I recently wrote to my local MP, expressing my concern about the Digital Economy Act 2010, particularly about the way I was uncomfortable with the “blocking Internet locations” part of the bill, which meant that one injunction could remove a site from the Internet. (more…)
Those of you who’ve been reading here a while will know I used to be a huge fan of ClearType. Huge fan! I thought it made fonts really readable.
Then, about two years ago, I started to get headaches. Big, nasty headaches. So I tried fiddling with display options – upped the refresh rate (sort-of worked, for a while), changed the colour scheme… Eventually I found if I turned off ClearType, the headaches went away. Finally, I could get back to the day job.
My regular readers (all both of you) may have noticed that Esotechnica has been offline. I’m sure your curiosity has been insatiable, so why the outage?
That’s easy.
I messed it up.
One control panel – many sites. Too much wine, one wrong click…
Safe to say I won’t be doing that again!
I warn you, it’s a real mistake unless you plan to subscribe. We made the mistake of buying one without meaning to subscribe, and the programme guide just got smaller because there’s a new channel “TopUp Showcase” that is ALWAYS on screen. It makes me annoyed enough to want to destroy the box… (more…)
Bit of disk corruption splattered all my emails in Thunderbird. Fortunately most were still there in Google Mail, and I had a backup (from May) of the profile, and I managed to rebuild most of it. (more…)