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No Regrets

April 12th

This is just a brief follow-up to my previous post on the keyboard I bought.
I’ve now had the chance to use it a fair bit, and I thought I’d give you a small summary based on my experience.

It rocks.
It’s better than I had hoped.
It is sex on a stick.

Buy one. Now.
That is all.

Another New Keyboard

March 28th

A little while ago I posted about some new hardware that I bought. In that update I mentioned that I’d bought a new keyboard because my old one was a bit shaky and had the old UK layout which was no longer valid since I have now returned to Australia.

A Hardware Update

January 4th

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been getting tired of the keyboard that I have at home. I’ve had it since December 2004, and it’s well past its use-by date. I bought it while living in the UK and hence it has the UK keyboard layout. This was fine while I lived [...]

Reactivate? AGAIN!?

December 27th

This is just a quick post to say how much Microsoft and their draconian OS licensing mechanism are pissing me off right now.
Last week my computer stopped booting. I didn’t get around to looking at it until a few days ago because I had visitors over from the UK. Not just that, it is Christmas, [...]

A Quiet Purchase

February 6th

Yesterday I bought something that I know I should have bought a long time ago. In fact, I should have bought it at the same time that I bought my video card. In case you didn’t know, the stock fan that comes with this video card is by far the noisiest ever. It’s the [...]

Is it Becoming Illegal to do Anything?

December 23rd

I can’t help but feel that over time the world is getting harder to live in. To be a bit more precise, it’s becoming very difficult to do anything at all for fear of putting yourself in the firing line, or on the receiving end of a law suit. Two things that have caught [...]

Dual-Screen Development

December 19th

As it tends to be with many things in life, I just didn’t see the need for multiple monitors until I had the experience myself. Up until my time at the game dev studio in the U.K. (which will remain anonymous :)), I had no idea what it was like to work on a machine [...]

All joking aside, I have to have a Wii

September 21st

I’ve been a gamer for a very long time. My interest in games is what launched my programming career, and as a young kid I used to spend hours trying to figure out how those games worked on my Commodore Vic 20. Peeking and Poking was as far as I got in those days, but [...]

Wiedererlangen von einem toten Computer

September 20th

Computer failures. We’ve all been bitten by them, and I’m pretty sure we’ll all be bitten by them again. Good quality HDD storage is becoming more common, but despite the advances in technology, our drives still only have a reliable lifetime of a few years. Power supplies are becoming more solid, but they still blow [...]

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