It’s not that often that I buy new computer hardware. But, a few weeks ago, I felt the time had finally come to replace my ageing notebook with something a bit faster. Since portability isn’t really a big thing this year (as I use my computer at home only), I thought I’d build a desktop.
The [...]

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I thought I’d make a post to talk about my newest piece of software. It’s called Instant Elevator Music.
Instant Elevator Music is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a program that plays elevator music while you wait for your computer to do [...]

There’s an annoying issue with the latest version of WordPress. If you use the XML-RPC interface to post blog posts (anyone using Windows Live Writer, w.bloggar, or any other desktop blogging software) you’ll notice that < and > tags are stripped from the output. This means formatting in posts will be screwed up, and you’ll [...]

Here’s an interesting article on how the IBM TrackPoint was developed, how it was dismissed and forgotten about, and how it suddenly became the feature that made IBM ThinkPads the best notebooks on the market. For those who don’t know, the TrackPoint is the pointing stick found on IBM, Toshiba, the business Dells, and a [...]