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More On The Cloud, Linux and admission of Failures

Let’s go in reverse order from the title. First, the admission.
There is a saying that goes something along the lines of
The best laid plans of mice and men…
In an attempt to revitalise my interest in the blog I started three new series on the blog:

Photo of the day. With over 20,000 photos on [...]

Liferea, Cairo-Dock and other Ubuntu Goodness

I am still playing with Ubuntu and loving it more every time I switch the machine on.
I have installed a couple of extra applications, one called Liferea (LInux FEed REAder) for reading the RSS feeds. I took the opml (XML) file from Google Reader and imported into the application with no trouble whatsoever. [...]

Ubuntu 8.04

A couple of years ago I had a spare PC sat doing nothing.  At that time I decided to install Ubuntu Warty Warthog on the machine and have a play with it.
Unfortunately, I ran out of patience with the OS. Having always been Windows based, the switch to Linux was just too much. [...]

Vista Privacy

Following discussions over at the Mini Club Forum I did some investigating into Microsoft’s privacy policies on Vista.
The conversation started with a member asking what people think of Vista. I can’t give an opinion as I am too poor to afford either the hardware to run it, or the software itself.
Daze made the initial [...]

What a Weekend!

We did so much this last weekend that I really don’t know where to start, so, let’s start with Thursday and the Mini…
Continuing problems with the Cooper mean that I haven’t driven it for over a month (last was 14 February when I took 45 minutes and 4 breakdowns to get home from work – [...]

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