Merry Christmas to readers and search-engine spiders. Oh and to all the spammers selling watches and performance-enhancing substances, who so like to add comments to my posts.
Season’s Greetings
Dec 22nd, 2009 by simon
Top Five – Flying Annoyances
Dec 17th, 2009 by simon
1. People who wait until they get right next to x-ray scanners, THEN take off their coats and shoes and remove other items. Do it before you get there.
2. People who stand in the middle of the plane aisle taking their coats off and removing items from their luggage. Do it before you get to your seat, or in your seat so everybody else can get to their seats.
3. People who put their luggage sideways into overheads. Put it in lengthways.
4. People who stand in queues even before flights are called.
5. People who haven’t showered or brushed their teeth before flying. A case for bringing back birching.
Top Five – Best Views
Dec 13th, 2009 by simon
Been quite a lot on travels.
1. Machu Picchu, Peru.
2. From the top of Mauna Kea, Big Island, Hawaii.
3. Anywhere in Mt Cook area, New Zealand.
4. Kinloch Leven, Scotland.
5. Glyderau, Wales.
Top Five – Best Days
Dec 12th, 2009 by simon
Hmm, tough one:
1. Best friend’s stag party (and wedding, but that’s another day).
2. An impromptu piss-up, after innocently going for a KFC in Plymouth, with Lutz and Martin.
3. Going to Alton Towers for the first time.
4. Watching England beat Oz in Rugby World Cup final with a friend and his partner’s family at their house.
5. Walking with Alex in Scotland in hip-high snow.
Top Five – Worst Films
Dec 11th, 2009 by simon
There’ve been quite a lot, here’s a list off the top-of-my-head:
1. Boxing Helena
2. Waterworld
3. Son of the Mask
4. The Stand (Stephen King)
5. Matrix Revolutions
High Fidelity
Dec 7th, 2009 by simon
Watching High Fidelity again last night (if you haven’t seen it – then make sure you remedy that situation soon) made me think that I should compile some top 5 lists.
What top 5 lists would you like to see?
New header image courtesy of neighbours’ ducks, who like to use the puddles outside our house. They were also all asleep, with their heads tucked into their wings, this afternoon.
Google Chrome OS
Nov 26th, 2009 by simon
Thought I’d give their new virtual OS a whirl.
Windows 7:
- download Google Chrome OS
- download and install VMWare Player
On my Mac I use Sun Virtualbox, instead of VMWare.
Create the following in a file (e.g: chromeos.vmx) in the same location as the .vmdk file:
.encoding = "UTF-8"
displayName = "Chrome OS"
guestOS = "other"
memsize = "512"
ethernet0.present= "true"
ethernet0.startConnected = "true"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c5:da:60"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
usb.present = "true"
ide0:0.present = "true"
ide0:0.fileName="chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "false"
ide0:0.startConnected = "false"
virtualHW.version = "3"
config.version = "8"
extendedConfigFile = "chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmxf"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
sound.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d d9 3f 9a 20 7c 60-a5 a2 cb 9e e8 c5 da 60"
uuid.bios = "56 4d d9 3f 9a 20 7c 60-a5 a2 cb 9e e8 c5 da 60"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"
Open the .vmx file in VMWare Player.
Updated T’other Site
Nov 25th, 2009 by simon
I’ve updated my other site (see link on right =>) to use different shop-software. Sadly the WP-E-Commerce plugin was too riddled with bugs and the support is virtually non-existent from the company; the vast amount of support was from frustrated users.
I’m in the process of tidying up the graphics and CSS, but feel free to leave your feedback here.
Been a While
Nov 9th, 2009 by simon
It’s been a while since the last post. Some strange things have been going on with my site – somebody seems intent on trying to hack it – so I’ve been keeping a close eye on the logs.
I’m not so keen on updating the blog with personal news anymore, too many suspicious things going on since the Guardian Jobs website hack, where loads of CVs (and the information contained in them) were accessed.