Category Archives: Technology
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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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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Of Old Dogs And New Tricks
Once upon a time, as an avid computer user and someone who even made his living in the field of IT, I used to regularly revisit my working habits and make incremental refinements to my methods and the set of … Continue reading
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More Face-lifting
Two site updates in as many days. I’ve been busy. I’m continuing to get to know WordPress, delving into the guts of the system to understand how widgets, themes and plug-ins work. The more I see, the more I’m impressed. … Continue reading
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Change We Need
You’ll have noticed that things look a little different today. It was time for a change. I’d been using Movable Type for many years; more than five, at least. When I first started using it, it seemed flexible and powerful, … Continue reading
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