Category Archives: Geekery

Why e-book readers are a stupid idea

With the largely successful Kindle by Amazon, Sony’s Ebook Digital Reader and the usual over-hype about what may or may not be a tablet type device from Apple, I can’t help feeling that the idea of an e-book reader is absurd.

Over 500 years ago Gutenberg invented the printing press which revolutionised the world, there are [...]

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The Smug of Apple

So my work supplied Mac Book Pro died in it’s sleep the other week so it needed looking at.  The problem with the aesthetics obsessed Apple is you can’t just send it off to be looked at, No.  You have to take it in person to the Genius Bar within the cold, joyless, smug Apple [...]

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Spotify – The future of music delivery?

As of January 2009 95% of music downloads are illegal, even with hard line tactics from the BPI, the dominance of Itunes and Amazon’s non-DRM music centre have not been able to stem the flow of illegal downloads.
While the music industry still doesn’t really get the internet and continues to dish out threats to ISP’s [...]

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New Crown Site

I have been slowly working on a new website for my regular boozer, the Crown Inn. Over the years the site has been a mish mash of all sorts of things but mostly static html pages – this time it is wordpress driven and has some funky features like the calendar and a blog [...]

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Widgets & Plugins

Playing with Wordpress Widgets and since my theme (that dates back to 2003) doesn’t support them I’m playing around with other themes for now. That is all.

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