Insert Coin tag:www.blackmac.net,2009-02-19://1 2009-04-22T12:43:03Z Movable Type 4.23-en Cool Roy Tanck Flickr Widget tag:www.miyama.eu,2009://1.52 2009-04-22T11:47:24Z 2009-04-22T12:43:03Z Roy Tanck's Flickr Widget requires Flash Player 9 or better.Get this widget at roytanck.com... Gerard

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]]> Ada Lovelace, worlds first coder tag:www.miyama.eu,2009://1.51 2009-03-24T22:35:21Z 2009-03-24T22:41:17Z Suw's pledge got me thinking about this remarkable young lady. One of my favorite parts in the Bill and Ted's excellent adventure is where they get Beethoven from the past and he ends up in a shopping mall playing music... Gerard Suw's pledge got me thinking about this remarkable young lady. One of my favorite parts in the Bill and Ted's excellent adventure is where they get Beethoven from the past and he ends up in a shopping mall playing music on synthesizers.

What if we could bring back Ada Lovelace and let her loose on a modern supercomputer?

Another favorite lady in technology would have to be Susan Kare, the creator of many of the Macintosh items I hold dear, in fact her smiling Mac was what got me interested in computers.

]]> Richmond 'green' program! tag:www.miyama.eu,2008://1.8 2008-05-20T04:12:03Z 2009-03-24T11:47:53Z I do not own a car but instead cycle or take the bus. This weekend I did my annual spring gardening where I cut the hedge, cut the grass and pull out weeds, seeing we have had a warm and... Gerard I do not own a car but instead cycle or take the bus. This weekend I did my annual spring gardening where I cut the hedge, cut the grass and pull out weeds, seeing we have had a warm and rainy spring there were a lot of weeds so it produced 7 bags of the stuff which I neatly placed outside for collection this morning only to discover that Richmond upon Thames council does NOT take garden waste...

A quick call to Richmond upon Thames council revealed to me that I have 2 options.

1. register as a volume garden waste person, buy special bags or a huge green container and have it collected in a month from now.

2. somehow cycle with 7 huge bin bags to my nearest recycle center, a whopping 40 min cycle ride away.

I asked the guy on the phone what other options I might have but there were none, very 'green' thinking Richmond council.

]]> The end of the world, as we know it... tag:www.miyama.eu,2008://1.9 2008-05-19T04:56:20Z 2009-03-24T11:51:09Z Scobleizer just blogged on the possibility of Microsoft buying both Yahoo and Facebook, no idea if this is true but if it is we are in deep shit. Yes I'm a Mac fanboy but that does not mean I dislike... Gerard Scobleizer just blogged on the possibility of Microsoft buying both Yahoo and Facebook, no idea if this is true but if it is we are in deep shit. Yes I'm a Mac fanboy but that does not mean I dislike Microsoft for no good reason! Microsoft has a deserved reputation for eating up various technologies, companies and people by either buying them or crushing them by selling the Microsoft version of whatever these people have on offer for much less, something they can easily do because of their market dominance. I believe that is called exploiting your monopoly on the market but no court so far has done anything real about that so maybe I'm just seeing things.


Anyways, I get of track. Microsoft owning the web (they will with Yahoo, Facebook, their market dominance and their bank balance) is a SUPER bad thing.


The below video sums things up real nice, please spread the word...

]]> How much power does one need? tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.10 2007-12-24T17:59:20Z 2009-03-24T09:31:29Z I do mostly emailing, websurfingm chat and a tad of html coding on my MacBook, do I need dual 2ghz for that? I think not so I installed CoolBookController written by a Swedish guy called Magnus Lundholm (who charges fellow... Gerard I do mostly emailing, websurfingm chat and a tad of html coding on my MacBook, do I need dual 2ghz for that?

