Dirt

January 20, 2010

Back around ‘96 / ‘97, myself and Ben used to update a little website that we named ‘Dirt’, with some reviews of BMX videos, music, and information on various ’scenes’ around the UK.  The inspiration came mainly from Kieran Chapman’s eWire e-zine, and while it was fun to do at the time we lost interest [...]

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Hard Drivin’

January 18, 2010

The past couple of years have seen the rise of a strange branch of motorsports, an uneasy alliance between the ‘Xtreme’ generation of sports sponsors and the motoring world that’s resulted in a new event in the X-Games and chaps like Ken Block (I still have a Blockhead cap somewhere, cheers Dennis!) earning the respect [...]

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Skate and Create

January 15, 2010

So this post was inspired by a little video that I came across recently, which includes Ian MacKaye (amongst others) talking about how life as a skateboarder changes your perception of the world around you.
It’s funny because it’s this exact same conversation that I’ve had with so many other people (BMXers mainly) through the years.  [...]

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Eyup now then lad

January 14, 2010

The Budweiser ‘wassup‘ advert sparked quite a few parodies back in its day – including some from the company itself, but there was one in particular I was especially fond of in which the ‘wasssuuuup’s were replaced by Yorkshiremen saying ‘ey up’ instead.  Fast forward a few years and a conversation with my girlfriend resulted [...]

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These Arms Are No Longer Snakes

January 13, 2010

2002 – 2010, thanks for the music!

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Microsoft name-and-shame

November 19, 2009

This morning Dan’s mailbox was graced with some shitty Microsoft newsletter which named and shamed 21 companies busted for selling computers with dodgy copies of their software.  It’s surprising to see how many of these are from ‘up North’ (Bolton, Manchester, Oldham and so on), and just out of curiosity I did a quick Google [...]

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Favourite Mac OS X Applications

November 13, 2009

I was nosying back through some old posts on my site and came across this one from 2006 regarding my favourite Mac OS X applications, and figured it’d be interesting to  update this for 2009 / 2010.  While the ‘way’ I work feels like it hasn’t changed, the range of core applications I use to [...]

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Vista stability?

November 12, 2009

Here’s a choice quote from Simon Aldous, who is a Microsoft’s partner group manager, regarding Windows 7.  While on one hand it’s nice that Microsoft have (finally) admitted that they’ve drawn heavily from Mac OS X’s design and philosophy when it comes to the user interface, his closing comment is what stands out (for all [...]

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Booting 64-bit Snow Leopard on a 2008 13″ Unibody MacBook

October 11, 2009

According to this post, booting into a 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard on the ‘original’ 13″ Unibody MacBook is artificially crippled by Apple, despite the hardware being perfectly capable:
$ ioreg -p IODeviceTree -w0 -l | grep firmware-abi
| |   “firmware-abi” = <”EFI64″>
This is somewhat annoying given that I’m a proud owner of said machine.  Why bother, [...]

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Twitter account suspended

August 13, 2009

23:31 [nick] man nice
23:31 [nick] my twitter account has been suspended
23:31 [nighty-] lol wtf
23:31 [nighty-] why?
23:31 [Durz|lnx] oh noes
23:31 [nick] no idea
23:31 [Durz|lnx] gonna be climbing the walls within a couple of days
23:31 [Durz|lnx] trainspotting style
I’ve been a pretty keen user of Twitter for about 18 months now, but that all stopped last night thanks [...]

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