Last night Jayne and I unwound by watching Die Hard 4.0 ((or Live Free Die Hard as it was called in the US)) on DVD. The plot is quite easy to explain – its the same as the first three films.
Entries Tagged as 'Computing'
Ken Sent Me
January 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
The local branch of Game had a couple of CDs of old Sierra games in their sale. One had 5 Leisure Suit Larry games and the other had 6 Space Quest games on it, and they all work on XP. I couldn’t resist them, and have spent the last few days playing games that I […]
Good deeds
November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good deeds · Work
My good deed for today was nothing more than persuading someone else to do a good deed, not that he took much persuading. The Broadfield Community Centre was recently given a decent network colour laser printer. Last week I wired it all up to their hub and then ran into a brick wall when I […]
All wiki’d out
September 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology, Work
After work today I went straight up to London for a sort of conference on web 2.0 stuff, with an emphasis on using wikis in business. It sounds like the sort of thing I am about 20 years too old for, and maybe I am, but it was a reasonably diverting evening. The theme was […]
Up to speed
August 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Up to speed · Technology
After much nagging I got around to re-installing Windows XP on Charlie’s computer today. It was my fault for giving him the idea really: I was getting very frustrated with his PC being so slow. Every time he wanted help with something I could not believe how long it took just to start up and […]
Slavery
August 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Slavery · Life
Its 200 years since the abolition of slavery – but about a month since I was sold into slavery myself. Not that it has had much of an impact on my lifestyle. It was all Jayne’s idea. She decided it would be a good idea to have an auction at the Broadfield Community Centre fete […]
Plausible fact time
July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Plausible fact time · Work
If you went around all the offices in the UK and collected every ream of photocopying paper which is sitting underneath a computer monitor to raise it up 5 centimetres you could build a stack of paper which would reach three-quarters of the way to the moon.
Museum Pieces
July 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I do like the idea of this: hot on the heels of having a museum of computing at Bletchley Park comes the idea of a museum for computer games. It might sound like a trivial thing to devote a museum to, but if we can have whole rooms dedicated to silver thimbles in the V&A […]
On Safari
June 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
This evening I downloaded Safari from Apple to see what it is like. it is not that I am unhappy with Firefox, but there is a sort of novelty value to having Safari running under Windows and a certain amount of hype about it, so I thought I would see if any of it was […]
What’s a magazine Grandad?
June 9th, 2007 · Comments Off on What’s a magazine Grandad? · Work
I have been reading the trade paper Computing, or similar publications for more than 20 years. At first I felt it was a good idea to keep up-to-date with industry goings-on as I was in an IT job within a major computer manufacturer. Now its more out of habit than anything else. The industry has […]
