William Goodall's Blog Occasional mutterings

March 29, 2013

Game of Thrones Season 3 Speculation (Spoilers)

Filed under: Books,Game Of Thrones,Television — William_T_Goodall @ 16:24

Don’t decode this unless you have read the third book or you are happy to be spoiled! It contains speculation on some essential changes that we will see in the third season of the TV show.


In the first season we see Barristan Selmy leave King’s Landing. He isn’t in the second season at all. In season three we can expect him to turn up in Essos and contact Daenerys Targaryen. In the books he uses a false name and we don’t know who he really is until a much later reveal. In the TV show of course we will recognise him immediately. Will the TV show follow the books and have him reveal his identity much later or, since it’s already spoiled, do it sooner?

February 13, 2013

Mystery Meat

Filed under: Blogging,Science,Superstition,Trivia — William_T_Goodall @ 13:57

So with the organised crime connection to the horse meat scandal why haven’t they told us the results of the tests for human DNA in those burgers and lasagne?

December 11, 2012

Late 2012 iMac

Filed under: Apple,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 21:43

Got my new iMac yesterday evening and set about transferring my data from Time Machine and such.

IMG_5890

Applecare and Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter arrived separately.

IMG_5891

Shipping box.

IMG_5893

Foam pads top and bottom.

IMG_5895

Simply unfolds and lifts out.

IMG_5897

And then some waiting.

IMG_5899

November 30, 2012

New iMac

Filed under: Apple,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 14:32

Ordered new build-to-order iMac this morning. Delivery supposed to be 18th-21st December.



21.5 inch screen

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB

3.1GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz

16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x8GB
1TB Fusion Drive (combines 128GB of super fast flash storage with a traditional hard drive. )
Magic Trackpad, Keyboard, Thunderbolt <-> Firewire adaptor, Applecare.

So that should be handy.

September 30, 2012

Freelancing

Filed under: Apple,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 16:42

I made $481.27 freelancing online this month. So that was interesting. I made more money from that than from my shareware release. I think most people who self-publish software (shareware, trial ware, App Store, MAS) are in the long tail. I have some ideas for software that can be written fairly quickly that might also actually sell. To get it on the MAS still requires me to pay another freelancer $300 or so to do a retina resolution icon set. So icon designers have a guaranteed income from app programmers.

August 1, 2012

Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims

Filed under: Apple,iOS,Microsoft — William_T_Goodall @ 15:43

Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims.

It’s been a long time coming but it was inevitable.

It certainly makes sense to include tablets (iPads) in the totals for personal computers since that is exactly the role people are using them in. What makes less sense is not including those other devices running the same operating systems (iOS and Android) with smaller screens – smartphones and iPod touches.

July 26, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises

Filed under: Movies — William_T_Goodall @ 21:54

I thought it was the best of the trilogy, albeit a bit too long for comfort in the cinema. They really need to bring back intermissions on these long films. It had a reasonably interesting female role for Anne Hathaway, a fair number of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming, and a bit of have your cake and eat it that it mostly got away with.

July 12, 2012

Jesus and Mo

Filed under: Superstition — William_T_Goodall @ 14:21

Jesus and Mo.

June 8, 2012

New Drive

Filed under: Apple,IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 22:54

A Seagate 1TB external drive I was using for Time Machine clattered and clanked and died just outside its two-year warranty the other week. Rather than directly replace it I thought I’d get a bigger drive, move everything from my reliable Buffalo 1TB external drive to the new drive and repurpose the Buffalo drive as a Time Machine Drive.

I believe these are discontinued and the remaining stock is on sale while available.

IMG_5811.JPG

Special Mac edition in aluminium case pre-formatted in hfs+ ready to use.

IMG_5812.JPG IMG_5814.JPG IMG_5815.JPG IMG_5817.JPG IMG_5818.JPG IMG_5819.JPG

Power supply and cables.

IMG_5821.JPG

IMG_5822.JPG

It looks nice, runs cool and is very quiet.

IMG_5823.JPG

And its warranty runs until 6/6/2015.

New HomePlug

Filed under: IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 17:39

IMG_5805.JPG IMG_5807.JPG IMG_5808.JPG IMG_5809.JPG IMG_5810.JPG

« Newer PostsOlder Posts »

Powered by WordPress