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No, this isn’t a rant about Macdonalds – this is my recipe for beef burgers, which I’m only putting here as it’s been in my head for a week or two, and I don’t want to forget it. I’ve made … Continue reading →

I finally upgraded to Panther (Apple MacOS 10.3) on my 500 mHz iBook, and aside from the disappointment of not getting the funky Quantel-esque graphic show in Fast User Switching, all seemed well. That was until I turned WEP encryption … Continue reading →

Bogdan burst into our office yesterday and asked if we’d got Skype yet. It’s VoIP telephony, but Jon and I were dismissive, mainly because we thought it was a Windows-only thing. (Bogdan was a Mac user years ago, but strayed … Continue reading →

I found myself thinking about James Morgan, former economics correspondent for the BBC World Service. A highly amusing and idiosyncratic individual, he gave me and my wife a large meat cleaver as a wedding present. Knives are supposed to be … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about Cringley booting into Linux off his USB keyring (okay, it’s a watch) and a quick Google brought DSL (Damn Small Linux) to my attention. I haven’t got my (badly designed) USB keyring bootable yet, but I … Continue reading →