DeeKnow’s Grotto

Last weekend Kym decided enough was enough and she would have to procure her own Laptop seeing as she wasn’t having much luck getting keyboard time on our communal desktop. So off to town we went with credit-card in hand, in to Smiths Dicks to browse the dozens of laptops on offer, eventually striking [...]

One of my colleagues forwarded me a great blog post by Tony Hirst from last year which wrapped up important features and opportunities for use of RSS as a sort of call to arms, or manifesto as Tony refers to it. The post got me thinking about one particular aspect of RSS talk that [...]

For a good number of years now I’ve held off from buying myself a mobile phone. This has infuriated my friends and family, been the cause of many an argument with my wife, and apparently been generally disruptive to other peoples lives, without actually having a significant impact on my own.
Its not that I’m [...]

Last week I received the final pieces of hardware I’d ordered to rebuild my home machine and give its performance a kick in the arse to drag it screaming into the 21st century. Being the luddite that I am I’ve always been on the trailing edge as far as home computing power is concerned, priding [...]