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1%ers

22-Jul-08

I am one.
Mobileme sucks in comparison to Gmail.

Photo from iboff.
That is all.

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Radiohead Nude Remix

06-Jun-08

Starring:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer – Drums
HP Scanjet 3c – Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array – Act as a collection of bad speakers – Vocals & FX
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
You have to wait for the Spectrum to load, but give it time. The background [...]

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Apple customer service and Time Machine

18-May-08

I’ve just got back from Birmingham’s Apple Store. My Macbook hard drive was failing to boot, and making disturbing clunking noises. After some diagnostics, which took some time, it was found my hard drive was totally shredded. They fitted a new one on the spot, and re-installed Leopard up to the start-up video. Excellent customer [...]

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Short book reviews

14-May-08

Readers may be interested to note that short-book reviews can be inserted into amazon urls. I have taken off the catalogue numbers for the purposes of display within the column of this blog, but clicking through to amazon will show the effect in your address bar.
For example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben_Goldacre_is_everywhere_like_God
http://www.amazon.co.uk/how-to-exploit-the-sick-for-profit

http://www.amazon.co.uk/most_alternative_medicine_is_a_pile_of_crap
http://www.amazon.co.uk/an-attempt-to-kill-children-with-pseudoscience
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boris_Johnson_blunders_again
I’m sure people can think of better ones than [...]

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Good old-fashioned jacked-up antibiotics

12-May-08

Just testing Podpress. Risk-benefit discussion from American Cliche.

 
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iFool

11-Aug-07

Some people are attempting to shortcut evolution to make up for design shortcomings:
Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. At least, he did, until he had his thumbs surgically altered in a revolutionary [...]

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No more Beta!

08-May-07

My friend Simon Whitaker has created the site No More Beta!, in a fit of desperation I think, in order to counter the misuse of the letter beta in web applications.
Personally, I think he himself oversteps the mark by tacitly accepting the term Web 2.0 in his explanation. Such a transgression is deserving of a [...]

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Just talking

18-Apr-07

These days there is an automatic assumption that when you give a talk, you’ll be using a Powerpoint presentation. Next week, I’ll be talking about warfarin drug interactions at a conference. As usual I’ve been asked to send in my powerpoint presentation early, so it can be provided in note form for the attendees. Rather [...]

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PC who uses a Mac

06-Feb-07

If you read online newspapers you have probably seen one of the new Mitchell and Webb adverts for Apple. My favourite is “Tentacle of the Octopus“.
Charlie Booker, in another splendid column, isn’t impressed by Macs.
In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say [...]

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