Archive for December, 2007
Kung Fu Hustle
This film was on television last night and the review said “funnier than most comedies, more action than most action movies”. They were right - I thought it might be just about watchable but it was actually very good - highly amusing with superb action sequences. It never takes itself seriously - the [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2007 under Life.
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Christmas holidays
Well it’s the time of year to disappear “up North” to see the family for a week. It’s certainly a little colder in Cheshire, but it’s a price worth paying!
Train was only half full on the way up, shame it was delayed by a good 20-30mins - taking the time for the bus and [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2007 under Life, Linux.
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Soundbridge talk at HantsLUG
Two talks at HantsLUG in two months
Hugo had problems with openoffice crashing on several machines during an animation (64-bit issue by the looks of things) and so couldn’t finish preparing his talk in time.
So I decided to extend my demo on the Soundbridge to something a bit longer to fill the gap. [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2007 under HantsLUG, Linux.
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SoundBridge
I’ve been busy setting up a Roku/Pinnacle SoundBridge (the cheap one) as a wireless music player. I’m very impressed with the initial setup:
it scans wi-fi to see if it can see a music server (which it will prefer to use)
failing that it will prompt you
it also supports WEP and WPA encryption
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Posted: December 2nd, 2007 under Life, My setup.
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