Ooh! Look at the lovely composite photo of Nina Wakeford’s keynote at AoIR Anders took with his phone!

There are spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in the latest Norwegian and Swedish versions of Windows XP, as, it must be said, there are in most translated software. Interestingly, the Swedish translator has actually blogged a post wondering how this might have […]

See, to give your presentation you’d just unhook your locket and slip it into a USB port – your slides would be right there. To show a friend photos of your daughter or your lover or your holidays, the same. I think […]

Lilia set up a Topic Exchange thingy for AoIR 5.0-related blog posts – all you need to do, if you’re posting something about AoIR, is send a trackback to http://topicexchange.com/t/aoir/ and hey presto, a collaborative on-the-fly AoIR blog is created. Lilia also […]

I found some of your life: someone found a memory card from a camera in a taxi, and is posting a photo a day, narrating as though he’s the photographer. Ethically really iffy (would you like it if it was your photos?) […]

Also, I downgraded from Word 2004 to Word X so that I could use the Cite-While-You-Write feature of Endnote, which is lovely because you can easily add references and reformat the bibliography at your leisure. Endnote has yet to release an upgrade […]

Oh dear. My daughter’s friend rang and invited her to stay the night. “Can I, can I, mum, please?” Of course I let her, thinking to myself that this was indeed convenient, it gives me five or six extra hours to finish […]

Ooh. This is the sort of thing I enjoy doing in daydreams 🙂

I’m not going to get away from it, realistically, am I? Amazon gives you a discount if you use their A9 search engine – which disconcertingly remembers not just my name, but also a couple of slightly embarrassing searches I did in […]