marxy's musing on technology

Each month I visit an electrical goods store to check out the televisions. The screens get bigger, have more resolution, and are cheaper eve...

My fourteen year old daughter recently completed a two week media survey diary for Roy Morgan Research . They paid her to the value of about...

FC6 seems like a great release. Install is smoother than ever, not quite as beautiful as ubuntu, but no hitches. I've tried it on a Del...

Hey, I just got the web framework django running on a Windows Mobile 5 PDA. I'm running under python 2.5 from here . There is a bit of ...

I've always been attracted to PDAs. Possibly it's my fear of being stuck somewhere and getting bored with nothing to listen to or re...

Searching a torrent indexer (for public domain content) the other day I noticed that the "find pretty girls in..." ad has got unne...

I was working on site this week and thought I saw MacOS X running on a Dell laptop. On closer inspection it turned out to be running windows...

Each fortnight our paper recycling bin was filled to the brim. The combination of a daily broadsheet newspaper (my wife likes inky fingers) ...

From time to time I record stories for radio and these need to be recorded in the field in "HiFi" quality. Currently I use a Maran...

I wanted a way to search for the name of a file locate style but using mdfind. mdfind finds files with the search term in any way associated...

I've been doing a lot of very productive python work recently and have been looking around for the best programmer's editor but stil...

I've been getting tons of spam that gets through our office's SpamAssasin filter. This was brought home to me big time after being ...