Drawing Breath

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a screenshot of the new OS X inspired Google X which has recently appeared on Google labs. The Google X page has the following tag line: Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you. Feel the love, people. Nice to see OS X getting explicit [...]

BBC news online reports that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stowed away more than $13m (£6.8m) in 125 bank accounts around the world. I’m sure I can expect another round of Nigerian 419 scam e-mails offering me a share in this huge fortune once I hand over a modest transfer fee. <irony>I can’t wait to [...]

Filed under “I’ll believe it when I see it”: AppleInsider | Sources: Apple developing two-button mouse If it turns out to be true, it could be further evidence of a worrying if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em trend taking root at Apple Headquarters.

This morning GMTV aired a story condemning the actions of some Traffic Wardens, and highlighted alleged unjust and unfair parking fines. They continue this theme on the GMTV web-site, under the following innocent headline: GMTV – Find out how to appeal against a parking penalty The opening paragraph of the article uses a slightly more [...]

The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted the following article about the demise of the Mozilla Suite today: No more Mozilla 1.8; in fact, no more Mozilla. Just Firefox.: “In case you haven’t already heard, it’s over for Mozilla as far as future development is concerned. Oh sure, the Mozilla Foundation is going to keep maintaining the [...]

MacMerc.com has a useful article on how to eject a CD that refuses to show up on the desktop. I didn’t know about the drutil command line utility. Could come in handy next time one of my Retrospect DVDs refuses to show it’s face. Thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog for the link.

I recently started using the excellent MarsEdit from Ranchero Software to edit this blog. It is a very nice application, and makes writing entries much easier than using the (admittedly very good) browser interface provided by the WordPress installation. The only complaints I had were that the initial connection to my blog installation needed manual [...]

This weekend is the Kyu gradings at Phoenix Aikido Club. There is an extra class on Saturday, to which everyone who is grading or acting as Uke is expected (which you can read as required) to attend. The gradings themselves will take place on Sunday 20th March. Good luck to everyone taking a grading, and [...]

According to this mornings The Wright Stuff on five, a spouse cannot give evidence against their partner in a court of law, unless the partner have committed a crime against the spouse, or against a person under the age of 16. So, if a wife was the only witness to her husband committing a murder, [...]

When you start turning over stones, some scary things start scuttling about. My comments about this article on Media Watch Watch elicited the following incendiary response: Great!” Let’s put a diet of snuff movies & footage from Neverland on the TV schedules. Objection is futile when all you need to do is press the off-switch. [...]