Neil Turner's blogPowered by procrastination.Stop... upgrade time!- June 23, 2008 My parents' computer is in need of a mid-life upgrade. It was bought in October 2004 and at the time gave acceptable performance, but it's flagging a bit now in comparison to the latest and greatest.http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/23/stop_upgrade_time.html Heinz Mayonnaise Advert- June 23, 2008 'The advert sees a man making sandwiches for a young boy and girl, who address him as "mum", while another man prepares for work. Before the second man leaves with the children he shares a kiss with "mum", who adds: "Love you. Straight home from work, sweet cheeks."'http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/23/heinz_mayonnaise_advert.html Films that I own on DVD and haven't yet watched- June 17, 2008 Shrek 3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Hellboy Nacho Libre Family Guy presents Blue Harvest Of those, I haven't even seen 3 of them at the cinemaon TV. This is mostly a mental note to make...http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/17/films_that_i_own_on_dvd_a.html A Fresh Start- June 8, 2008 I've been wanting to re-design this site for some time. The previous design dates from late 2005, and has been in place for the best part of 2 12 years. So here's a brand new look for the site.http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/08/a_fresh_start.html Kernel Panic Screensaver- June 7, 2008 Months ago, I downloaded a Kernel Panic Screensaver, which is a screensaver for Mac OS X that simulates a kernel panic - the Mac equivalent of Windows' Blue Screen of Death. I suppose the main reason why you would download this was so that you could stealthily set it as someone's screensaver and then watch their face when they think their system has crashed and all of their unsaved work has gone.http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/07/kernel_panic_screensaver.html Fixing MT's Performance- June 4, 2008 I've mentioned a few times that I have been having problems with Movable Type's performance - high CPU usage and timeouts. The CPU usage turned out not to be caused by MT, but the timeouts were - most of the time when rebuilding pages I would get a blank page because it took so long.http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2008/06/04/fixing_mts_performance.html |