Well my all encompassing MythTV box is finally nearing completion! It still needs a little bit of new hardware (BIG HDD and new vid card) to go in, but its bascially done. It’ll show and record digital TV, has a pretty Web interface for when I forget to tape something before I leave the house, play normal video […]

Well, I knew it was going to happen, but Google finally released their own ‘official’ version of the Desktop Calendar plugin with the features I’d added, thus making my version obsolete and destined to fall slowly in Gadget ranking. They based their new version off my code but have also edited it to their own desires (Eg They […]

I’ve been meaning to write up the paint job I gave my laptop for a while now but just have never got a round to it. The idea was to dress up the old girl and hopefully distract some people from how shamefully old it is (PIII 1ghz). Its a linux only laptop so the obvious choice was […]

I don’t normally post things like this, let alone on my ‘technical’ blog, but its kinda relevant. Its possibly the cutest thing you will ever actually see thats geek related: Yes, that’s right its a baby firefox. Someone grab a little globe and wrap this thing around it please.

Here’s an interesting conversation that Linus decided to dip his toes in. Whilst he raises some good points I think that, like on other occasions, his comments are based heavily around his own preferences and maybe do not reflect a wider audience. Some of Jeff’s responses are very well thought out and explain with a little more clarity […]