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Greasy youth: “Dual-core? What’s that?”
Assistant: “Dual-core lets you do more than one thing at once – downloading your emails while you upload your photos”

Well thank goodness for that! PC World has finally discovered co-operative multitasking.

(… which, yes, was already old by the 70’s. And the Amiga had pre-emptive multitasking from day 1 :))

By Stuart • Technology 0

Aug 15 2006

What’s the internet for, again?

Ah, the genius of combining two of the best uses of the ‘net in one place [video.google.com] 😉

If you’ve not already been to see it, Avenue Q is truly excellent 🙂

(And bridging a neat gap between this post and the previous, apparently “Nobody knows how to spell “bestiality”“! [slate.com])

By Stuart • Humour, Internet, Video 0

Aug 8 2006

spásh∂l lít'∂r-∂-sé

There’s a great website at Spatial Literacy where such things as the distribution of surnames or internet usage by postcode can be looked-up.

(And take a guess at how many people, out of an office of 11 working in the High-Tech industry, were able to spell this URL right first time…

… and guess how many different variations of the word “spatial” there were :))

By Stuart • Humour, Work 0

Jul 25 2006

Shiny toys

Gadgets seem to be like busses – you get nothing for ages, and then three arrive all at once!

Well, yesterday I not only recieved a warranty replacement D-Link DWl2100AP (my old one failed at the start of the week… but D-Link offer a two-year warranty, and managed to send a replacement within a day! Kudos :)) but also a slimline Rumble Pack for my new Nintendo DS Lite (the black one, of course), and my scan order.

Now this order was for almost £1000 (eek!) yet it still took them a week to even pick the items from their warehouse! Now, if anything had been out of stock then I’d understand – but they showed plenty of stock for everything I ordered both when the order was placed, and for the next week.

I also currently have two Squeezeboxes (Squeezeboxen?) – although one of these is for Chris – and all of the parts (save for a motherboard) I need to construct my 1Tb storage array… more on this later.

My lounge now looks like a cardboard bomb hit it 😉

By Stuart • Technology 1

Jul 5 2006

Usability guidelines

Carole: “Those headphones can be a pain in the arse!”
Richard: “If they’re a pain in the arse, Carole, you’re probably not wearing them in the right place”
…
Carole: “Glasses can be a pain in the arse too…”
Richard: “I refer you to my previous comment about headphones!“

By Stuart • Humour, Music, Work 0