Archive for the 'Misc' Category

New Blog : Dummies and Death Rays

Not content with a new baby and the lack of sleep that comes with it, I’ve been playing around with blogger and have thrown together another blog called Dummies and Death Rays. MY plan was to review some books I like, and maybe post some relevant news but I might take it further and see [...]

Simplify Web Pages for Reading With TidyRead

I read a lot online, including a lot of short fiction magazines and websites with lengthy articles but I’m often put off by the page layouts or design when what I really want is the text.
Previously I’ve cut and paste text and put it on my ereader,  I’ve written scripts to scrape the text automatically [...]

Free Tutorial Book – The Complete Guide to Google Wave

I’ve had a Google Wave account for a little while now but haven’t really had a chance to spend much time playing with it. To be honest I fired it up, thought “OK what now” and promptly forgot about it.
Partly this is because it’s not immediately clear how best to use the thing and partly [...]

Ad Placement Fail

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The Most Incredibly Lifelike Baby Monkey Ever!

Yeah because all the other ones I’ve bought have looked like crap.

Nokia N900 On the Way

Nokia are releasing a new model in their line of internet tablets, this time with GSM/Cellular connectivity as well as the usual wireless options. 32GB on board, GPS, ARM Cortex, 5MP camera….forget the Apple tablet, I want.

Shiny New Toy

Have been feeling ill the last few days so it was nice surprise when the postman turned up with a nice new gadget for me to play with.
I read a lot of ebooks but I’ve been suffering a bit staring at bright screens so I’ve finally invested in something with an e-ink screen [...]

Back again

Saved my PC from certain death and now back with a fresh OS install so I can once again resume my meaningless rambling.
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Political Correctness Hasn’t Gone Mad

“It’s PC gawnn maadd innit”…
Why do I keep hearing variations on that vacuous statement, even from people I thought were rather more rational.
Political correctness where it even exists is basically a way of stopping bigoted twunts (and those old people who don’t mean to…bless ‘em) from calling people names. It hasn’t “gone mad” and in [...]

Justice? – Britains Youngest “Terrorist” Gets Two Year Sentence

From The Times:
Hammaad Munshi, who was taking his GCSEs when he was arrested, was part of a cell of cyber-groomers which set out to brainwash the vulnerable to kill “non-believers”. He was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of making a record of material likely to be useful for terrorism over a guide to the manufacture [...]