Spotted on Andy Budd’s weblog:
I always thought the books displayed cover out at bookshops were done so because the staff liked the books or they were good sellers. It wasn’t until I dipped my toes in the publishing world that I found out you actually have to pay for your books to be presented this [...]
I hope they duck when the bells ring…
We spent about a week actually in Spain, the rest of the time we were either travelling in France or at the Quilt Expos in Lyon. We found plenty of good places to eat along the way, revisiting one of our favourite restaurants, in Navarra, for a birthday [...]
We are going to get away from the hysterics of the World Cup for a couple of weeks. Driving down to S. France and probably N. Spain; stopping in Lyon on the way back to visit the Patchwork & Quilt Expo – it’s the largest exhibition of its kind in the world (as always, I [...]
Now I can think seriously about upgrading to an Intel-based Mac
Patrick Luby has just announced that the alpha version of NeoOffice 2.0 for Intel Macs is available. (It is one of the few applications that can not run on an Intel platform using Apple’s Rosetta emulation software, due to restrictions regarding running [...]
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The Palm Treo smart-phones don’t have the ability to disable the auto-power-off feature when they are in the cradle or just if you want to keep them powered up for more than three minutes (e.g. if you are running navigation software).
There’s a neat utility called NoAutoOff (scroll to the bottom of the discussion to [...]
… peanuts? (With appologies to vowe
The micro-budget film Tarnation directed by Jonathan Caouette and shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, cost $400,000. The cost of making the film was around $200, the rest was fees for music and video clip royalties. It is time legislators put more restraints on greedy music and video companies.
Currently the author is [...]
