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We recently had Chorus Digital installed, and I had an extra box installed in my room so that I could watch TV on my own. As I don’t have an actual TV, I hooked it up to my computer. I had to get a new lead to convert the SCART connection on the box into [...]

Anyone that has read this blog will know how I feel about Dell - handy if you want to buy a cheap computer, but crap at providing an actual service. In others words, you get what you pay for. Now comes word that Dell may be about to move on from their direct sales model.

Michael [...]

James Doohan who played Scotty in the original series of Star Trek has been sent into space. To be precise, his ashes were. To be completely pedantic about the matter, his ashes were flown 70 miles above the Earth, and then returned to his family. But still, it’s pretty cool to be able to say [...]

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released 25 years ago today.

We got one in the mid-80’s and it was a great machine. I was overawed at what this simple machine could do, though it did have it’s faults - the rubber keyboard was dreadful, the games took ages to load, made a horrible screeching noise while [...]

One of the selling points of Windows Vista is it’s increased security. User Account Control, (UAC), is designed to ensure that unknown programs aren’t launched without the users express permission. The idea is sound, but the actual implementation may be off.

The Register reports that the name of the program has a major bearing on whether [...]