Category: devices

This post has been sparked off from watching the trailer for the upcoming movie by Satoshi Kon called Paprika set to open in the USA this week. During it, there’s a quote from the New York Times praising the film, saying: “Evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American… Continue reading Hold on tight to your imagination

Where else in the world do you get a staged event full of so many different cultures? It’s a blast. Sure, the voting is beyond farcicle these days, where it feels more like ‘which country needs the injection of cash from tourism and media spotlight this time?’. Sure, neighbouring countries vote for each other as… Continue reading Eurovision: A reason to celebrate

Just a quick post to celebrate a mini-milestone. I’ve just realised that my World Community Grid clients have clocked up over a year of run time towards helping research projects in areas such as muscular dystrophy and looking for potential AIDS cures. I started running the software on my Windows Server box two years ago,… Continue reading A year in the grid

The reason for this post has been triggered by me reading an excellent article by Dave Jewell called Vista – End of the Dream?. I encourage you to go read the whole thing but I particularly felt a lot of sympathy with his comments about maintainability of code. Ok puns aside, I don’t know how… Continue reading How tired is Vista, baby?

In my quest to play with the macro feature on my digital camera, I became intregued with a large group of ladybirds who appeared in my garden a couple of years back. Ever since then, I’ve been interested in them. Recently I was hanging out this white fleece blanket on the line to dry and spotted that a friendly garden visitor had paused  to take rest. The beauty of having a 3.2Mp Sony Ericsson K800i it enables… Continue reading Ladybirds

Well it all went a bit ‘Pete Tong’ two weeks ago when my server decided to get a few critical bad sectors on its main drive forcing a reinstall from scratch. In many ways its been a good process because for a while I’ve been wanting to upgrade the OS running on the box and… Continue reading Hold!