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  • Haven’t blogged in a while

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t blogged in a few months but I have been tweeting, and working full time, and I’m attempting Nanowrimo once again this year. Last year the process was easier as I had a lot of free time. This year I need to make time. I did get to over 20,000…

  • (CR)apple and authorisation issues.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo doubt you remember that my laptop motherboard died. The effects are still being felt today. When you have applications, and when you have several computers you authorise them in order to have access to the same applications and music on more than one machine. This works fine most of the…

  • Another reason not to get an Iphone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the great things about devices failing is when you’ve got other devices you depend on to keep everything synced up. In particular today I’m seeing another reason never to get an Iphone. If your computer goes down for any reason syncing between the phone and the computer is screwed…

  • On why I will never spend my own money to buy an Apple laptop again.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a known issue with the Nvidia 8600 video card. That issue is that the card fails faster than average. There are two common problems with this video card. The first is that the screen is just messed up. That’s not the issue I have. The issue I am having with…

  • Quick N97 thoughts.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf I had a perfect laptop it would be shaped just like the N97 but larger. I’m saying this because of how much I love having a keyboard and a touchscreen in such a small package. Now imagine if laptops did away with all that wasted space at the bottom, where…

  • I have become death, destroyer of macbook pros

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the second time in a little over a year the video card on my macbook pro has failed and I am left with the black screen of death. As a result of this I will have to send the machine off for repair for a second time. Luckily the machine…

  • The Global Humanitarian Forum and live streaming

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorking at the Global Humanitarian Forum today, providing the live streams, was fun as some interesting conversations took place. Among the people present we had Micheline Calmy Rey, Kofi Annan, the writer of the wikonomics book (which I have as an audio book and haven’t finished yet), Nik Gowing, and a…

  • The twitter is great for revolutions bandwagon

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe free flow of information has been greatly facilitated by the development of modern tools such as the smartphone, more common laptops and data plans. As a result of all these tools the control of public opinion has become more of a challenge. It’s easy to block sites, but the problem is…

  • Influenza and the World Community Grid

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Worldcommunity grid is a datagrid style project where almost half a million people are offering computer cycles to help advance scientific research in a number of fields such as health, nutrition and more. One of the most recent projects to be added to the collection is the one for Influenza. If…

  • The Running of the Bulls

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhilst in Switzerland people stand in the streets as they watch the cows go up the mountains and come back down the Spanish enjoy a more extreme version with the same species. I was in the same street as the bulls were running up and down whilst in Spain and this was…