I just picked up a Lenovo R61i laptop and immediately removed any trace of windows on the system and installed the latest version of Linux Mint, code named Helena. It is based on the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.Everything worked straight away except for the internal microphone which I only discovered today while trying to set-up [...]
Well, here is a photo of a UFO that was sighted over Pine Gap, Alice Springs Australia on the 15th of July 2009. It is a UFO in its true sense. An Unidentified Flying Object. Remember that it is the U in UFO that stands for unidentified. Crazy people believe they know what these things [...]
Warning – Geek Rant – Geek Rant….
So, my first generation Maxtor ‘One Touch’ (one touch with a hammer will fix this drive enclosure!) firewire external hard drive failed. The internal PATA 160gb hard drive failed and I, in my naive way, thought, “I should just replace the hard drive inside the enclosure so I can [...]
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The following came as a spam comment for the previous post. It didn’t take long to get spammed but I really liked this one. Quite a nice little story. I may have to use it one day as a theatre piece.
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The first time it happened, Adam was in the office gym. It [...]
I’ve been back to the nusstabox blog so many times in the last months and nothing new? what are you doing with your time hey? Bloody hell anyone would think you were some kind of artists thats got some sort of artists block or somthing… hey?
welll……
have ya?…..
It’s just about time you just sat down long [...]
Musing on the way the Somalian pirates are being portrayed in the media led me to the familiar conclusions regarding how inept journalists and producers of modern media are at actually being able to unbiasedly report on what is happening in the world.
With only a small amount of disengagement from ones own cultural assumptions we [...]
I found this little piece of writing today as I am looking through a whole group of blog posts from the last 5 years or so that I made before there were blogging tools such as wordpress. I feel that Userlands Frontier was operational at the time but it was a paid for stand alone [...]
I was working with text the other month and came up with the word
‘INRON’. It reminded me of German Industrial aesthetic. I tried to
capture this aesthetic and made it into a train station name with some
clipart symbolism which runs the theme a little.
a still nighta small frightwill you be therethrough this moonlight?