Monthly Archives: March 2010

A Blue Ocean on the Land

Google have finally (street)mapped most of the UK. Look at all that blue!

From Land’s End..

..to John o’Groats..

and pretty much everywhere in between.

Including my own back yard! Not found myself on it yet, but have had a great time ‘driving’ around the country. Found anything fun? Leave a comment :)

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Roasted Laptop

Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. At the time it was the fastest thing I could buy. It was also the heaviest! With a 17″ 1920×1200 screen and all the toys, it’s a bit of a dead weight. It was always intended to be a desktop replacement, so …

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Hacker Medley Podcast

I asked last week if anyone knew of any cool podcasts I should subscribe to. I had a few suggested, one of which I’m now hooked on. Hacker Medley is a fairly new podcast started by Alex Graveley and Nat Friedman.

So far they’ve cranked out 3 episodes and in my opinion they’re all …

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Queuing for Tickets for Beer

I’ve got my ticket for Farnham Beer Exhibition 2010 (along with 5 others) which takes place (as usual) at Farnham Maltings in Farnham, Surrey, UK. The tickets cost £7 each and there’s a tradition of queuing up to get them when they go on sale at 7AM at the Maltings itself. Yes, that’s 7AM …

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Which Podcasts?

People often (yes, really) ask me which audio podcasts I listen to and which video ones I watch. I have recently rationalised my list as I migrated from iTunes on the Mac to gPodder on Ubuntu.

I thought now would be a good time to publish the list of what I subscribe to. I’ve …

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