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Some people are easily pleased

Just found Ed Bott's report of the "crapware" free laptop that Sony have given him to review (thanks to John Gruber/ Daring Fireball ). I'm glad for Ed that he's so happy, and this is certainly a big improvement over the last time he got down deep with a Sony laptop, but I've...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 07-21-2008
New Buildings and Apologies

In the grand tradition of this blog, I need to apologise for not posting again. I don't have much of a defence, except that I've been very busy at work for reasons that I can now talk about: My employer has finally received all the confirmations, funding and planning permission we need in order...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 07-21-2008
Round-up

I just wanted to quickly gather up some links to articles I've found interesting of late. First of all, Claus Valca has some great posts over on Grand Stream Dreams. I want to draw your attention to a link roundup and comments post Claus made a week or so ago because of some interesting stuff he's...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 05-05-2008
Windows XP SP3 - What I've found so far

Just some quick notes on what I've noticed, or been told by people I trust, about XP SP3 so far. My own experiences are based on a clean install at home and a few test upgrades at work (ah the benefits of being paid to do R&D). What XP Service Pack 3 is - and is not. Windows XP SP3 is a collection...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-28-2008
Windows XP SP3: Pretty damn good actually. Windows Live Installer: Sucks like a vacuum.

I was originally going to base the title on The Scorpions' " Rock You Like a Hurricane " but then I realised that "suck you" was open to all kinds of misinterpretation and wouldn't end well. Still on with what I really wanted to say. I've just done a clean rebuild of my...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-26-2008
In the Meh-sh

So it seems the fruits of Ray Ozzie's labour at Microsoft are starting to appear in public at last. And I for one say "Your point being...?" I'd love to link to their blog at this point to let them explain it, but it seems that their .live.com server is knackered at the moment. Bodes...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-26-2008
Just because you're used to an abusive relationship, it doesn't make it OK.

I have to admit that some areas of the computer industry make me asahmed to be part of the IT profession at times. Take gaming - 1up.com's article on 5 botched game launches talks about Steam ... Yes, yes, we all love Steam now. By which we mean "It hasn't gone away yet, and people won't...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 03-22-2008
Waiting to switch...

Glenn Wolsey posted today about his experiences with migrating from a desktop machine to a MacBook Pro and how it's caused him to re-think his storage strategy. This got me thinking about my own computers and storage needs. I'm actually very happy with my MacBook even if it isn't a 'pro'...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 11-29-2007
Boycott Mac Heist. It really is that simple.

As if they didn't already have a bit of a reputation in some parts, it seems the people behind MacHeist have really decided to sink as low as they can this year. If you're involved with MacHeist in any way, I'd like to take a moment to thank you. I wondered if you were all as big a bunch...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 11-28-2007
I can has Leopard upgrade?

I'm sure it'll come as no shock to regular visitors here to learn that I've upgraded to Leopard today. Will it last as long as my Vista install? Place your bets now! The Leopard install took about 30 or 40 mins with the "archive" install option, which tells OS X to archive away...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 10-26-2007

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