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The Beaver bites (recovering from a failing hard disk)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Last week I had a hell of a time when the Kingston SSD in my laptop started failing, badly. Poky is well known as a destroyer of disks but it seems cheap SSD’s are even more susceptible to it’s toothy maw.
At first it was just (extremely noticeable) performance degradation, but minutes after telling my manager […]

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All the toys!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I’ve acquired a bunch of new gadgets of late, I’m very excited about them all so I decided to promote them here.
Reading
A Sony PRS 600 E-Book reader was gifted to me this Christmas, and what a fantastic piece of kit it is.

I’ve been enjoying several public domain texts from Feedbooks as well as a bunch […]

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Self deprecating

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Two weeks after it was given my talk on writing Connectivity UIs for ConnMan is already out of date. Crumbs!
There have been over half a dozen ConnMan releases in the time since!
Because of this I’ve decided that I’m going to keep a set of notes against ConnMan git for budding UI developers.
These notes will sit […]

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