March 2010
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What You Can Buy for £40
A list of some of the things that £40 will buy you right now:
A hair over 35 ℓ of petrol;
One set of vaccinations for a very pissed-off cat;
A haircut for your girlfriend;
The following:
I know which option I prefer. (And unfortunately, I couldn’t avoid option two today.)
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Final Fantasy Finds Its Feet →
It’s always interesting to see a mainstream newspaper try to explain something like Final Fantasy to a “normal person”. This particular one is a little light on the history of the series, but otherwise the Telegraph has done a commendable job, and has avoided the easy option of portraying the franchise’s fans as a bunch of loopy nerds.
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“Is the WONTFIX decision final, or is there some way to appeal this?
This truly...”
– quintin.pan lays into Google over Chrome’s poor integration with Mac OS X.
It’s pretty much in character for Google to ignore this. To them, Chrome is the platform, and the underlying OS is just a convenient means to an end. Why reinforce the conventions of OS X when your ultimate aim is to move...
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“Scrolling is neat, and scrolling your way through buttery-smooth tables in...”
– Chris Clark.
I think that’s the crux of the matter right there. Scrolling through a long article/book is a lot of work compared to turning a page, because the part you’re reading actually moves, you have to track it, and also try and scroll at the same time.
The spacebar-to-advance-one-page...
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Mozilla Previews New Feature to Guard Against... →
It says a lot that the headline specifies Flash by name when the feature is actually targeted at all third-party plug-ins. In part, it’s because of Flash’s ubiquity, but one can’t help but feel that another big — perhaps the biggest — part of it is because of the platform’s poor performance and many security issues (not to mention Matthew Dempsky’s infamous crash bug). The...
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“I may be missing something, but I honestly don’t understand this. How is...”
– Lukas Mathis. Amen to that. (I’m still not sold on e-books though.)
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“I’m not sure what was so holy about PPC, except that latterly it was wholly...”
– Me, in a post/rant on the MacNN fora.