This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
I have, pretty much, switched over from Windows XP to Mac OS X, but I still need an XP machine to run a couple of programs which I use daily. There are a few solutions to this, I’ll leave you to search for them online, but I have been using Parallels for some time here [...]
Simon mentioned Twitter in an email earlier and asked if I used it. Well I have of course heard of it but couldn’t see the point from the descriptions I read. Anyhow, today I decided to give it a try and you’ll notice a new widget down there on the left of this page showing [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
Went to see Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra – Royal Albert Hall, London, yesterday. it was a bit of a long day as we didn’t get back to the Island ’til about 01:30!
As usual Bill was on good form and the evening was a good one despite the acoustics in the RAH. Strangely, [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Isle of Wight, Music
The Isle of Wight is reported to have some of the best skies for astronomy in the UK; in order to prove and quantify this, the local Astronomical Society recently purchased a Sky Quality Meter (SQM) (shown below) and we are slowly lending it out to members so they can take reading from various places [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
