Monthly Archive: July 2010

Jul
27
2010

The Seven Link Challenge

Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …

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Jul
27
2010

What is this character for?

¬ Why? What is it doing on my keyboard? I mean, it looks packed with awesome but I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it – what is its purpose? Update from Jeffrey Cook: Back in the dark ages (before the were any PCs, mainframe connected terminals like the IBM 3270 were …

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Jul
10
2010

Laptops

Another laptop display bites me slightly in the behind. Turned on my laptop (just over four years old) this morning to find the display ghosting (photo though due to the ghosting, I can’t tell how well it’s come out). It’s got worse over the course of the day (and it was happening in the BIOS …

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