Archive for September 2007

PC Noise Ratings

29/09/2007

PC manufacturers give a lot of info about their PCs; weight, height, how many frames the graphics cards can do, how many watts the PSU kicks out, how many fans there are, how big they are and how fast the turn. Do you know the one thing they all leave out is? The [...]

Presumably

27/09/2007

I seem to be using the word presumably a lot lately, both in speech, but more so in written comments and emails. Presumably I picked it up somewhere (damn, there I go again), maybe it’s to avoid the ‘assume makes and ass of you and me’ joke. Weird how things like that happen [...]

Dated URLs for Posts

25/09/2007

If you look at the URLs to my posts you’ll notice that they have the year, month and day, along with the title in them. Personal choice when I started the site, but a lot of people work this way. I’ve noticed when I’m trawling through Google looking for advice, reviews or something [...]

Rest Easy OCD

23/09/2007

I’ve mentioned before my slight OCD tendencies. Turns out a number of my workmates are likewise afflicted (a lot more people than you realise, it might be just because we’re getting older and like things a certain way, scarily I have noticed I’m getting set in my ways and I haven’t hit 30 yet!). [...]

Why do We Find Things Beautiful?

21/09/2007

I understand why we find other people beautiful (or not), it’s a rudimentary method of picking a suitable mate, or at least cutting the numbers down significantly. This obviously has survival implications reproduction implications. I also understand why we find babies (and other animals with similar traits) cute, it increases the likelihood we [...]

Finding Similar Items

19/09/2007

A lot of places, mainly online stores, now have the ‘if you like this you may like…’ or ‘customers who bought this also bought…’ features to help (and encourage) you to find similar items you might like. Unfortunately they’re often not very good, people buy a lot of wild things on one order so [...]

Drowning in Email Addresses

17/09/2007

I have a lot of different email addresses. In Thunderbird I have 23 separate accounts listed. Most aren’t used, many now forward into other accounts and I’m slowly bringing them together, although I still have the issue of a work account too. This means people often get confused when mailing me.
Many of [...]

Stationless TV

15/09/2007

It has started. I think more TV shows will end up going out to audiences in ways like, maybe establish and audience on a regular channel, then split to online media. Some will eventually start away from TV stations, maybe a few websites will become their own TV channels or listings sites, so [...]

Back on Mac

11/09/2007

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m back on a Mac. I’d been thinking about a new PC for a while, thinking I would get a cracking laptop, but as I prefer using my computer at my desk with a full-size keyboard and mouse, not to mention two monitors, and I was thinking [...]

Missing Flickr Features

9/09/2007

I wouldn’t say I’m an amateur photographer, I have a couple of cameras, one of which is comfortably above your typical point-and-shoot and I think about my pictures a bit more than most, so I seem to get some praise for them, but I don’t avidly go out looking for shots. Anyway, recently it [...]