December 2007

Netscape dead now

It’s been a very long time indeed since I even bothered to download Netscape, and even when I did have it on my machine I never actually used it. Must be years since I really did anything at all with it. Now it’s being discontinued because apparently no-one else much is using it either: BBC [...]

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Photos from Nga Manu

Nga Manu Images: A digital photo library that is part of Nga Manu Trust, a charitable trust dedicated to conservation and conservation education. It has a Nature Reserve at Ngarara Road, Waikanae. Many of the images on this site are part of a long running project to develop a pictorial record of the ecology of [...]

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Books to go

I’m de-cluttering, cleaning up and cleaning out — ruthlessly. I want to dispose of around 100 books: about 50 currently listed on Bookmooch, and another 50 or so listed on the page Books to go. Some in the list on my site I’d be happy to give away; others I’d like to sell (mainly the [...]

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Books be gone!

I’m de-cluttering, cleaning up and cleaning out — ruthlessly. I want to dispose of around 100 books: about 50 currently listed on Bookmooch, and another 50 or so listed on the page Books to go. Some in the list on my site I’d be happy to give away; others I’d like to sell (mainly the [...]

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Maria’s Guides – a great source of Mac information

Mac users should make sure to visit, bookmark, and subscribe to the RSS feed for Maria’s Guides: Maria’s Guides — Support and additional material for readers of books and articles by Maria Langer. Maria and I collaborated a couple of years ago on the book WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide. That was my first real [...]

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When Apple hardware is repaired

A couple of weeks ago I wrote That six feet under sound, about how one of my MacBook Pro speakers had suddenly turned to static. I booked the machine in with Toucan, who repaired it last week. It sounds sweet again now. Then an email turned up from Apple, asking me to complete a survey [...]

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