Year: 2005

  • X-Box Time

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    To Dad, Happy Christmas, from Dad. Thanks, me! Halo 2 is great. It’d be even better if I could get the hang of the bloody controller. The Dolby Digital sound through my home cinema setup makes up for my temporary clumsiness, enjoyment-wise.

  • Stuff everywhere

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  • Zzzzz

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  • Tax Return

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    Woohoo! I finally submitted my tax return for last year! That took a while. The Inland Revenue online submission tools are actually very good though. I hope I got it right…

  • Hi, my name is Sam, and I’m an infoholic

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    OK, I admit it. I have a problem. I think I’ve had this problem for some years now. I’m a geek and I am addicted to information. Right now I’ve got 6 tabs open in my browser, each working with quite different subjects. But that’s not the thing. The thing is that I just saw…

  • Off

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    It was just one of those times when, in all the universe, a car door wanted to be in exactly the same space as me at exactly the same time. What are the odds of that? I’m writing this on the train. I got knocked off about an hour ago, and had to walk to…

  • Evening Tipple

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  • Headphones

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    I’m on the train, listening to Coldplay on my iPod. With in-ear headphones. Which are very good at cutting out valley chatter. And yet I can still hear the leaking noise from someone else’s headphones. Holy crap. Get some consideration/decent earphones. There can’t be much sound left to actually go to his ears. Dick.

  • Mac mini media centre

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    Mac mini media centre. This is what Kim was wanting to do. I’ve already got a very nice mini-ITX PC that does the job though. Mind you, the Mac software is a lot better than what my media centre PC uses…

  • New Apple products

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    Holy crap. Some of the products people have been guessing at have just gone on show at the Apple website. Firstly, check out the new Mac mini, a tiny PC measuring 5cm x 16.5cm x 16.5cm. Now you can buy a Mac and use your existing monitor, keyboard and mouse. It starts at only £339,…