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There are few lengths I won’t go to in order to mess things up for myself. Nothing really spectacular, of course. Not heroin. Not gambling. Just little things that make my life less interesting (and possibly less lucrative) than it … Continue reading →

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 →