Hey. Thanks for checking out the site. You'll find posts on geek stuff, Howto's, reviews of stuff I get, as well as musings on things that happen in my life, which tend to be music related, or job related, so expect some stories of horror from the IT field!.

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Busy doing Nothing

So ever since the news came out at work about there being redundancies, the office has been really quiet. Consultants and IFA’s alike are staying clear of the office, only coming in when they really have to. And work wise, its been dead. So much so that I have spend a large portion of the [...]

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Clean House!

Well tonight I’ve spent a few hours trying to make things a bit neater at home.
We’ve been in this house for about a month now and its getting closer and closer to being straight. We still need a bed frame, and to get rid of some large boxes (waiting to offload them to someone at [...]

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email in (un)organisations

Sometimes I want to scream.
I’ve been interested in the whole GTD methodology and have tried to undertake it in some parts in my own life. The main one is email at work. (I should point out I have to use Outlook being WinXP)
At my old job, my inbox just seemed to be a general dumping [...]

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Great Mac Apps - Indepth Part 2

Burn - Burn is an open source CD and DVD burning program that some have compared and said betters commercial software like Roxio’s Toast. Now I have Toast and its pretty good, but its very bulky. Burn, is a nice simple little app that will burn audio CD’s, data CD’s (for Mac, PC, Joilet, UDF, [...]

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Great Mac Apps - Indepth Part 1

Quicksilver - Its basically described as a way of creating functional sentences to carry out actions on your mac. You hit the key combo to bring up the window and start typing. At the basic level, its a great quick application loader, much quicker than spotlight. At its most complex, you can quickly select files [...]

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Great Mac Apps I use

[digg=http://digg.com/apple/Great_Mac_Apps_Another_list]Thought I would do a list of various apps that I really like and later I will come back and talk a bit more about them.
1.Quicksilver -  GTD must have, and all round great app, even as a Spotlight replacement
2. Camino - Open source Web browser, Cocoa app so bit better than Firefox. I’m using it [...]

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Where am I?

I’ve entered the world of GPS a.k.a. sat nav. I recently got a HP iPaq 5450 PDA (partly GTD reasons), a 2GB SD memory card and a Holux GPSlim 240 Bluetooth GPS receiver. And with the magic of some navigation software, I now have the ability to get from A to B with little or [...]

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