Hiatus

It’s been a while since I last sat down and wrote something that I didn’t immediately have to hand in to the University. Over the last month, three weeks were spent doing nothing but work and the last week has been completely free to try and recover. One thing this …

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May 1st, 2008
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iMac (Graphics?) Issue

Ever since I did the Leopard Graphics Update, my iMac has had a weird little issue when exiting full-screen programs (such as World of Warcraft, Parallels…). As a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll just post some pics here….

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March 31st, 2008
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Holday Time: Vegas

Photo by roadsidepictures.
About eight or nine years ago, my step dad told me that when I turned twenty-one he’d take me to Las Vegas. Keeping to his word, when my twenty-first birthday came last month, he booked a holiday for …

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March 24th, 2008
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Some Thoughts on PlayDigital

While I may be late to the party on this one, I thought it may be worth a mention. One of my favourite online retailers, Play.com, announced that they were going to offer music downloads. When the news of the …

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February 29th, 2008
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My Setup 2008 (pre-Macworld)

As the Macworld event is later today, I thought I’d write a post entailing my current setup — just in case I decide to make any changes based on the news. Since moving back to my Uni room last week, I’ve decided to concentrate on my iMac being my “main” …

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January 15th, 2008
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Who Said War Isn’t Fun…?

A friend of mine had to create an animation for his third year Computer Science class, Modeling and Animation. The task they were given was to create an animation involving a “toy”; sort of like an advert for it. The animation was created using Blender, an open source “3D …

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January 8th, 2008
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Ten Year Old Wine

I bought this bottle of wine when I was ten years old, in a rather large wine store in France. I can’t remember how much it cost, but that wasn’t considered when I was buying it. At the time I really liked antiques and when I saw this, wandering around …

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January 2nd, 2008
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Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish everyone out there a very “Merry Christmas”, Seasons Greetings or Happy Holidays. Whether you do celebrate this time of year, or not, just have a great December 25th. Even if you don’t believe in anything in particular, this time of year has one great thing …

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December 24th, 2007
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Delicious…

A while ago Jordan Chark held a competition to win a Delicious Generation t-shirt. A competition in which I happened to be one of the winners! Well, it just arrived in the post so I figured I’d take a couple of quick snaps with my iSight….

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December 12th, 2007
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Idea: Better than Ive or Schiller.

I recently read an article at Times Online, which seemed to favour Jonathan Ive as the next CEO of Apple. While it’s without a doubt that he would bring a lot of style to the position, there were a multitude of comments (not just on that article) saying that …

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December 9th, 2007
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