pin It He has wisely taken a categorised RSS feed, so I have to make sure I tag posts up properly. Most of my advocacy is done through the [...]

I want an Ubuntu lanyard

October 10, 2006

We have ID cards at work but the plastic clips that attach the card holders to clothing aren’t very strong. So lanyards are a popular option. I’ve been given a second-hand plain grey lanyard. It’s not very clean, either. So I want to combine some snazzy neck attire with advocacy and wear a lanyard that [...]

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