Last weekend, I played some Neverwinternights (V1) and finished my first run through Witch’s Wake as a Cleric of Tempus and my second run through SoU, in which I played as fighter/thief travelling with Misha Waymeet. I wish I hadn’t played Witch’s Wake which I have reviewed on this bliki, but I am on to Shadohaunt (sic) with my adventurer from Udrentide. …
And then it snowed, a lot!
On Monday, I woke up to the heaviest snow fall I’d seen in years. I live in the south of the country and we don’t often see snow at all, and even less frequently in the cities. …
Mobile viewing
On my sun/oracle blog, I wrote a note on small screen HTML optimisation. One of my first. Frankly, not a project I pursued. …
The EU’s Call 4 for research projects funded by FP7
19th November – The Commission of the European Union have advertised FP7 Call 4 [Press Release]. This is the opportunity to undertake collaborative research into ICT with financial contributions from the Commission. …
Laptop Diaries
Just building up a new laptop for the family, but this one’s MS Vista. I bought a copy of Norton, of course, but had a couple of problems installing MS Office and transferring data. Most of these seeem to be firewall problems, but it does seem that Vista/XP networking might not be as easy as it should. It would seem that Norton (and Microsoft) now have a new version of ‘Secure by Default’, which borrows from the good old security guru’s axiom, ‘if no-one can use it, no one can abuse it.’
On a more serious note, when adopting W95, Microsoft left the 3.11 program explorer interface in place, with XP you have ‘classic’ look and feel themes, I can’t find the retro interface on Vista and I found trying to get it to ‘see’ the exported devices on my home network exceptionally frustrating, and I still don’t know how we got it to work.
For more, see New Laptop, Studio 15 on my wiki. …
Back on the Waves
I spent the day on the Solent at Sun Sail 2008. Its the first time I’ve been. We didn’t do that well, but it was fun all the same.
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Originally posted on my sun/oracle blog, reposted here in July 2016. …
Wireless 3G Modem
I have just learned, thanks to Sean Harris, how to configure my windows laptop to use my Sony K610i as a 3G modem. For more, see 3G…, on my Sony K610i page. A more detailed howto is also on my other blog at blogs.oracle.com/DaveLevy/…. …
Life without the remote control
The remote control handset for Sky’s Digibox gave up to day, I wonder if this is the opportunity I have been looking for to change the way we get our TV. …
My Alienware
My Alienware is still not very well. I need to get it fixed before Danny comes home. …
A second chance for twitter
I decided to give twitter another go and wrote a personal manifesto about my planned use on my sun/oracle blog. The article is interesting for the constraints and twitter’s obvious optimisation for the pre-smart phone mobile. Less interesting for its pompousness. …