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The iBook was mended. It came back. It developed the exact same fault again. Immediately. It is being mended again.

No posts for a couple of days because I've lost control of my iDisk. A colleague is working on a project that requires her to send the designer lots of big image files, around 50Mb each. An obvious case for a simple FTP drop-box, read only, from which the designer could suck the files. Indeed, I mys...

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Chu’s Verissa BC10SA White Senior Doe

The blog equivalent of a nice cold shower to cool the brain after last night's fevered rant. Dunstan's wonderful and newly-designed blog sent me in search of what he called Wabbits, childish lout. And there they were, fuzzy mutant wonders. Betty Chu, “Breeder of the only Angora rabbit who e...

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Not an entirely fair title, I grant, but I may be experienced the first pangs of remorse after an on-going fling with open source software. The task has been to implement an image bank on my work website, in spare time and with no money. Clearly a job for open source. The site itself runs on Nucleus, which really is a rather good open source content management system. 1 And some Nucleus enthusiasts have implemented a kind of photoblog on their sites. But I need much more functionality than those seem to offer.

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Two gizmos, one manufacturer, one winner, one loser. The winner is the drop-dead gorgeous PowerMate controller from Griffin. It just works, leaving me wondering what I used to do without it. The loser, Griffin's iTrip. And the fault lies not with Griffin but with the vastly overcrowded airwaves here in Rome.

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