2009 May | Keys Corner

Trompes l’oeil by John Pugh

By John, on May 25th, 2009

The Daily Mail had several pictures of recent work by John Pugh today – they really are worth taking a look at. No pictures here, as I no longer publish pictures unless I’m absolutely sure that I’m not potentially infringing copyright.

Follow this link to the Daily Mail, and if it gives you . . . → Read More: Trompes l’oeil by John Pugh

Copy folders like in Windows, on the Mac

By John, on May 24th, 2009

Apple’s OS X has one “feature” which periodically causes me a lot of grief. Not often, because once I have fallen over it, it takes several years until I forget and make the mistake again. I use Windows PCs at work, and there, if I copy a directory’s contents into another directory, it effectively . . . → Read More: Copy folders like in Windows, on the Mac

Breakfast time

By John, on May 18th, 2009

Not only birds appreciate our bird-feeder!

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I have blocked Telecom’s number 08003009920

By John, on May 9th, 2009

Since the German telecom has been calling our fax number and then disconnecting after 1 second for the last several weeks, I set up a re-routing in our Fritz!box router of calls originating from their number back to their own call center.

The calls continued, so today, I have blocked their number . . . → Read More: I have blocked Telecom’s number 08003009920

Lord Saatchi on property bubble blindness

By John, on May 8th, 2009

There’s a good, short piece by Maurice Saatchi in today’s Times on how the property bubble crept up on us without being noticed. It criticizes the focus – at least in the UK – on the consumer price index, which measures the rate of inflation on the weekly shopping basket, but doesn’t take account . . . → Read More: Lord Saatchi on property bubble blindness

Keep your hands out of our pockets

By John, on May 3rd, 2009

It annoys me that governments in many countries charge you an involuntary license fee for public service TV, whether you actually watch it or not. This might have been a good idea many decades ago, when the infrastructure for TV broadcasting needed to be built up. But these days, when public TV largely duplicates . . . → Read More: Keep your hands out of our pockets

The Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop

By John, on May 1st, 2009

The Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop is the new name for the 190 km long bike race “Rund um den Henninger-Turm“, which had to change its name after the last race in 2008 when the sponsor, the Henninger Brewery, dropped their sponsorship of the race (which has been run annually since 1961).

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