someone has finally has got their hands on the ASUS Eee PC! Notebook review have given their opinion and it still looks pretty promising The price risen slighlty but they have that Asus are hoping to start shipping by the end of August Looking forward to seeing them in the flesh!
Category: Stuff
UK computer history gets new home
Just having a look on the BBC to website to find the National Muesum of Computing is moving to Bletchley Park So if your into computer and codes they is only one place to go this summer (fun for all the family!:-)) I do have a bit of a softspot for any codes/cipher related The
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Christmas comes early in the parkes household
Earlier this week i placed an order for this 20Mb broadband from VirginMedia When i first moved into my current home about three years ago i tried to get cable service (NTL at the time) but they weren’t operating in my area I wanted cable as i had concerns about the distance to the exchange
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Death of the tabloids?
While i’m not expecting newspapers (tabloids or otherwise) to disappear anytime soon a post on the TelleBusillis blog backed up my own personal behaviour I can’t remember the last time i actually went to a shop to buy a newspaper. With the 24/7 access made available by the Internet why bother? It’s out of date
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Just a little tip for your mobile phone
Don’t get Powerade on it 🙁 I play five-a-side football and last night i picked up a drink from the vending machine as i always do My brother asked if he could have a sip so he popped open the sports cap, had a drink and handed it back. I put it straight into my
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Moving office
Filling the van Originally uploaded by Andy Parkes The office move went well over the weekend. It was very hard work but we managed to get it all done so we were up and running on Monday morning Only strange part was the BT engineer who was supposed to be moving our phone lines and
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There Goes The Weekend
We’re moving to bigger premises and we get started tomorrow morning and keep going till we’re done. Guess what i have planned for my weekend 🙁 I’m actually really excited as it’s a milestone for all the hard work we have put in over the last two years and we’re seeing the payback in the
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Stop Being A Smart Ass
As way of apology i thought i’d link to Matt McSpirit’s blog Why the appology? I left a comment on his post “SCVMM – the worlds longest acronym?” saying that SCVMM isn’t actually an acronym RAM, RAID (pun not intentional), ROM and BIOS are all examples of acronyms as they form a new noun Random
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Inkless Paper
I’m quite interested to see how this works out. A new company called Zink, embed dye crystals actually within the paper and then use heat to set the colour. It means that printers are effectively a little bit bigger than the paper and you can put it anywhere What about a mobile phone that prints out
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I Want One Of These!
I vaguely remember reading about this sometime ago but stumbled across it again today The Optimus Maximus Keyboard replaces each button with a tiny led display. This means you can change the image on each button to anything you like. It will even do moving images! Very cool They are currently taking pre-orders for December 2007!!!