Geeky

Someone, please invent an app that I can send an SMS to, which will redirect incoming calls to a number I specify. Yes, I left my phone at home.

Clickety clackety click. Yes indeedy, I’m firing on all cylinders here, and the room resounds to the rat-a-tat of my spiffy new keyboard. It’s a Das Keyboard Model S Professional UK and I love it to bits. As a typewriter, it’s the best. Not just the noise but the spacing, pitch and feel of the [...]

I’m still reeling from a purchase last night: a 1Tb hard drive for 109 euros. First, who would ever have thought that I would need a 1Tb hard drive? And secondly, who would ever have thought that I could get one for chump change?

That’s it. I’m officially calling it off. My long-standing love affair with ecto is officially over. ecto is what is known as a third-party blogging client. A bit like email software, it lets you write a blog post while offline and then upload it when you’re happy with it. Last night it ate a long [...]

Nothing says “I’m excited” like a bouncing happy face emoticon. Wanna bet?

John Gruber, a man whose opinions I value, thinks Stock Names “might be the cleverest promotion campaign I’ve ever seen“. It’s not bad, I agree, as a shill for something called Widgetfinger, a content management system. The claim is that the entire Stock Names page took less than 10 minutes from registering the domain name [...]

Boffins are worrying that when Australian farmers can sell carbon sequestration, they might prefer to earn more doing that than growing wheat. That will increase the world price of wheat. So the farmers will grow wheat. So what happens to the carbon? But we can do both; increase yield by increasing soil carbon “I don’t [...]

It has been hectic this past week, hence the lack of activity here. I took the time this weekend to upgrade to the new version of WordPress and for the first time ever felt let down. On another blog the entire process just stopped. I carried on and hand-rolled it, because I was in the [...]