24 Mar 2007
Posted by Quantum at 1:55 pm
There is a section of road that is possibly the worst new creation in the UK. Exiting the M40 to get to the M1 via the A43 is awful, especially at rush hour. There are far too many roundabouts restricting the flow of traffic along this route. The result is several miles of slowly moving [...]
28 Aug 2006
Posted by Quantum at 11:36 am
This week I discovered a useful little command line application to process my todo list. Todo.txt processes a plain text file and allows you to maintain the list with a few command line calls. Because the file is in plain text I can just print it out if I am going to be away from [...]
08 Jul 2006
Posted by Quantum at 12:15 pm
On Friday afternoon I needed to visit a surgery, walk in, pick up two items and walk out. Parking was not available so i stopped in a residents parking bay. I wasn’t going to be there long and it was a quiet street. After being in there 5 minutes and returning to my car I [...]
04 Feb 2006
Posted by Quantum at 12:57 am
A few years ago now Google was, for me, just a search engine. It performed well and as time went by nice new features began to appear. Little things, like being able to type in a calculation or conversion and recieve an answer. Useful tools in a plain interface that loaded quickly. Lets look now [...]
31 Jan 2006
Posted by Quantum at 10:32 am
Galactic Civilisations 2 is soon to be released. Why am I telling you this? Well, GalCiv 1 was one of the best strategy games I have played in years. It was a well constructed game, it was distributed by the creators as a download and it was under active development for 12 months after the [...]
25 Jan 2006
Posted by Quantum at 4:18 pm
Well the new powersupply seems to have done the trick as I am writing this on the resurrected machine. I’m still not 100% happy with it though. When powered down the IDE status LED on the front of the case stays dimly lit, as does the LED on the CDRW. My investigations lead me to [...]
11 Jan 2006
Posted by Quantum at 2:48 pm
Once again I open up the paper to find the PC brigade messing about in day to day life. Marriage is the new banned word. Why? There is a chance it might offend same sex couples in registry offices. What a load of rubbish, most of them will be happy they now have a legal [...]
01 Jan 2006
Posted by Quantum at 6:07 pm
As much as i liked the old image, it was too big. During the site upgrade I noticed my bandwidth usage logs. Since the introduction of the Lightning header the bandwidth usage per month had shotup by over 40%. This was getting on towards 50% of the monthly hosting allowance and I decided something needed [...]
13 Sep 2005
Posted by Quantum at 1:16 am
Winsupersite.com is carrying a run down of the expected versions of Microsoft Windows Vista, to be released Q3/4 2006. Firstly I think splitting Windows into 7 versions is a bad idea, for Microsoft that is. It will confuse customers into buying the wrong version for their needs and having to buy another version, though this [...]
25 Aug 2005
Posted by Quantum at 12:27 pm
This week Google has launched its new Instant Messenger (IM) & Voice Chat service. Other companies offer similar services i.e. Microsoft, Yahoo, ICQ. If you already have an IM service why change? I have been considering a switch to Linux for a while yet most of my contacts use MSN Messenger. Microsoft keep the protocol [...]
