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Reasons to make back-ups #1

August 2nd, 2005 1 Comment

This post starts with the phrase Having just set up the Internet Explorer 7 beta on my machine but does not concern ruining my system with Microsoft’s latest.

Having just set up the Internet Explorer 7 beta on my machine, I set about checking some of my sites (and sites of those close to me) to [...]

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Today I dropped my iPod

August 1st, 2005 3 Comments

You know that feeling of unrelenting terror? Well, scale it down to the relative importance of an iPod and a 3’ drop.

It was sitting on the desk next to me, wired in and I scoot across the floor on the executive chair I have at work. Looking back, I could just see the agonising moment [...]

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IE7 Beta Imminent

July 28th, 2005 4 Comments

The long awaited first beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7 has surfaced, and some screenshots with it.

The beta is only going to be officially available to MSDN subscribers (so not public), but Microsoft have released a technical overview, offering details on the new features and bug fixes. You can find that on MSDN. If [...]

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Small changes

July 27th, 2005

This is my promised not about the Mac post.

I’ve found the inclination to tweak the layout of this ‘ere blog wassit a little. Partially because of the pending jumping to Wordpress and thus I’m trimming cruft that’s going to disappear or change. I’m also pulling out the pieces that were either useless through their implementation [...]

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iBook followup: I love

July 17th, 2005 3 Comments

My iBook arrived on Thursday, as predicted. It’s a glorious feat of engineering, I must say. Every part of it says ‘well built’ on it (figuratively, I mean). I love OS X like it were my child (I’m not a parent. If I ever have children I expect to revoke that statement immediately). I love [...]

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