“Mapping” on the web
Literature Map: Results for Neil Gaiman Try out the Literature Map to find authors who you might like – type in the name of an author and it will give you a cloud of names to try, who should appeal … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Grab your OS X utilities for your Dell Laptop while you can
OS X drivers and utilities for your Dell Latitude X1 I don’t imagine this offer will be up for very long, but at the moment if you want to try running Apple’s OS X operating system on a Dell Latitude … Continue reading
Compare typefaces with each other
American Typewriter (left) compared to Rockwell Yes, this site has been around for a year or so, but it is still handy if you want to compare how 2-3 typefaces appear on the screen: Typetester. Change the foreground and background … Continue reading
Handy free spelling-checker
If you have access to the web, you can check your spelling in 27 languages using Orangoo’s Spell Check.
One more defense against spam-comments
As the number of spam-comments that Akismet has stopped being posted to my blog has now reached over 6600 (up from 1800 on May 2nd this year!), I’ve decided to activate a second line of defence and make it more … Continue reading
Server upgrade
Linksys NLSU2 and external hard disk We’ve been using a Linksys NLSU2 server to connect a couple of external disk drives to our network so that we can make backups to the hard disks and also run mt-daapd to broadcast … Continue reading
Some things take longer than you might reasonably expect
I didn’t realise that the Korean war (1950 – 1953) still hasn’t formally ended until I read today that the USA is thinking of offering to sign a peace treaty with N. Korea. Currently, the only thing stopping the war … Continue reading
Roku confusion
If you’re thinking of buying a Roku Soundbridge and want to use it with iTunes, you need to be very careful what you buy. Roku is selling the Soundbridge under the Roku brand name and licensed to Pinnacle (“powered by … Continue reading
Funny ads
I hadn’t noticed these before, but they are all quite funny (via Steve Castledine)
Time for the dollar to fall?
The Economist has been saying for several years that the US dollar is overvalued and that what goes up must come down. Now the Managing Director of one of America’s leading fixed income managers (Bill Gross at Pimco), has expressed … Continue reading