Month: August 2003
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Severn Bridge
I’m driving to an abbatoir in Wootten Bassett (by Swindon) to pick up some “meat industry waste” today. A very dull motorway drive in a very dull Ford Fusion.
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Worms
Flipping heck, I wrote this entry once but it didn’t get posted. Anyhoo: We got hit by three worms today, just in our office. This on top of spending the last week clearing the Klez worm AND Kuang, which had infected almost every .exe and .com file, knackering the machine. I ended up having to…
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iBook
The iBook is doing well. I’ve already added an airport wireless network card (bargain from eBay) and another 256MB of RAM (from work). These Macs really need the extra memory and it’s running a lot faster now. OS X looks very memory hungry with all these flashy graphics and funky transitions. I just need to…
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Swim photos
Oops. I was supposed to go to Porthcawl and take photos of the triathletes training in the sea for the website. I totally forgot. I really should set alarms on my Tungsten to remind me of weekend appointments. Doh!
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Mac
This new Mac is working very well. The operating system is very easy to use, and the included software is superb. Working at Cardiff University lets me use all the big pieces of software on my Mac that I use on the PC for no extra cost. The iBook screen is excellent, the battery life…