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I always claim to be more interested in “reading” than one would expect based on the amount of time I put aside for it. One reason may be that reading has become much broader than just books. So much of my time is spent reading stuff on the internet. Very interesting stuff certainly, but mostly [...]

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Back in February, we sought an answer to the question Any interest in a “Book Club” of sorts? The answer at the time was “yes!” By decree, we decided on Bones, Rocks and Stars by Chris Turney. I propose we start with this book on 13 July. Hopefully I’m not busy referring to myself in [...]

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Looking for a podcatcher (with which to subscribe to podcasts), I came across PodcastReady. It is also a social networking site, with features like sharing episodes with friends. Do any of you know of similar services that I should consider, such that I might find the “best” one, so that I can more easily convince [...]

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This is a post about ill-fated firmware upgrades, likely not interesting to the regular reader of this blog.

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Here follows a relatively worthless blog post… just some arbitrary technical ponderings. I really should split this into a different blog. Blogs need to maintain focus. Probably better to take a short break than to mix in some irrelevant stuff? I’m currently growing a little tired and weary of this blog’s current discourse on religion. [...]

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I am now the proud owner of two Carl Sagan books, The Demon Haunted World (Amazon, Kalahari) and Billions and Billions (Amazon, Kalahari), as well as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, a set of seven DVDs (Amazon). As my time is limited, I will probably not be reading or watching any of it, until October. Still, it [...]

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There’s a stunning VoIP and IM service named fring, for your 3G cellphone running Symbian or Windows Mobile (hopefully more will be supported later, and 3G isn’t strictly necessary). Use it to phone your fring-using friends for “free” (paying only internet bandwidth, which is cheap, especially compared to phone calls). fring can also dial through [...]

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Traditional blogging wisdom would say I should have more than one blog, to keep the subject matter more “focused”. Well, oops. What can I say. I’ll sort that out when my thesis is done. (Like the rest of my life. ) In the mean time, I’ll always feel some urge to not post more technical [...]

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Calling these niggles might be somewhat euphemistic? My first was the nuisance of actually finding these answers or workarounds. I suppose it’s easy enough for me, but despite being a techie, it was still somewhat time consuming. Now imagine the “lay person”… they just end up calling the nearest Ubuntu using techie, e.g. their brother? [...]

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