tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122794072024-03-14T07:22:04.538+00:00This blog <I>could</I> be about <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything">Life, the Universe, and Everything.</A><BR><BR>But mostly it is about me.Chris Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03447898092615771019noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12279407.post-1146939983908792022006-05-06T19:17:00.000+01:002006-05-06T19:26:23.936+01:00

Hi,I have been so busy with life, that I missed my blogs birthday! On the 1st of May, 2005 this blog had it's first post.22 posts later and we are here, and I have to say I have been a very poor blogger. Not even managing one post per week, while one of my colleagues rattles off 2 or more a day.So, this year I hope to grow up a bit and start blogging a bit more. With luck I can manage 1 a

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Hi All,I am currently on a training course for my ACSA (Apple Certified Systems Analyst). I have a Directory Services Exam tomorrow afternoon, and on Friday a Security Exam.All this, after a 4-day trip to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales with the Grade 5 class from work. My head feels like a vegetable.But, the certificate I will get is a good one, and will open lots of doors for

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Long time no post!My apologies for my continued laziness in writing this blog. The triangle of friends (I swear only 3 read this blog, nowhere near enough people for a circle) that read this will know that I have been busy, but this is no excuse.I will try to blog more often, but don't hold me to that.I just wanted to share this gem with you's after seeing it on TUAW.Have Fun™

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This advert for the Isuzu is fascinating to watch, as you keep wondering how they managed to do it. (WARNING: The music is a little loud, so if at work turn down speakers first!)As this is a Window Media file, I would think about downloading Flip4Mac, unless you happen to be unlucky enough to own a PC (in which case, I am sad for you).Flip4Mac is a great little plug-in that makes WMV files play

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Joe Normal 34 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 26% Dork For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe

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Grand Idea StudioCan you believe this was a hard drive platter 30-odd years ago!We now have a 60GB 1.8-inch Hard-drive ,a 6GB 1-inch Micro-drive, and a 4GB 0.85-inch Hard-drive.Where might we be in ten years time! MRAM is just round the corner, and then we go Quantum

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BenQ's 19-inch display made for Mac miniThere must be more third party products built for Mac minis than any other Apple Computer, and what's more they all look great. I really want a Mac mini. But may need to rob a bank to get all the extras. :)(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

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Max out your mini with matching drive and speaker systemWow! Now I have another reason for wanting a Mac mini(Via Engadget.)

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Subway &ldquo;parasite&rdquo; uses a Mac mini to project art:They will probably start showing adverts on the the tube soon.But it would be very worrying to see someone strap a case to the side of a London Underground train, especially since the 7th of July.(Via Engadget.)

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Now, I am Apple's biggest fan, well OK, maybe not biggest (mostly due to lack of funds, and not wanting to have a tattoo), but certainly a huge fan. I love their hardware, and their software. I love their design, and their innovation.But, in the real world I work with OS X Server, and this year the school upgraded to Tiger Server. Which prompted this:Ten-point-2-point-eight, was runnin' kinda

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This is the bloody result of not giving complete attention to the salad you are preparing. (Click picture for a close-up.)While cutting some spring onions with a freshly sharpened knife, cut the tip of my finger off. There was quite a bit of blood and more importantly I couldn't get it to stop. Even now, a full 20 hours after, it is still throbbing with pain. But for the first time ever I am glad

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OK. I know :- I haven't posted since early JulyI should never have said I would update oftenthe idea of &quot;Admin Update™:&quot; being twice weekly was stupidnext summer I do not want to upgrade a thing:)I owe all two of my readers an apology for not making my blog more interestingSo I am not going to promise to blog at prescribed intervals, but I will explain why I have been absent from the

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From this title you might think I am congratulating the Olympic committee, and you would be half right. They deserve a party and I am sure that we will rise to the challenge.But I am also congratulating the Emergency services of London, and Transport for London for doing such a great job.I only hope this is a one-off event

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Now, I don’t know which was stupidest; saying I was going to post ‘Admin Update™’ twice a week or not ordering a few dozen CD-R’s before the holidays.I'm now at a point where I need to back-up everyone’s work to CD, ready for them in September. Not being able to back-up yet or teachers still being here are hampering all of the other work that I want to do.Why can't they just go home and Have Fun™

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I have been watching the BBC all afternoon and the coverage has been great, the quality and just the sheer number of live acts as been amazing. Annie Lennox voice is still one of the best in the business and she plays a mean piano. Snoop Dogg sang “wave your hands in the Mutha F***ing air” live on TV at about 18:30. Jonathan Ross has been brilliantly funny with superb links. And, if you have a

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A couple of days ago I posted about not posting regularly and decided to do something about it. From this day forward I will be posting twice a week on the subject of Admin Update™.This means that any post with the prefix "Admin Update™:" will be about the progress (if any) or the problems I am having in my Summer Holiday project at work. As you may be aware I am an IT Manager in a school, and

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A few days ago I posted a reply on one of TUAW's many, many daily posts.This particular post was about a program called Ego Systems' Widget Preference Pane, which I haven't actually tried yet (note to self: get round to trying soon). I had noticed that the poster before me didn't like the idea of a version 1.0 of a program, which I can fully understand (it's a rule that I don't always follow) so

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OK, unlike my good friend and colleague Expat Teacher, who posts (not only once, but twice) that he has no time to post.I truly have been too busy to post, up until now. Hence the long gap between this post and the last one. ;)Working in the same school as Expat, I, also, am in my last week before Summer Holidays, and have been very busy during the last few weeks. But, unlike Expat I am not a

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As mentioned in my previous post, my temporary solution was to take my old PC and install the USB ADSL Modem on that, enable Internet Connection Sharing and ethernet connect my PowerBook to that. I then took it one step further and enable ICS on the PowerBook to share the incoming ethernet connection on the built-in Airport (wireless) and this enabled my little Clamshell iBook to get

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So, I just thought I'd spend my weekend upgrading to Tiger (MAC OS 10.4) and as always, I proceeded with a clean install, repartitioning my drive in the same process. I backed up all my data to my iPod and started the installation......A trip down the shops and a cup of tea later, I was greeted with the cheesy Tiger installation music (don't get me wrong the intro graphics are good, but the music

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OK, while looking through the gallery over at DashboardWidgets I came across this little beauty.DashBlogIt lets you blog straight from Tiger's Dashboard without having to type your log-in details in every-time. This might not be very useful to me, (as I only seem to post once a week:), but it should be good for you serial bloggers out there.

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Any who read this blog will have noticed the consistent use of a word not found in any dictionary.GenesysXThis is my Nickname/Handle/Tag/etc. It came about, around 1995, after wanting a Yahoo! Mail account and finding that christopherandrews@, chrisandrews@, candrews@ were all taken (no surprise there), so I created GenesysX. I have always been artistically and musically creative, hence the

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Due to immense pressure from all two of my blogging friends, I am posting my first entry.The "about me" partMy name is Chris Andrews, I am 26 years old and as the photo on my profile should have shown, I am tall, dark, and handsome. (Unfortunately, it was a bad hair day :). I was born and have lived all my life in East London, UK. My educational background is in Music Technology.I work in a

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