Archive for November, 2006

Calls not registering

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

For a while now my phone (Sony Ericsson K800i) hasn’t been registering calls that I have missed, dialled etc. It was annoying because if I had missed a call I would have no idea who had called!
Anyway, after searching around I finally came across the solution: Menu -> Settings -> New Events -> Pop-up. […]

Friends Reunited

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Met up with some friends from uni the other night. I hadn’t seen Rikard (far left) for about 7 years and I’ve only seen Max a few times since graduation way back in 2000! It was fun catching up. Just like the good old days. Plenty of nachos and beer too! The picture was taken […]

Buzzwords “R” Us

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Those of you who know me will know that I abhor the use of the term Web 2.0. It’s meaningless! Well it seems I’m not the only one. Mike Moritz, a venture capitalist whose successes include Google and Yahoo to name but a few, was recently asked what Web 2.0 means to him. He replied, […]

YouBoob

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

I managed to kill YouTube! I came across the New Numa video and saw that most of the comments on the first page were rather negative - the video is not worth watching. I also noticed that there were around 13,500 comments so I clicked to see all of them and boom, that’s when I […]

Emacs on Ubuntu

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

TRAMP is supposed to come installed with Emacs as default from version 21.4.x onwards - well, something like that. Having installed Emacs on Ubuntu using apt-get I couldn’t for the life of me figure why TRAMP wasn’t working! When I tried to open a remote file it kept trying to use FTP and always complained […]