Patrick's Soapbox

So Aperture 1.5 has finally landed in Software Update (and on the Aperture website). First things first: it's a healthy update: 125MB. That's bigger than than the original application (which was only ~30MB, not including sample content). However I'm sure...

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It's been out for a while now, but I thought it was about time I threw in some comments about Microsoft Windows Vista. Beta 1, at least. If you've known me for anything longer than half a minute, or at...

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I haven't done a post in a while, and in fact posting has been really quite rare for the last 3 months or so. There is a really good reason for this. I've been working 58 hour weeks, which I'm...

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Like many universities, mine has plenty of locked down Windows 2000/XP machines running IE6. The implmentation they gave us last year didn't even have the facility to save favorites, so I took things into my own hands. Around the same...

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Wow. It's Thursday morning, 3:33 according to my iBook, and my alarm clock. Thus it must be so. The Thirsty Traveller is on tv, in Greece, investigating some drink (Oyzo). I feel like Coke, but unfortunately (even if I had...

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I have a small handfull of GMail invites. Unless you find GMail creepy (in which case leave me alone), leave a comment, send an email (using the usual address... something at my personal domain, or even patrickq@gmail.com will see you...

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iPod your BMW: The latest Apple partnership is the iPod Your BMW announcment. I, for one, have wanted something like this (for the distant day in the future when I have the money to purchase a car). It also takes...

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Cory Doctorow's Microsoft Research DRM talk makes some very good points about the impacts of digital rights management in a way that, it seems to me at least, have not been raised before. The main points he makes are that...

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On Asterisk: I got my IP Phone and FXO card yesterday from donald (who ordered them forever ago from digitnetworks), unfortunately having work last night meant I didn't really have time to do anything with it. Today (although delayed by...

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Just ignore it. Please? Thanks :)...

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