Monthly Archives: April 2005

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first thing to be placed in the first bin liner of a new roll is the paper the new roll of bin liners were wrapped in. And in other news, I went … Continue reading →

I just got one of these. It’s a �20 Firewire and USB enclosure for a 5.25″ hard disk, CD writer or DVD writer. Amazingly it comes with two different kinds of Firewire leads and a USB lead, plus a screwdriver. … Continue reading →

We’ve been trying to think of names – and I’ve been also thinking of the great song ‘The Name Game’ by Shirley Ellis (1965, apparently). When I was about 10 or 11 I was inordinately fond of that song, and … Continue reading →

Well installing OS 10.3 on my half-dead RevA iMac was someting of a breeze. First, remember, I’d installed a bigger hard drive – I really don’t think that the 4 gig drive that shipped with the original iMac is going … Continue reading →

Jon Ward very kindly gave me a 20 gig hard drive out of an old family iMac to replace the 4 gig one on my FrankenMac (it’s a RevA 233 MHz Bondi Blue iMac with a fried flyback transformer and … Continue reading →