Monthly Archives: February 2007
Mac Mini
| 19/2/2007 | Posted by Pete under General, Play |
The picture of the mac mini I hope to be able to afford, once I have sold my stuff on ebay. It comes with 512MB RAM 60GB HD and Mac OSX Tiger. Look at the full specs
Having used Linux for the past six months, I feel like a bit of a cheat bringing home one of these, but not too bad – at least it will still be usable in a years time, unlike if I chose to upgrade to vista. From what I’ve seen so far, both Linux and OSX are more stable, look nicer and can do more out of the box than Vista. Oh yes, and there’s none of that crappy product activation stuff either. It just works. I’ve been wanting one of these ever since I saw what could be done with iMovie and the rest of the iLife suite.
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Current List of stuff on ebay: Shameless Plug
| 18/2/2007 | Posted by Pete under General |
This is a list of things currently on ebay. They will be up there till next sunday so feel free to take a look.
With the money I make from these, I’m hoping to be able to afford the new Mac Mini
Unfortunately these items are only available in the UK. Happy bidding!
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How to write an excellent Best Man’s Speech
| 17/2/2007 | Posted by Pete under General |
Since most of the hits from my site come from the Best Mans Speech I wrote for Richard’s wedding, I thought this makes me totally qualified to write on “How to write a Best Man’s speech”. Here goes.
Firstly, there is no point in using a canned speech, except maybe as a guide on how to structure the piece. The best Best Man’s Speeches are those that are unique to the individual groom, and need to reflect this as such. There is no point in putting funny stuff from other speeches just because they are funny – they need to contain more than a hint of truth. (more…)
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Equal Opportunity and Discrimination
| 9/2/2007 | Posted by Pete under General |
There’s an interesting post over at http://txfx.net/2006/10/26/equal-opportunity-and-diversity/ which is quite interesting. Reading the whole discussion is quite enlightening on how people think. My favourite is the quote below from the actual article.
The deluded promoters of “equal opportunity + dedication to diversity†want to believe that an employer can discriminate in favor of one person without necessarily discriminating against someone else. They’re wrong. Discrimination in any direction is the rearranging of a meritocratic result. Discrimination in favor of one person is discrimination against another person. It’s a mathematical fact.
Dead right, regardless of the merits of the discrimination there are always people on both sides. If there wasn’t it would be called “being friendly” I guess.
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Another week
| 9/2/2007 | Posted by Pete under General |
Hopefully during the next week I should have time to work on several open source projects for a few days. Trouble is… where is the best place to begin? There are so many good projects out there, covering a wide variety of applications, tools and other things, that it is hard to know where to contribute to make a difference.
What I would be interested in, however, is something that makes organising (yes, this is British English after all 
information, and retrieving it easier. Unfortunately, there are a number of projects out there, that whilst good, have no intention of moving into the arena I’m interested in. Several of these applications are Tomboy, Labyrinth to name two in particular. Where I would like to see the two of these projects going is in the direction that neither seems to be taking, namely that of allowing information to be structured in a way that mirrors the brain. I would like to see Tomboy develop a viewing layer on top of the xml data that allows data to be viewed in more than one way, perhaps through the use of xslt and plugins designed to be used with this. It would need two way transformation, as well as the ability to edit in any form. I think this is a pretty tall order. However, the program is not currently structured to allow this.
The above is not a criticism as such of Tomboy, for it is far far better than any desktop tool I’ve seen before, but rather an indication of the direction I’d like to see it take. Unfortunately, if you look at the website, it seems to be merely replicating the functionality of a wiki on the desktop, albeit very elegantly. Having said the above, it is a tool I use daily, and is miles ahead of any windows program that attempts to do a similar job.
Labyrinth, which someone has mentioned as a possible link in to tomboy is again another very useful tool, although not yet as mature as Tomboy. When I say mature I mean its practicality in using the tool everyday is not quite as good as Tomboy, although it is still a pretty useful thing.
I particularly like the idea of a labyrinth style display onto files and folders, showing how they are related in a non-hierarchical manner, such as libraries used by this program, source files for it, and header files and so forth.
I hope to write sometime about Beagle, which is a tool I love and hate at the same time. This relationship will become more clear when I have formulated the post.
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