Was pointed to a strange site called Where’s George earlier. You enter the serial number off various denomination dollar bills and see who else has had that note and where. Having wondered if there was a UK version, a quick google found Dosh Trader.
Category: Personal
It’s rather cold out there
Woke up on Wednesday morning to this…
Not a huge amount of snow, but certainly enough to turn everything white. There was also a fair bit of ice around – saw several cars and a van slide around the road a bit whilst on my way to drop Harry at school.
Happy Birthday Lori
Happy Birthday to my wife Lori who, as I write this, is currently on her way back from a talk at the Tate Modern in London and should be arriving back in Nottingham in about 10 minutes.
Comment spam again
After having seen at least 12 spam comments added in the last couple of days I finally decided to do something about it. As it’s a fairly widespread problem, there are plenty of pages explaining what to do about it. Some of them are easy to implement but easy for spammers to get around them if they put their minds to it. Others are similarly easy to implement (because someone else has done all the hard work) but would provide a bit more protection.
Firewire drive enclosures again
Went back to Maplin Electronics yesterday and got an Mapower enclosure. It’s new so isn’t in the catalogue yet but it has an Oxford 911 chipset for the firewire side of things. It works with the mac just fine and even lets you boot from it using Alt to select a boot disk.
Firewire drive enclosure issues
It seems not all firewire drive enclosures are equal. Those with an Oxford 911 chipset apparently work properly with OSX and you can boot off them. The one I got today from Maplin was unfortunately not an Oxford chipset but a Prolific PL3507. It works ok in so far as it mounts the disk in OSX but trying to boot from it doesn’t work – it just hangs and doesn’t find it. Time to find a different one.
Mac mini
Those new macs that were announced during the latest Expo in SF are just so cool!
The Mac mini – G4 processor, up to a Gb of RAM, 40 or 80Gb disk and as many connections as a 15″ Powerbook. Firewire 800, firewire 400, USB 2.0, ethernet and modem, with an optional Airport Extreme and/or bluetooth card.
The problem with holidays…
The biggest problem with having a holiday and not really going out much is that my body clock tends to get all screwed up. Wake at 12pm (lunchtime) and go to bed at 4am.. wouldn’t be so bad except I have work on Tuesday. I guess I should go to bed now.
Annoyances
I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a while but never quite got around to it. It’s probably not all that interesting, but I really want to write it because then maybe when one of these things happens, I’ll stop thinking “Must complain about that (to no-one in particular)”
Happy New Year!
It’s 2005. Happy New Year to everyone. Not much to report except that I spent a quiet night in front of the computer experimenting with mod_perl examples from my new practical mod_perl book (see entry about Christmas).