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Time Machine no turkey

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Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2007 at 12:10 pm

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According to my Chicago-based son, we should ship Halloween back to America and adopt Thanksgiving Day instead. It is, according to him, the only holiday where you get to eat a lot, drink a lot, then slump in front of Star Trek Enterprise all afternoon. Best of all, you don’t have to buy any presents.

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A Tale of Two CDs

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Posted in Security on November 23, 2007 at 11:25 am

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There are some questions I haven’t seen asked about the two missing data disks and more pertinently, the data held on them.

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Catz and Dogs

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Posted in Leopard, Apple on November 22, 2007 at 12:04 pm

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According to latest reports, us Southerners prefer moggies to doggies while Northerners are more likely to assume we refer to their affectionate name for benzodiazepine.

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Internet Ageism

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Posted in Internet on November 20, 2007 at 10:21 am

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There are those of us who don’t think of pip as an annoying seed commonly found in tangerines at this time of year. We never confuse Dr Dos with an NHS employee and we can recall an escape sequence had nothing to do with jumping a BMW over a wire fence. For us, central heating was something porridge gave, especially as our bedroom windows froze on the inside. In hot weather, air conditioning meant flapping a piece of paper in front of our face. In other words, we are the old farts who grew up in a time when our Christmas stockings held a banana and a copy of the Eagle or Bunty annual if we were lucky.

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And here’s another thing about Leopard

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Posted in Leopard on November 13, 2007 at 10:27 am

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Our Leopard family has started to have cubs as the updates come in thick and fast. But one change that was unexpected and definitely for the better, is Firewire handling.

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Wonky websites

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Posted in Internet on November 8, 2007 at 7:24 pm

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How come if I go to a website and it doesn’t work in my browser when millions of others do, it’s my fault for the failure?

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TV Capture Part 2 and a quarter

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Posted in Leopard on November 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm

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We have a whole family of Leopards living in our office now. The upgrade has been trouble-free once we had learned which utilities to un-install before upgrading: ClamX, Onyx and Epson scanner driver being the most important for us.

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