When Google launched their “Desktop Search” software there was a fair bit of hype surrounding it. One thing it reminded me of was the old DOS program from the 1980s called Magellan, written by Lotus. It seemed to get some good reviews back in those days, mostly due to its ability […]

After discovering podcasts I went back and had a second go at trying to find an RSS aggregator setup that actually worked for me. Initially what I wanted was something that would send me an email whenever an RSS feed was updated. I had a look at rss2email but it didn’t work for me (I […]

Around Christmas time I was given a discman-style CD player but after a couple of months it’s already broken. The latch that holds the spring-loaded door snapped off, so now the door won’t stay closed. This probably has something to do with it accidentally being dropped twice, although I tend to think that […]