Jason Slater Weblog

Did I fall asleep and awake in a strange parallel universe? When I went to bed all was fine but when I woke up I discovered we’ve got internet browsers in fridges, online washing machines, robotic dogs on skateboards, mobile phones that take pointless pictures, Satellite TV that plays crap eighties games and MP3 players [...]

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The alarm goes off at six thirty. My partner insists on putting the bedroom clock twenty minutes fast so that we wont be out of bed late. Does it work? In a word … no. Instead I wake up slowly and become master mathematician every morning calculating the real time. I get in my car, [...]

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I have been looking at Microsoft Expression Web, the replacement for Frontpage. It seems to be geared more towards open standards, CSS, XHTML, and the like than the older way of working. This fits in well with my strategy so I may get hold of it in the next month or so to see if [...]

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I am considering Virtual Server. I have a DL380 G4 sitting here (64-bit) that was going to be RDP duty but the more I read about VS the more I can’t help thinking the machine would be better served running 4 32-bit servers instead. Watch this space for more…

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I’m entering a competition at University. Yes, I admit it – I go to University – and feel quite a bit out of place at that. Sometimes I think I’m the only one that’s actually interested in the subject that we’re being lectured at. I look around at the best and brightest around me in [...]

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