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New Toy
For doing a bit of graphic stuff I bought myself a new bit of kit. Basically it means I can draw with a pen on a tablet in a much more natural way than using a mouse. Hopefully have some results to show in a week or so.
Zzzzz
X-factor is on so I’m sitting here with my earplugs in browsing the net between checking up on a friends malfunctioning laptop. Typing this on our own laptop so being a proper geek surrounded by laptops!
New PC
With some of the proceeds of selling the (motor)bike I bought a new PC! First one in a wee while so its been quite a leap in performance. Lorraine inherits the water cooled beastie for email and business stuff! My new one was from Cyberpower – for those that want…
Portal
After completing Half Life 2: Episode II I went to see what else got installed when I bought the Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD). Portal is by far the most imaginative game I have played in a long time – with a portal gun you fire it at…
No wonder it takes so long…
No wonder it takes me so long to update stuff on the PC when I have to compete with this big beast getting in the way. Still, he is quite cute and we don’t mind really. Here he is with our new halloween kitten. Anyway – all the pics are…
Sunny Days
Sitting here in the back garden writing a quick few words on the wireless laptop while enjoying the fantastic weather today. Tennis IBM live scoreboard is on and I’m streaming the footie from the beeb. What ever happened to just have a wee transistor radio eh? Blm
Get Legal
I use openoffice at home as it is a free way of getting all the functionality of MS Office and more. They are currently running a campaign to get people to switch from pirated copies of MS office so I thought I would do my bit by posting a link…
Counter-struck
This is only really meaningful to the lunchtime CS gang so don’t ask me to explain Counter-struck video at google. Blm
Our new Internet Provider
We have just moved up from 512Kbps to 2Mbps with Freedom2surf and it is making quite a difference. I know its not 10Mbps like some of my telewest/ntl connected chums, but its the best we can get !!!! Blm