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  • SSD drive in my MacBook Pro – wow

    October 29, 2010 | Categories: Geeky

    My MacBook Pro has increasingly been creaking under the load, especially when I use it for Demos using VMware. So I removed everything I could and installed a 128GB SSD...

  • The iPad in education

    October 27, 2010 | Categories: iPad

    Really interesting thoughts on the [impact of the iPad in education](http://speirs.org/blog/2010/10/19/ipads-curriculum-for-excellence-and-the-next-generation.html).

  • The Story Behind “Free Public WiFi”

    October 17, 2010 | Categories: Geeky

    Ahhh, so the “Free Public WiFi” I keep seeing as I travel is in face the result of a bug in Windows XP… I’d always thought it was an attempt...

  • How Tech Support should be done

    October 15, 2010 | Categories: Geeky

    Brilliant… [![XKCD On Support](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support.png)](http://xkcd.com/806/) Most ISP technical support lines are sooo frustrating, I do so wish there was a way to say “Look, I understand all the moving parts here,...

  • Dilbert explains why managing Developers is so hard

    October 10, 2010 | Categories: Dilbert , 'Running a Business'

    This is too close to home to be funny. [![Dilbert.com](http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/00000/2000/000/102053/102053.strip.sunday.gif)](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-10-10/ "Dilbert.com") The only sustainable strategy I’ve found for managing software developers is: - Make sure they are people you like...

  • Forget your password, go to Jail?

    October 7, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized

    A [19 year old gets a 16 week jail term for not disclosing an encryption password](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831). I suspect most geeks have taken stuff and encrypted it – although I rarely...