Archive for September, 2009
Forget the iPod, iPhone, or iMac. What I want is an I-Recorder (not an iRecorder); a device that records the internal chatter that is ‘I’. Many are the times that I have thought to myself, ‘how I wish I had written down those thoughts’ or ‘I really should write that down’, but either a pen [ READ MORE ]
Good grief how the day just files by when you’re concentrating. I’ve been focussed on putting together a load of video demonstrations for this online training course I’m writing. Time has just flown by. I’m gradually figuring our an effective (and increasingly efficient) workflow so my hope is that I will continue to increase the [ READ MORE ]
Someone has written a video game that, when played, deletes files from your machine. Each file is associated with an ‘invader’ and each time an invader is killed the corresponding file is deleted from your system. Okay, the game is pointless. Or rather, dangerous to play on your own system. That is not the reason [ READ MORE ]
Okay, this one took a few minutes to nail down. For a while now, my MacBook Pro would suddenly announce I had requested a shut down by displaying the ‘Are you sure?’ dialog. This would be fine, if I had actually asked the damn thing to shut down. This was just a minor irritation at [ READ MORE ]
Wow! Stunning photographs of bats in flight drinking from a garden pond captured by wildlife photographer Kim Taylor. Originally reported in the Daily Mail online[ READ MORE ]
Okay. Sometime in the past couple of months. One of the updates from Apple has fixed my Mail application and it can now open PDF files correctly. (No, I have no idea why it was not working either.) This now allows me to migrate from Thunderbird to the Apple Mail tool. Why? Why Mark? Why [ READ MORE ]
Norman Ernest Borlaug 1914-2009. Who, you might ask, is Norman Borlaug? Norman Borlaug is responsible for saving millions of lives. He was a leader, if not the leader, in his field. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He has worked in some of the poorest countries, all over the world. And [ READ MORE ]
In one sense this is a hollow insignificant victory, but as a symbolic gesture, as a simple public acknowledgement of the follies and injustices of the past it is both significant and welcome. Alan Turing was undoubtedly a brilliant man. When his skills were useful to society to help win World War II he was [ READ MORE ]
It’s so easy. Ooh, look at the shiny thing. That looks interesting. Perhaps there’s something interesting over here. I have been very easily distracted today, and it is far from the first time this has happened. I know I should be concentrating. I know I should be finishing this project. I know I should be [ READ MORE ]
I did do. Writing, it turns out is bloody hard. Not the trivial scribblings on this blog. These are easy. You see, they ‘do not matter’, they are simple, stream of conciousness tracts laid down as much for my own pleasure as for any passing reader. Don’t get me wrong, I do care enough to [ READ MORE ]
