Apple’s market cap hits psychological milestone [From Apple’s Market Cap Surpasses $300B]
The naysayers will always find some way to spin that 🙂
January 4, 2011
Apple’s Market Cap Surpasses $300B
January 1, 2011
iPad will grow 250% in 2011
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.
December 21, 2010
Monsters
Another great little British SF movie after last year’s Moon. Is there a trend of one word titles beginning with ‘M’?
December 20, 2010
SATA/IDE to USB
Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.
December 16, 2010
Somewhere
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.
December 6, 2010
GoFlex
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.
December 1, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
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.
November 23, 2010
Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas
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.
November 17, 2010
Purple Chips
Bought some Purple Majesty potatoes and peeled them.
Cut them into chips.
Cooked them in the Actifry.
And ate them with fish fingers, peas, and fried eggs. Put on some malt vinegar and HP sauce too.
I had mandarins in orange jelly for pudding.
November 9, 2010
Motörhead
Saw Motörhead at the AECC last night. They played from about 9:30 PM until 11 PM. I didn’t recognise any of the material in the main part of the show apart from Eat The Rich, but they played Ace of Spades and Overkill for the encore. H&S must have taken a toll in the thirty-odd years since I last saw them as I was able to hear normally after the show. I went home and watched Dexter and didn’t even have to turn the volume up.