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  • How to rejoin the EU

    How to rejoin the EU

    That Brexit: it’s falling apart faster than I thought, what with the fishing fuck up and the closure i.e. suspension of one of the Nissan production lines. I was ruing my new …
  • WINE

    WINE

    The windows software emulator, not more booze. Wine is not an Emulator, it seems. This was originally written in about 2011 when I tried to install NWN on my Mac (For more, …
  • Sony K610i

    Sony K610i

    I have replaced my V600i mobile phone with a K610i from Vodafone. For some reason they wouldn’t buy me a red one. Here’s what I did with it.
  • Gardening

    Gardening

    I keep a gardening log, it’s been going since 2009. Here are my notes/log.
  • Redshift

    Redshift

    Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications  (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and …
  • San Francisco

    San Francisco

    I have worked for Californian based companies twice, and visited San Francisco a number of times. Sun Microsystems moved its training conference from San Francisco to Las Vegas and so my time …
  • Mavericks

    Mavericks

    a.k.a. MacOS X.9 I said in my article on upgrading MacOS that this was easy to do, it was, but the resultant performance rendered it unusable. This article discusses what I did …