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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Online Mind Mapping Tool

Posted on Sunday, April 27 , 2008 by John

Both Ruth and I use mind mapping when we are gathering ideas for a presentation or for a new document we have to write. Not all employers are happy with the idea that their employees install software on their PCs … Continue reading →

Posted in On the web

Unsubscribe me – waterboarding

Posted on Wednesday, April 23 , 2008 by John

See Amnesty’s latest film showing what George Bush calls an acceptable ‘enhanced interrogation technique’. Sign up to unsubscribe-me.org.

Posted in General

Microsoft DRM woes

Posted on Wednesday, April 23 , 2008 by John

If you bought music from Microsoft’s MSN Music Store, you need to make sure you have it installed on the computer and operating system version that you intend to use for the rest of your life before August 31st 2008. … Continue reading →

Posted in General

Spring is finally here

Posted on Sunday, April 20 , 2008 by John

At last, after the recent snow, it has warmed up and some of the foreign birds have arrived from warmer climes. These ducks arrived today and are making themselves useful eating the duckweed in our pond.

Posted in Family / This Site

Selexyz Dominicanen

Posted on Monday, April 14 , 2008 by John

Next time we drive past Maastricht, we are going to take a look at Selexyz Dominicanen. There’s an article in the Guardian architecture section about this book shop in a converted church, and it looks spectacular. The architects were Merkx … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Reading matter, Travel

‘Apothekenpreise’ – soon history?

Posted on Tuesday, April 08 , 2008 by John

In Germany, if something is ridiculously expensive for what it is, we refer to it having an Apothekenpreis (pharmacy price). If you’ve seen a typical Germany pharmacy (or chemist), you’ll understand why. They are usually fitted out with the top-of-the-market … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Europe

Reformatting Windows (NTFS) disks for Mac OS X

Posted on Sunday, April 06 , 2008 by John

I’ve bought several external hard drives recently to use for backing up under Leopard. Getting them reformatted from the pre-formatted Windows NTFS partition to Macintosh Extended Journaled has been unexpectedly problematical – usually the best chance has been to reformat … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, On the web
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