Daily Archives: October 2, 2006

Doing things I don’t like to fund things I love

I have been working in the field of computing since the age of 18. Like other dedicated IT professionals over that time I’ve been exposed to many applications, platforms and systems. Some of them I’ve actually found enjoyable to use, not all, but some. Maybe it’s just rose-tinted spectacles, but I’m sure I found …

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Opening conversations with stickers

I was recently given an old HP Omnibook xe4100 laptop. It’s got a 1.1GHz Celeron CPU, 512MiB RAM and a 6GB hard disk. So it’s not blazingly fast, but it’s good enough for the journey to and from work on the train. I have an Ubuntu sticker on the lid of it which anyone …

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