by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | IT
I had an import just sit there doing nothing in Lightroom 3 beta. It turns out I had some movies (.avi) ticked as part of the import and they were choking it. Untick them and the import ran perfectly.
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | IT
I got a red top bar of my Office 2010 application windows (but only on the netbook, funnily enough). The error said Activation failed and had an error code of 0x8007232B. The instructions on changing the product key worked perfectly, although took a few exit and...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Reading, Science
I loved the story behind the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, but the Cox-Zucker has to be up there as well.
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Business, Personal
Interesting idea: sign up for a regular monthly payment that gets divided among content creators you “heart” during each month. This has the right idea of no surprises (you know what you are paying however many people you want to reward); I wonder how the...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Business, IT
Lovely idea from Lenovo: detach the screen of your laptop and use it like an iPad. This isn’t far off what the TC1100 did all those years ago, but with a finger touch screen rather than a stylus. Now all we need is for the alternative operating system to be...
by Tom | Feb 9, 2010 | Reading
Cracking romp through the odd and odder denizens of Mayfair prompted by the pending demolition of Number 22. Thanks to La Moulerama for the link.
by Tom | Feb 9, 2010 | Personal, Reviews
Good to see that Chris’ first tour in five years has started well. Now all we need is for the Mail to give him a good review… Do go see him if you can.
by Tom | Jan 28, 2010 | Asides
New blog post: Twitter seems to have 15m active users http://raggett.net/2010/01/28/twitter-seems-to-have-15m-active-users/ # New blog post: iPad, not http://raggett.net/2010/01/28/ipad-not/ #
by Tom | Jan 28, 2010 | Personal, Science
Great that the group has pulled this list together. I’m going out for a candle-lit dinner tonight. I hope I make it back.
by Tom | Jan 28, 2010 | IT
Glorious 2-year old MadTV parody: “Fast upload with no water bloating”. My 2 cents? The real iPad looks like a lovely piece of industrial design, as alwaysI’ve become convinced that battery life issues aren’t germane any longer (pretty well...
