Archive for August, 2005
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
It seems even some elements of the music industry are coming to the conclusion that music sharing is inevitable and should be embraced and those that share should not be persecuted. Sony BMG has partnered with british digital music outfit Playlouder MSP to make its music catalog available online. It will ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
You know how when your working you get to see far and distant places. Well today I saw the motorway from Stockholm Arlanda Airport to the Stockholm Sweden office, it was really nice..
Hmm.. Now to go home, I’m sure Stockholm is a loverly city to visit, when I actually get ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
I had the misfortune today to need to find some thing on the NHS website, after about 40 minutes of looking I eventually found what I was after. Now this could have been found a lot quicker if the stupid site firstly could take a London W1 postcode and do ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
Right so got a mac mini and want to improve the performance, simple replace the standard hard disk with something else. I switched the 80Gb 5400 rpm Seagate disk in mine for a 80Gb 7200 rpm Hitachi disk and as you can see from the following xbench comparison there is ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
This next few days are going to be hecktic, tomorrow I fly to Stockholm for an afternoon meeting then back home tomorrow evening. Then as a result of tomorrows meeting we will have more info to analyse for the job I’m currently doing and wanting a report by Friday/Monday.
To top ...
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Monday, August 15th, 2005
Ok, last week I was nackered for most of the week and craved sleep. Tonight I cannot sleep, went to bed over an hour ago and just had to get up and do something cos I just couldn't sleep. In so much I was tossing and turning so much I ...
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Sunday, August 14th, 2005
Well close of the England 2nd Inns and we’re 422 ahead, having just declared on 280 for 6 with a super 106 from Strauss and some handy innings from Bell and Trescothick, I think we’re set for a nail biting end me thinks. Maybe a little this evening against the ...
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Sunday, August 14th, 2005
So day 4 of the cricket, England are firmly on top, currently got more than a 200 run lead and we seem to be doing well. Have to say that Shane Warne did really well with the bat today, tho he probably got a bit of a blood rush at ...
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
This weekend is Old Trafford for the Ashes, yesterday England put in a solid performance to get good 444 after one and a half days.. Now the Australians are really screwed, end of the second day Australia are 210 for 7, 234 behind and dangerously close to the follow on.. ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
It is Wednesday and I'm knackered, dunno why but this week has been very tiring. Oddly nothing to much has been going on tho..
Ordered the Apple Bluetooth + Airport upgrade option for the Mac Mini yesterday from Macwarehouse it turned up today and I installed it this evening and it ...
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