Do Not Install Linux On The Toilet

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

No Snooze

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Somehow (a miracle of fate perhaps), I woke up before my alarm clock went off. Now, as many of you know I don’t get up, as a rule.
Let me give you an example: the night before last I swear I sleep walked all the way to my alarm clock, switched it off and then climbed [...]

Microsoft Office versus OpenOffice (For Students)

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

One of my friends recently found an advert from Microsoft for the Student Edition of Microsoft Office, and with my ever amusing digital image editing skills I tweaked it slightly.
Tell me, oh students out there, which price do you prefer?

Valentine’s Day & Portable Apps

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Not much to say about Valentine’s Day really. It was uneventful. The damn commercialism of the day really does take away its true meaning.
Portable Apps - www.portableapps.com - Fantastic!
I’m now using:

Portable Firefox
Portable Thunderbird
Portable GAIM
And if it wasn’t so large, I’d be using Portable OpenOffice.org

What others are saying about: Valentine, Valentine’s Day, Portable Applications, USB Drives, [...]

Goobuntu - Google’s Operating System

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Goobuntu - The free, open-source operating system from Google.
“When Goobuntu reaches the streets of the U.S and the rest of the planet, Microsoft would be in big problem.
Up until now, the Desktop World has been dominated by Microsoft Operating System and all its family of applications.
Linux has not been able to get into that world, [...]

A Riddle

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

“What has the durability of a sneaker, the smarts of a computer, the color scheme of a lunchbox and the potential to alter almost everything about the way schoolchildren in the developing world learn?”

washingtonpost.com

$100 (£58) laptops. Several scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that they have almost finished creating a highly durable, kid-friendly [...]