My old chair was manufactured in 1997 (it says so on the inspection label pasted under the seat) and I must have had it since not long after that. The padding on the seat had compressed and the gas lift was sticking. Time for a replacement 
Jan 17
Jan 11
My ISP recently notified me that my ADSL was getting a free upgrade to ADLS2+ sometime between February and April. This was good news apart from the fact that my existing modem/router was so old that it didn’t do ADSL2+ 
It was a DrayTek 2600We that had been running pretty much 24/7 without problems since November 2002 when I first got ADSL. It also only supported WEP on the wireless LAN so that was a bit obsolete.
Today my new modem/router/firewall/wireless access point arrived and was quickly installed ready for my line upgrade.
Big box.
Littler box inside.
Neat and tidy. Template for drilling holes for wall-mounting.
Curvy.
Screws and plugs for wallmounting and a pad of DrayTek post-its included.
Light compact switching power supply.
Set up and running. Now I get wireless on the other side of the house too
Jan 04
Apple’s market cap hits psychological milestone [From Apple's Market Cap Surpasses $300B]
The naysayers will always find some way to spin that
Jan 01
A new report claims tablet sales will more than triple next year, but says Apple will hold on to its dominant position with the iPad, jumping from 14 million units in 2010 to 36 million next year.[From Report: iPad will grow 250% in 2011 at the expense of PCs]
I shall probably have to get one after the version 2 model comes out around March.
Dec 21
Another great little British SF movie after last year’s Moon. Is there a trend of one word titles beginning with ‘M’?
Dec 20
Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.
Dec 16
Went to see Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. A meditative piece of similar themes to Lost in Translation but less comical. Not much happens but I liked it.
Dec 06
My pair of Formac 160GB rotating back-up drives were full so I needed something bigger. I got a pair of GoFlex 1TB drives which came with USB interfaces. I got a single Firewire pluggable interface to share between them. One drive is sitting in the Firewire dock getting backups stored on it while the other is rotated out offsite.
A £5 Firewire 400<->800 cable let me plug it into my iMac.
Dec 01
Probably incomprehensible if you hadn’t read the book. Various scenes from the book unclearly connected in the film. Worst of the three, and not a very good film.
At imdb.
Nov 23
Another ‘re-imagining’ of cult character Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer should brace themselves for a cinematic “re-imagining” of the cult character, which producer Charles Roven describes as a “a completely new reboot”.… [From Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas]
At best this would seem to be unnecessary and I expect it will be a lot worse than that. Joss Whedon is not attached to the project in any way.
