New Gear

As I mentioned before, Cerys and I went skiing in Milton Keynes last year while on holiday.  We’ve decided to go back in March for my Birthday.  I’m also hoping to drag some of my friends along.

Let’s talk about compensation

Generally, the subject of compensation seems to be taboo in this country. This seems to me, at least, to benefit employers rather more than employees. I’m going to break that taboo in this post; obviously you should not read it if you think you might be offended.

Everyone's doing it…

…so I may as well join in, and post an opinion of the iPad before I’ve seen or touched it.

Decoding the mir:ror comms protocol

As I wrote in a previous post, I have been trying to experimentally determine the control commands you can use with a violet mir:ror.

Hacking mir:ror on Linux

Some time ago, I bought a mir:ror from violet.net. The provided software for Mac and Linux is unfortunately very much beta-quality (which means decidedly flaky for those of you whose only experience of beta software was google mail). So I set out to see what could be done.

How to work from home when you don’t have your company computer

As you may have seen on various news sites, the UK is covered in snow at the moment and we aren’t coping well as a civilisation. I usually leave my work computer in the office unless I am planning to work from home the following day, and since the weather forecast on Tuesday was [...]

F1 2010 Calendar

I have put the 2010 Formula 1 schedule into a calendar of its own in BusyCal, which is the calendaring application I use on my Mac. BusyCal is then pushing this calendar to my Google calendar account, where I have configured it so that everyone can see it and import it into their calendaring [...]

Political activism

It’s been an eventful start to 2010. On returning to work, I discovered via a link to a news story in the local paper from the site homepage that my MP has asked the government to boycott the company I work for, IBM UK, because of the changes it is making to its final [...]

Gravatars plugin updated

I have updated the GetGravatar Plug-In for OS X Address-Book that I wrote. The new version is here. If you had installed the old one, you need to shut down Address Book before installing the new one.

Tyres

As you will have noticed if you live in Hampshire, it’s been snowing and icy for the last week. Local traffic has not coped well.