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Recently Read - 12th June 2008 - June 12, 2008

Here's a list of the books I've recently read, with an Amazon-style star rating and a few comments. The Best Man To Die - Ruth Rendell Another Chief Inspector Wexford novel. Not here best. Fables of Aesop - Trans: S. A. Handford I never read these when I was a kid. I wish I had. Some good lessons to live by, though they got a tad repetitious near the end. Too many variations on a theme. .
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eeeBook Reader - June 11, 2008

After deciding that the Amazon Kindle wasn't for me, and thinking that I could do the same thing with an Asus Eee PC, I've now had a chance to try it out. Apologies for the poor quality of the picture. My arms aren't long enough to take a better one. I install acroread, rather than use Evince as the latter still has problems with several PDF files I've tried. I put a sample book on my SD card, plugged it in and displayed the...
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Eee PC With Ubuntu And Orca - June 9, 2008

I got an Eee PC for my birthday; one of those with 1GB on memory and 8GB of "solid state" disk. I played around with the kiosk-mode Linux that came with it. I know you can fairly easily get out of that mode, but as I really didn't want to learn yet another version of Linux, I decided to install Ubuntu Hardy on it. I upgraded my previous created Ubuntu Gutsy bootable thumb drive to contain Hardy. These instructions helped out.
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/eee_pc_with_ubuntu_and

Links for 6th June 2008 - June 6, 2008

Been busy this week, so not much time to write, but I had to share these, especially the first one. Radiohead Nude In Obsolete Technology As one of the commenter's says, Thom Yorke's vocals, recreated as an array of disk drives is just amazing. I've got boxes of obsolete technology lying around. Maybe they're a sensation new undiscovered rock band. Yeah, right. (via Hack A Day). Big Buck Bunny A fellow Sun..
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/links_for_6th_june_2008

Wii Fit - Two Weeks In - June 4, 2008

You may remember from my initial observations on the Wii Fit that I set myself the goal of losing 2 pounds in 2 weeks. I ran the body test again today and I'm down 0.9 pounds from that initial weigh-in value. Wii Fit tells me my body weight is likely to fluctuate by up to 2 pounds during the day, so I should always weigh myself at the same time each day. I remember that for next time. My BMI is slightly less (25.36) but I'm still.
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/wii_fit_two_weeks_in

Links for 2nd June 2008 - June 2, 2008

Three more from the MAKE blog, which is fast becoming my favorite blog. Pleo Goes To Sea World Makes me wonder if those dolphins are thinking, "gee that looks like a tasty morsel". The Uno - A One Wheeled Motorcycle This to me just feels like an accident waiting to happen. I know several people who've had difficulty keeping their two wheel motor bikes upright. I can just imagine what would happen if they hit a pot hole riding.
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/links_for_2nd_june_2008

Wii Wireless Now Working - June 1, 2008

What a difference 9 months and a system update makes. Last August, when I tried wirelessly connecting to the Internet using our Wii, it didn't work. Instead, I ended up buying a Nin Wii USB-LAN adapter and setting up a wired connection. Today Duncan wanted to try out a couple of the newer Wii channels, so we moved the Wii into the office again, setup the wired connection and he played around for quite a while. While we...
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