For my email and calendaring, I use Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin (which implements the Sunbird calendar inside Thunderbird – nifty!). As you can see here, Lightning is helping me plan my morning at work efficiently, by automatically checking over 4 billion of my calendars. Perhaps by that time it has fetched all ofContinue reading “Productivity tools”
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I didn’t buy that!
And hot off the press, another fail entry. I placed an order with Amazon, and received this confirmation email. I sure don’t remember ordering an ARRAY(0x6b390274), but hey, if it’s free…
Fail: Hannspree TV manual
For ages I’ve been meaning to collect together all the fails I come across and post them on my blog. So let’s get started. This snippet is taken from the user manual of a Hannspree Xv-S LCD TV. Operating conditions Temperature Temperature 32°F to + 104°F ( 0°C to + 40°C) Humanity 20% to 65%Continue reading “Fail: Hannspree TV manual”
Box camera
This morning was a very foggy one across Bristol, so I decided to take my camera to work and find something for this week’s Photo Challenge – framing your photos with a box. So you’ll understand why these photos are all taken through a cardboard box! Fog is my favourite weather – mainly because ofContinue reading “Box camera”
Review – Antec Remote Fusion media case
Background I decided to build a new media centre PC to replace my MSI Media Live barebones kit, which is getting a bit long in the tooth now. (The onboard graphics chip is not able to drive a display at 1080p). Having been bitten by the limitations of the MSI Media Live, such as theContinue reading “Review – Antec Remote Fusion media case”
What about the other three?
I spotted this article on the web earlier today, which discusses a possible cure for peanut allergies. But one particular section jumped out at me: The largest ever trial to find a treatment for potentially fatal peanut allergies is to give sufferers tiny amounts daily to build up tolerance. Twenty out of 23 sufferers inContinue reading “What about the other three?”
The benefits of film photography
In today’s day and age of convenience, you might ask why bother using film to take photographs? After all, a digital camera is cheap and easy. You can take hundreds of photos of anything you like. You can take photos like mad without thinking, and hope one turns out alright. You can delete the poorContinue reading “The benefits of film photography”
A warm, glowing fire
This week’s Photo Challenge was Fire. This is my effort. For those who are wondering, no, this wasn’t a real fire. It’s nothing more luxurious than a Sainsbury’s carrier bag held over the flash with a hair band.
Getting information about your video files
The other day, I wanted to find out which of the videos in my movie collection were encoded with multitrack (e.g. 5.1) sound. I found a tool for Linux called themonospot. Happily, it’s packaged with Fedora and can be installed simply by doing yum install themonospot-console Once installed it’ll quickly give you information about yourContinue reading “Getting information about your video files”
Never asleep
This glowing standby light reminds me that the appliances in my flat are never asleep – even when I am.
Jonathan Gazeley 