Monthly Archive for March, 2004
A Prominent Solar Prominence does not do justice to an larger-than-Earth-sized cloud of gas trapped above the sun in its magnetic field. Just an incredible picture.
El Reg has a nicely thought through article on the fact that album sales are growing in both the UK and Australia. This basically means that most people are buying more albums if downloaders aren’t buying anything. More likely: everyone is buying more because the unit price has got more sensible. I’ll buy five Naxos CDs without thinking about it because they’re a fiver each and I know they’ll be good quality and worth having. The same would be true of pop CDs if the unit price dropped.
Free hotkey scripting tool (I use Macro Express, but this looks like a neat OSS alternative). Motherboard monitor helps you check if your poor overstressed box is running too hot.
Some relatively inexpensive ways of cooling your PC more effectively. Time for a new PC first – my current one is six years old. Respect to the old codger.
From the “what on earth possessed me” department. Why would anyone say “OK, sure, sounds like a nice plan” to doing late evensong (6:30pm) in Guildford Cathedral on a Sunday evening? It’s a slightly scary building, also known as the house on the hill for a) its commanding position and b) its resemblance to a cross between Amityville and Deep Thought. Bonus: saw some singing chums I haven’t seen for six years and we were “the best visiting choir we’ve seen in a long time” according to the vicar. So not all bad, just bloody tiring for a Monday morning.
How to increase your weblog’s popularity according to an internet gurus.
GHOST TOWN is a pictorial and excusably odd English record of a trip on bike back through the Chernobyl dead zone. Very, very interesting.
Metronomy Desktop Marketing gives away a free PC with ads that play every 20 minutes. Too painful for me I think, but it won’t be long before there’s a hack. Watch this space.