It’s the end of the week and Rui is out tonight with some girlfriend from college. I should be spending this time far more constructively. Instead, since I’ll be going fishing (yes, fishing) tomorrow, I thought I’d write up the blog entry for this week now otherwise might not get the chance. That’s right. It’s [...]
I quite like listening to podcasts and the robustness of iTunes as a podcast manager was one of the strong attractions of the iPod to me. One thing that I do find frustrating, though, is the inability of my iPod Nano to playback video podcasts. And I don’t mean as video. I’m not expecting something [...]
I really should have come up with a more interesting title, I realise, but when you’re onto a good thing keep on gooding it is, I think, the expression. Either way, week 2 has come to an end and not without the same lingering concerns as last week. I still find myself reacting negatively towards [...]
I have just experienced the frustration of searching around for a collection of passport photographs that I know I saw only a week or so ago but which have now disappeared off the face of the planet. This is not an altogether uncommon occurrence for me and it possibly others of you out there are [...]
The end of my first week back teaching has come and it hasn’t been without some lessons for me either. God, that’s tortured. That’s what happens when I try to use ‘I’ less in my writing. Suffice to say, I had a few classes, learnt some stuff and am looking forward to week 2. The [...]
Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]