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Page's Page: April 2008
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Sunday, 27 April 2008. As is my way when I have exams I needed to find something foolish to do to distract me from the horrors of revision. So a few days ago I installed Ubuntu 8.04. Much is made of whether Linux is ready or not for the desktop, and has been for several years. Many moons ago I installed RedHat on my desktop, and more recently (perhaps about 2003/4) I installed SuSE. 24GHz Pentium 4 processor. It sets up your user accoun...
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Page's Page: January 2007
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Sunday, 28 January 2007. Monday, 22 January 2007. Comic, as in the noun rather than the adjective. Tuesday, 16 January 2007. One of the troubles with contemplating public expenditure is the vast sums of money involved. One can easily understand what a few hundred pounds equates to - perhaps a new piece of furniture. This can be extended to the thousands for extensions to a house or yearly salaries. Yes, the Crail varies with time as the...
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Page's Page: May 2008
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Saturday, 3 May 2008. Yes, but its the wrong one! Friday, 2 May 2008. The TV crews have packed up! There arent many ways to spin this: Labour got one of their worst kickings in history and the Tories did very well. Thursday, 1 May 2008. Now we just wait. The polls are still open for another hour, but after that theres nothing until 0900 tomorrow when the count starts. Im navigated the poorly signed polling station and have cast my vote ...
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Page's Page: Nokia: The Turkey's Dilemma
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Saturday, 12 February 2011. Nokia: The Turkey's Dilemma. In the past few days about Nokia's decision to team up with Microsoft. Some of it has been bordering on delusional. As fans of the firm lose their objectivity and close their eyes, hoping that the firm's troubles will vanish. The reality is that Nokia is in serious trouble, something that CEO Stephen Elop seems to understand from the briefing he sent round. Nokia haven't really go...
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Page's Page: Swing
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Friday, 2 May 2008. The TV crews have packed up! There arent many ways to spin this: Labour got one of their worst kickings in history and the Tories did very well. Well enough, it seems, to make Mr Johnson the new Mayor of London, although it pains me to write that. The Assembly will presumably be chocked full of blue, so our new Mayor will have no need to moderate his plans for his budgets to be approved. View my complete profile.
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Page's Page: Nexus S - Two weeks in
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Wednesday, 2 February 2011. Nexus S - Two weeks in. I've seen a fair few user reviews of all sorts of products, from technology devices to bags of crisps. User reviews tend to suffer from one of two problems - that of rationalisation. Or using a review to take a few pops at the supplier because the user feels mightily aggrieved. Before I start, a fair question is "Why review a phone"? In the days of my Nokia 3210. The phone is certainly...
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Page's Page: July 2006
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Friday, 7 July 2006. A walk in July. I went for a walk this morning. The news crews have gathered (or been told to congregate as such) around Upper Woburn Place and the south end of Endsleigh Street. They were frantically laying cables, testing equipment and getting just the right angle for their shot of the location the number 30 exploded. On seeing the media vans some passers by seemed more aware of the date, although this for...I wal...
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Page's Page: Simple backup software
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Sunday, 2 May 2010. A while ago I lost too many pictures when my hard drive failed - since then I've been desperate to ensure that I don't have this happen again. A good principle with data is that if you don't have at least two copies of any given file, you don't really have it at all. I have used online backup services - Mozy. It backs up to ZIP files, each file no larger than 200MB. From JAM Software. It isn't free, costing ̈́...
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Page's Page: Service Sector
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Whatever came to me about wherever I was, which was probably London. Sunday, 6 February 2011. I was feeling pretty self-assured and prepared. I had the 3 website. Open in front of me as I dialed T-Mobile to ask for my PAC. So that I could transfer to three. I had a friend. Stay at my house the following few days while over from Shanghai. He'd picked up an Orange SIM card (£10) upon landing at Heathrow, and then phoned up to enable the card, activate the confusingly-named Dolphin. With perhaps only 3 offe...
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