Feb 16 2008
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Feb 11 2008
Hopes and fears for a new MacBook Pro
With the rumoured (hopefully) imminent launch of new MacBook Pro models, I thought I’m commit to blog a collection of thoughts I have about how Apple could improve it, how much I’d like to see them make the suggested change, and how likely I think it is that they’ll do so…
Feb 1 2008
Nintendo Europe: Not evil, just irredeemably stupid?
There are several things which annoy me about Nintendo right now… amongst them the shameless price-gouging for Virtual Console games, the DRM which prevents you from backing up your saved games from your console to your SD card (what was the thinking behind this one??), the hopelessly slow SD write-speed when you do actually find something that you can copy, the inability to run copied data from the SD card, the lack of any form of online mass-storage support – I could go on.
However, right now, it is Nintendo Europe who are in my cross-hairs – and I’m left wondering exactly what they think they’re playing at.
Jan 24 2008
Preventing Mac OS from eating flash-based drives…
As described in some detail at Ars Technica, Mac OS 10.5 will log all filesystem activity on a volume to a .fseventsd directory in the root of the volume. For removable media this is at best not helpful, and at worst actively damaging.
Jan 12 2008
Best video review ever…
This is without a doubt the best video review of a game that I’ve ever seen 😉
Jan 10 2008
Inappropriate images…
I’ve just seen this image on the the UK Government’s Consumer Direct Trading Standards website, here.
Mar 15 2008
Pot, Kettle; Kettle – Pot.
China has hit back at US criticisms of their Human Rights record.
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