I got a letter this morning about my broadband package. One of the benefits that comes with it is free anti-virus software from McAfee. I've been using it for quite a few years now and it's been fine. The letter said that at the end of March, it was going to change from McAfee to Norton ( Read more... )

I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora on Wednesday and it left me with a major book hangover. The world building in the book was absolutely incredible. It's set in the city-state of Camorr which is based very loosely on Venice in the 16-17th centuries - I think mostly because it's a city built on a series of islands, but there's several references ( Read more... )

I was busy at work when I got a calendar notification on my phone. I was baffled by that as I didn't have anything scheduled for today and when I checked, the notification didn't make a great deal of sense. I didn't have time to deal with it then so I just dismissed it and carried on working. I checked the Google calendar app when I got home and ( Read more... )

It's nice to do things for charitable causes, it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling and a shiny halo. On the downside it generally involves you actually giving something, either your money or time or something of that nature. So it would be awesome if there was a way that you could support good causes without doing anything. Well now, there is ( Read more... )

I think I've finally decided on a name for my new laptop. I debated over things like Jarvis, Tardis and Gallifrey but I am going to call it Cerebro. In the Marvel Universe, it's the device that Professor X uses to find and track other mutants. It's currently the familiar helmet machine used by telepaths but it was originally a computer in a desk ( Read more... )

Since the old laptop died on me, I've been researching my options for a replacement. I wanted something that would run well with Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as the few PC games that I have (Sims, Warcraft III, Age of Kings and Dungeon Siege). The old laptop used to belong to my step-father so I'd acquired it as I needed something I could ( Read more... )

My laptop seems to be getting closer to being put out to grass. It's been problematic for a while: it's slow, gives error messages, freezes regularly and constantly has issues with Firefox not responding. It was old when I started using it but it was free and I needed something I could run Adobe on. It's now started overheating which is quite ( Read more... )

Bank Holiday weekend woohoo! What are people's plans?

I was hoping to have a nice relaxing time with some light reading and heavy gaming - I've just started playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution which I'm enjoying so far. It's good than that my plans did not include much internet access because it decided to die on me this morning. Why does that always ( Read more... )

My laptop has randomly decided it doesn't like the internet. I have no idea why. Perhaps it's developed techno-agoraphobia. It keeps saying that it only has limited connectivity and when I try to connect, I get a message that it's taking a long time - the length of time it takes for the internet to connect is only marginally shorter than the ( Read more... )

Stupid bloody laptop ( Read more... )