Vistas
Images of my installation of Vista, running more or less nicely now. Click for fullsize. My desktop… looks the the same as XP, bar some icons and the taskbar. That’s a photo I took as the background, by the way. So far, nothing too interesting. But then, hit Windows-tab (instead of the old alt-tab) and [...]
On Mice and Operating Systems
So I found a Logitech MX-518 mouse to replace my poor dead MX-500. It’s the same form factor, bar a hideous shiny-grey colour scheme, but it has Teflon feet and is generally quite nice. I grow ever-familiar with Vista, and bar the mildly-annoying Recycle Bin effect (whereby most of my desktop icons are represented as [...]
New Vistas
In an unusual (possibly insane) act of unbridled generosity, my Department gave free copies of Windows Vista Business to everyone who was a member thereof. In my usual (possibly insane) way, I proceeded to install it on my computer forthwith; I believe that I had it installed within four days of the copy going live [...]
Cold and tired
Augh. Been a hectic two weeks of work (got some nice board designs done though, which I’ll stick onto a new section later in the week… the project wiki is far too Web1.0ish to maintain…) and I’ve spent the last couple days in la France. Bah. Back now though, and found that’s it’s freezing cold. [...]
I return from Araby
Just got back from Haj on the 2nd, and I have to say it was a fantastic experience. The Saudi authorities have managed to get things organised to an extremely high degree this year, so, barring traffic (of both the human and vehicular kind), it ran very smoothly and reasonably efficiently. I have some photographs [...]
