September 2005

The Segways come to town

In September 2005 I hired a Segway for 10 minutes. It was fun.

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Cool OSX Apps

I just love playing with new hardware and software on my Mac, so Cool OSX Apps is a great find. [Thanks digg.]

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Bangladesh mobile help-line for women

It’s always good to hear of technology making real change possible in people’s lives. The Gender and Information & Communication Technology (GICT) Awards honor and bring international recognition to innovative and effective projects by women to use ICTs for the promotion of gender equality and / or womens empowerment. This year’s winner is Pallitathya in [...]

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What I’m listening to

If I listen to the radio at all it’s usually the National Programme — I loathe commercial radio. Otherwise I listen to music from my own collection of CDs, via iTunes of course, or podcasts. One thing I don’t like about National Radio though is the extremely limited selection of music they play. We seldom, [...]

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My lips are sealed – but a girl’s got to breathe!

I could never be a diplomat — my mouth opens and words rush out, often inappropriately. I remember once in my youth waxing eloquent about how utterly ghastly a particular radio station was, only to find the person I was talking to was the station manager … So, as a member of the Web Standards [...]

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The Informit Reference Library

Mac OS X Unleashed by John Ray and William Ray is a complete guide and reference for Mac OS users. 32 chapters, a couple of appendices and some introductory material — it’s all there online and you don’t need a password or credit card to read it. Publication date seems to be 2002, so we [...]

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