Windows 7, Jaunty Jackalopes, Apple woes and more

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:33:36 +0000

It's been a couple of weeks since I got the new Toshiba Satellite and I have to say that I'm really impressed with Windows 7 - no major glitches, bugs or crashes so far and the user interface is certainly a step in the right direction. True, it's...

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Monkeys, Yetis, Leonard Da Vinci and more...

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:29:18 +0000

Ok, it's been a while since I reviewed anything game related so I thought I'd bundle up the recent influx into a single post and catch up with things. First up, I've got back into using the PSP on the train, having bought an 8GB memory card for i...

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Out of disaster comes...piracy?

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:19:50 +0000

Ok, so I broke the screen on the Vaio. something got between the screen and keybaord when I closed it for the night and I opened it the next morning to find the glass cracked and a couple of bleed points in the LCD, although it still works if I d...

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Guilty Pleasures - awful movies you just have to love

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:23 +0100

Everyone has a few movies that they love but are scared to admit to. Whether it’s a love of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals beloved by an iron-pumping bodybuilder or a nun with a secret love of the Rambo trilogy, we are all equal in the fact we ...

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Welcoming new additions to the family...

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:59:40 +0100

I'm back, at last! Well, it's been a hectic couple of months and, without going in to all the details of when and how, I am now the proud father of a little girl who has, it has to be said, settled in amazingly well, but has taken my attention awa...

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Is twitter useful or just a licence to ignore people?

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:50:11 +0000

Now, as a web professional, I should be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon faster than a tabloid doing a U-turn over Jade Goody. Every pitch I attend has at least one person practically frothing at the mouth at the thought of getting a Twitter feed...

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Nevermind Arnie, this Predator is the real winner

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:42:24 +0000

As you are probably aware, I have been looking in to getting a top-spec PC to run my various OSes on under Vrtualisation and use of partitioned hard drives. Also, as I am starting to do some more creative and development work it will be nice to g...

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say hello, wave goodbye...

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:41:15 +0000

Well, it's the end of an era at my place. An Englishman's home may well be his castle, but when an Englishman's wife is having a baby, very soon his habit of hoarding old computers comes into view and he needs to clear out the spare room and the ...

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What would be your lottery win shopping list?

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:21:37 +0000

As the Euromillions peaked at over £85Million this week, I thought I'd take a punt and bought a ticket (of course playing when there's a mere £15Million in the jackpot would just be a waste of money...). Of course, I didn't in, but I did spend a...

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Can older really be the wiser choice?

nobody@vox.com(The Golden Monkey) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:57:55 +0000

With the advent of Linux and OpenOffice, there has been a lot of chatter about whether there is now a viable alternative to Windows in the workplace. It seems that every week there is a new distribution of Linux released (I really should get ar...

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