Author Archives: ianmacd
In The Twinkling Of An Eye
It seems as if it were only yesterday that I was registering my daughter’s birth in a stuffy office somewhere in Sunnyvale, California (if I remember correctly). How can it be, then, that I’ve already had to renew her passport? … Continue reading
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Reports Of My Ethernet Big Disk’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
It turns out that my first dedicated network drive, a LaCie Big Ethernet Disk, wasn’t dead as I suspected after all, merely in a state of suspended animation for the last eighteen months. I’ve regularly returned to this LaCie drive … Continue reading
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The Winter That Won’t End
I wouldn’t normally blog about the weather. Even by my standards, it doesn’t get much mundaner than that. How old and farty can you get? Today, though, I feel compelled to remark on the winter we’re having. I can’t recall … Continue reading
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Spoilt For Bike Races
Last year, the Vuelta a España started in Assen. This year, the Giro d’Italia will not only start in Amsterdam, but depart and finish within walking distance of our house, as the following map of the 8.4 individual time-trial illustrates: … Continue reading
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Eye Candy
I mentioned in a recent posting that I’ve worked my way through quite a lot of window managers in my time, and that the dull but functional Metacity has been my steady friend for seven or eight years now. The … Continue reading
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