I think not so I installed CoolBookController written by a Swedish guy called Magnus Lundholm (who charges fellow Europeans 25% tax) and I'm most pleased! Using my MacBook running at 1ghz I have not noticed any annoying slowdowns yet my machine never got over 43c, bit of a difference from the normal 70c plus.

coolbook-screenshot.png

]]> SGI O2, long time dream! tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.11 2007-12-17T07:57:30Z 2009-03-24T09:31:42Z I have always wanted to own a SGI system, ever since I went to the opening of the Dutch SGI offices and was blown away by these solid designer pieces of raw computing power. Imagine my joy when I won... Gerard I have always wanted to own a SGI system, ever since I went to the opening of the Dutch SGI offices and was blown away by these solid designer pieces of raw computing power. Imagine my joy when I won one on eBay located a 10 min bike ride from my house for 99p! After dismantling and cleaning I now have a fresh SGI O2 purring away under my office desk! Another thing I can tick off my list of things to do ^_^ The state of spam tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.12 2007-11-20T09:06:25Z 2009-03-24T09:31:52Z I'm helping a friend out setting up a weblog on a new hosting account he has, we forgot to enable the spamassasin and were only alerted by a system message saying the hard drive was full. We received well over... Gerard
I can not imagine a bigger pest on the internet right now.... Ok, maybe that troll John Dvorak :P]]> Addicted to Mac tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.13 2007-11-20T01:58:33Z 2009-03-24T09:32:01Z 97%How Addicted to Apple Are You?Nashville Dating... Gerard 97%How Addicted to Apple Are You?

Nashville Dating

]]> Ecto blogging working again!!! tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.14 2007-11-16T07:55:29Z 2009-03-24T09:32:14Z I have been having problems blogging from Ecto for some time and today decided to trouble shoot it. Turns out that having your blog on the server at http://www.blackmac.net/wordpress/ and the public address being http://www.eccosys.net/ don't work well! Seems to... Gerard I have been having problems blogging from Ecto for some time and today decided to trouble shoot it. Turns out that having your blog on the server at http://www.blackmac.net/wordpress/ and the public address being http://www.eccosys.net/ don't work well! Seems to be working fine now Ecto points directly at the real address. Any excuse... tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.17 2007-10-28T09:36:40Z 2009-03-24T09:32:59Z Just did a clean install of Mac OSX 10.5 on my MacBook and wanted to see if Ecto is happy in it's new sparkly fast home. Let's press the publish button and see!... Gerard Just did a clean install of Mac OSX 10.5 on my MacBook and wanted to see if Ecto is happy in it's new sparkly fast home.

Let's press the publish button and see!

]]> Moving to Japan, death and Danny Choo tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.18 2007-10-28T06:03:36Z 2009-03-24T09:33:13Z Reading Danny's rather interesting posts on life goals and his journey that ended in Japan. Some very inspiring reading, was a bit worried about the headstart but after doing the same death test he did I found I have a... Gerard Reading Danny's rather interesting posts on life goals and his journey that ended in Japan. Some very inspiring reading, was a bit worried about the headstart but after doing the same death test he did I found I have a good extra 10 years to live so not all hope is lost ^_=

I am going to die at 91. When are you? Click here to find out!

]]> Little Snitch, your friend! tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.19 2007-10-28T05:48:27Z 2009-03-24T09:33:22Z I have been using Little Snitch like forever as I like to know when any application is making calls home. So far it was the expected lot that called home but not so in Mac OSX 10.5... just now I... Gerard I have been using Little Snitch like forever as I like to know when any application is making calls home. So far it was the expected lot that called home but not so in Mac OSX 10.5... just now I needed to do a quick 1+1=2 and found that it does not equal 2... it equals calling home to wu-calculator.apple.com

Now, you tell me, what could a calculator possible want from a server at Apple?

]]> 'new' blog post tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.20 2007-08-10T00:43:36Z 2009-03-24T09:33:44Z Wow, it has been a LONG time since I last blogged. Getting married, a son, different job responsibilities just meant I did not have the time, not sure what I will do with my blog in the long run. This... Gerard Wow, it has been a LONG time since I last blogged. Getting married, a son, different job responsibilities just meant I did not have the time, not sure what I will do with my blog in the long run. This post is just an excuse to try out the latest version of Ecto after I finally managed to retrieve my activation code. My google analytics thing tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.21 2007-05-08T16:22:00Z 2009-03-24T09:34:55Z _uacct = "UA-1804244-1"; urchinTracker();... Gerard ]]> My twitter thing tag:www.miyama.eu,2007://1.22 2007-02-24T12:05:44Z 2009-03-24T09:35:06Z follow puckman at http://twitter.com... Gerard
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