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Proporta Schwag

Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:04 PM by stevecla01
  I posted about Proporta a while back – fine folks from the UK who ship lovely gadgety gear and send you a tea bag with each order :) Well they’ve noticed that the 2.5% VAT cut here in the UK isn’t exactly going to make us overnight millionaires Read More...
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Guess the X-ray

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 12:59 AM by stevecla01
Is it good or bad that I successfully guessed what this x-ray is? Bad I think. The geek in me focused on those 5 or so ports top left which gave it away for me. See if you’re right or wrong or at Guess the X-ray from Core77 Read More...
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My Life Defined by Dilbert

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:30 AM by stevecla01
Scott Adams has been leaning over my shoulder again… Read More...
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Keep Yer Cables Tidy

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:16 PM by stevecla01
Acting on a tip from Stephen Fry I decided to invest in some Proporta Cable Tidy’s . Cheap, cheerful and really rather good for those who carry too much IT swag around with them – i.e. me Highly recommended @ £2.95 for 2 and jolly good service from the Read More...
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The New Must Have Gadget

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:52 PM by stevecla01
Okay…I *so* need one of these – the new Pico Pocket Projector from Optoma . Not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes this is a the worlds smallest projector. It measures 2 by 4.1 by 0.7 inches and weighs 4.2 ounces and in that miniscule package is Read More...
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Geek Gear

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:46 PM by stevecla01
  Thanks to Helen for the pointer to geekware.ca – some worrying stuff on there that is true geek heaven. Best of the bunch for me was this floppy disk notebook for $10. If you’re under 30, this is what real computing used to look like (cue for over Read More...
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The End of The World – Rappers At CERN

Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:32 AM by stevecla01
Well the world still seems to be here despite the Big Bang experiment being underway at CERN. Should you need to explain this to the kids yourself, be sure to check out the rap video by Kate McAlpine and her friends from within the bowels of the Large Read More...
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:02 AM by stevecla01
Ever wondered what that text is all about? I sort of knew but I’m a geek’s geek and like to find this stuff out. Fortunately, Laura Robinson pointed me to this explanation in a Microsoft KB article.  Although the phrase is nonsense, it does have Read More...
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Tale of the athletic tape

Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:25 AM by stevecla01
  [Beach volleyball champion Kerri Walsh wearing a new type of athletic tape. (Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press] A bit off topic this one but ever since I read Lance Armstrong’s book, Every Second Counts , I wondered about the magic pink tape Read More...
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Marks & Spencer Does Geek Fashion for Skool

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:17 PM by stevecla01
Back when I was at school I was regularly questioned about my interpretation of the school dress code – I don’t mean I wore a dress but I never thought Farah trousers were outside “the code”. The code as I soon worked out basically meant you had to buy Read More...
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Worldwide Information Growth Ticker

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:27 PM by stevecla01
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I see dead pixels.

Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 5:12 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/17/i-see-dead-pixels.aspx';   Nice t-shirt from ThinkGeek for some of my more geeks friends.  Read More...
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A field guide to geek types

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 1:30 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/09/a-field-guide-to-geek-types.aspx'; This is why my blog is called Geek in Disguise – I think :) Check out Wired’s guide to geeks and let know which you think I’m closest to Read More...
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Sony goes Thunderbirds

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:56 PM by stevecla01
I just got this in an email from Sony. It’s a pretty nice looking device but here’s what grabbed my attention “Freedom from wires” but the image shows two sets of headphones and one of them with wires. I think what they’re Read More...
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It all started here

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 11:06 AM by stevecla01
    This week sees many people remembering the BBC Micro – for me the first real computer I ever dabbled with aged about 7 I think. We had a whole bank of these 8-bit, 128k units back at my school (Wirral Grammar) and marvelled at programming Read More...
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