Not the beginning of a joke, but a question asked (and answered) by the man in blue in his post Handwritten Typographers.
Nice to see that some of them have handwriting that is nearly as messy as mine! They obviously spend too much time at a computer too…
via Daring Fireball
Posted on Wednesday 9th July 2008 in Computers tagged Computers, lettering, Links, type, typography, writing, with no comments.
My old hard drive had been making alarming clunking noises (more than is usual) and causing the system to hang, therefore I thought it best to replace the drive.
So after making sure the Time Machine backup was up to date, I replaced the HDD, and booted the computer with the OS X DVD. I was [...]
Posted on Saturday 15th March 2008 in Computers tagged apple, backup, Computers, with no comments.
Courtesy of xkcd.com the definitive guide to kilobytes and kilobits…
There’s been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalisation of each.
Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:
xkcd 394 – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Posted on Monday 10th March 2008 in Blog tagged Computers, humour, internet, link, with no comments.
Everyone 1 seems to be amazed by the new voice included as part of mac OS X Leopard, and called Alex. Yes, it is better than previous computerised voices, but it (he?) still has a long way to go.
A lot is being made of the “natural breathing and intonation”, which is good. But I found, [...]
Posted on Sunday 11th November 2007 in Computers tagged Computers, future, language, mac OS X, with no comments.
Simon has just posted an interesting rantpost on why he is not on Facebook, or indeed on any of the multitude of social networking sites that seem to be springing up at the rate of one a week. He cites that fact that networking for the sake of it seems inherently wrong. Why not actually [...]
Posted on Sunday 23rd September 2007 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, facebook, internet, networking, pointless, rant, technology, with no comments.
