A few months ago I made a decision: Whatever new ‘iPhone’ Apple reveals at WWDC, I’m not interested. I don’t have any money, and I’m perfectly happy with my iPhone 3G. My intentions were good, but unfortunately I got sucked in by Apple’s Reality Distortion Field along with everyone else. At one point I actually found myself welling up at the promotional video for the new iPhone 4’s Face Time feature; thinking to myself, “I need that.”.
I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid out for you. As a development environment, it’s so easy to get started – and often leaves you thinking “surely it’s not that simple?!” after writing a single line of code. (more…)
For quite some time now I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up a home server. Actually, I’ve setup plenty of home servers over the years but since I moved house I just lost interest. I had a perfectly good NAS, so there seemed little point …
In the past I’ve downloaded numerous Linux distros, installed them on some small unsuspecting box and very quickly got bored. The problem is it was all very well having an old PC sat in the corner of my living room proudly displaying a logo of a penguin, but what could it actually do for me? (more…)
I figured there must be an easier way … maybe I could format a USB drive or memory stick? Well, you can … but the thought dawned on me: If you can boot and install from those media, then why not a CF card in a card reader? My reasoning was that I didn’t want to format either my USB drive or 16Gb memory stick … they have all my files on them! However, my digital camera has a rather healthy 4Gb CF card in it that could easily be formatted.
I haven’t taken that many photos in 2008, and here’s the reason why. Through messing with several old lenses and extension rings to do some marco work I’ve ended up with an unpleasant amount of dust, hair and other crap on the chip. I decided enough was enough. It was Read more…
Ah, at last … a post where I can geek out: I visited IBC this week in Amsterdam (Flickr Photos), and was blown away by the high-def goodies on show. I got back thinking that it was finally time to take the plunge, and upgrade the edit suite to fully Read more…
Ok, ok … so I promised unboxing photos, and I didn’t deliver. I’m very sorry for upsetting the internet (aka. Phil). So, here we are: Click here for all the photos… How beautiful is that? I’ve not really had much time to play with it (more on the reasons in Read more…
I grew up with PCs. Actually, I grew up with my parents, younger sister and an imaginary friend called Rupert … but that’s beside the point. Where was I? Ah … Yes, I’ve grown up with PCs. My first ‘real’ computer was an Amstrad CPC-664. While my friends were busy Read more…