Archive for September, 2005

System 7

Friday, September 30th, 2005 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

While browsing a couple of Mac sites recently I came across this screen shot from the glory days of monochromatic System 7. Best of all is, this grab shows ... Read more..

Snatch

Friday, September 30th, 2005 Posted in Humour | 2 Comments »

Matthew: Have you seen snatch? David: Once or twice in the past. Matthew was not referring to an entry in the Profanisaurus Rex but rather a film by Guy Ritchie. Read more..

Profanisaurus Rex

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 Posted in Thoughts | No Comments »

Now by special request, a blog for Mr. Wallace. I'd just finished my handful of sprats, when who should call but the gash baron in the bespoke suit. He was mingerling ... Read more..

Hacked Off

Sunday, September 18th, 2005 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

I was perusing the system logs on my Slackware server, the very one which contains this blog and my other web pages, when I spotted some alarming entries. Some scrotes had ... Read more..

GraphicConverter on Linux

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

There are a plethora of image viewers available for Linux users, but none of them can match the peerless grace and power of Lemke's GraphicConverter, stalwart of shareware programs on ... Read more..

Rocky & Tux

Monday, September 12th, 2005 Posted in Birds | No Comments »

Continuing the stuffed toy theme of recent blogs (see Hula Monkey) this blog is specially for Emma. Once upon a time Emma came to “in Scotland” to see her Grandparents. During ... Read more..

Too beaucoup

Saturday, September 10th, 2005 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

I love my newest purchase. A lovely 17" LCD monitor from those very nice people at HP. This came at a very reasonable price from the lovely people at Misco but ... Read more..

PC World

Friday, September 9th, 2005 Posted in Rants, Tech Stuff | No Comments »

Having bought Hula Monkey, I thought I would nip into the Corstorphine branch of PC World. Walking into the store, in pride of place just by the door was their "special ... Read more..

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