The Plashing Vole

I've attached this decal to my MacBook, as I'm a fan of Magritte's work and thought it was witty. The designer has it laser-etch...

While I think about it, I want to plug Phantom Gorilla's BBC Radio Widget. If you own a Mac, it's a dashboard mini-application which...

Afternoon all. I've spent two hours at the Apple Store in Birmingham, taking advantage of the assistants' kindliness. My lovely new ...

Been for a swim with Neal. Copying 180Gb of my music from a knackered hard drive over to my new Mac - manually. It's very slow and I...

Hurrah! New MacBook Pro has arrived. It's lovely. Boo! The old one is too old to handily copy everything over. Must go to Apple shop to...

Morning all. Not much from me today - I'm writing a lecture on What Is Cultural Studies for this afternoon. It's a big subject with ...

Just pressed 'buy' on the Apple Store. 2.53Ghz, 4Gb memory, 320Gb hard drive 13.3" MacBook Pro . Certainly the most expensive o...

Oh how I want the Apple iPad . I've resisted the iPhone on financial grounds. I've kept my iBook G4 for 7 years: I'm a sensible ...

Cynical Ben encourages us to buy art, and to list the five best things on which you've lavished money, as he's done . Being Ben, his...

Anyone else ever had this, or know and explanation? I've had a horrible, sweaty hour trying to work out why access to my own blog was fo...

I've downloaded the iPod OS 3.0, for very little purpose other than being a Mac obsessive, though shake-to-shuffle is quite cool. So I...

I know I'll lose most of you now, but yesterday was a glorious one for Apple Mac users: new iPhones (time to get one), a stunning new OS...

I'm not ignoring you. I'm on a PGCE day with no power sockets within reach, and my poor old Mac can only last 15 minutes on battery ...

Hello all. As it's a holiday weekend, I won't be troubling you with too many ramblings, opinions or links. What are you all doing wi...

IT services have managed to fiddle with the servers so that Mac users can't send mail out - so don't feel snubbed if I don't rep...

Today I should have been in scenic Telford on another PGCE training day - learning to make podcasts, but it was cancelled at 7 this morning ...

I haven't posted anything geeky for a while (hey, by my standards anyway), so here goes. I run Mac OS X 10.4 on an old iBook G4 which is...