Archive for October, 2007

Not disappointed

Oct. 29, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Games, Mac OS X

This weekend saw two of my most anticipated pieces of software released. First was Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, a game I spent many a late night playing at university, and the other Mac OS X Leopard, the latest incarnation of Apples fantastic operating system.

Initially I had teething problems with both. Change to something you are [...]

Nikon D80

Oct. 22, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Photography

From my last post it should be clear that I recently got myself a Nikon D80. I have been without a camera since after I went travelling and have been waiting for another big occasion to get one. Problem is by the time I am about to go away again I have no spare cash [...]

Good customer service

Oct. 22, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Random

Last week I ordered a refurbished Nikon D80 from this seller on Ebay. Normally I am a bit hesitant of ordering of Ebay, and end up getting the same thing of Amazon because I believe it will be a better service.

I also ordered a memory card a few days before from Ebuyer, a big company [...]

On the agenda of yesterdays ABCE ITG meeting was the discussion of an RSS referral meteric, referring to a link clicked from an RSS feed. The problem was sounded that a number of RSS readers will pre load a page, or render a page to get a screen shot when you view a feed, leading [...]

d3o

Oct. 13, 2007 1 Comment Posted under: Technology

Last night my mate told me about d3o, a plasticine like substance that becomes very hard under compression.

It doesn’t sound that interesting until you see the videos and then start thinking of what they could make out of the stuff! Top of my list is the beanie for snowboarding, but also a laptop bag, and [...]