After a few hours walking around and bussing between shopping areas (like Oxford Street) we still hadn’t found the “new” netbook, a Samsung NC110. It’s the next version of the NC10, which was very popular (and therefore out of stock all over the place). I think the difference is the battery — the …

This weekend was a long weekend, and the (annual?) London FrightFest – lots of new and indy horror movies showing in Leicester Square over four days.  It would’ve been fun but as we’re being cheap whilst on a single income we opted to stay home and watch horror movies instead.

I thought we could …

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery …

The replacement RAM for my new workstation “curiousity” finally arrived yesterday, stuffed through the letterbox by the friendly neighbourhood courier to fall upon worn rental-property pile like the softest rain on virgin soils. I don’t normally get things delivered to my home address, since I’m …

A collection of loosely coupled network devices running a variety of collaborative and cooperative services to provide an information grid/mesh within a home environment.

So I’m networking my apartment, drenching it in EM radiation from access-points and wifi devices: workstations, laptops, portable …