New MyBook

Years ago March 25th was the first day of the year. It’s the first day of anything for my new 750GB Western Digital MyBook.
It’s currently formatting as I wanted to change if from FAT to NTFS.
Extremely quiet.
This is a Version 2 model. Fifty quid cheaper than the older one at Amazon.co.uk – so be a [...]

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Last Resorts with External Hard Drives

My 500GB Western Digital My Book failed this week. From the time I first had it, there were moments when it would pretend that it had “had it”…… but then it would revive, giggle,  and we’d skip along merrily (verily !) together again for a time ; “borrowed time”, as is now evident.
I thought we had [...]

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How to Make Seamless Tiles in Painter

Right because this process is so convoluted, I can never remember how to do it – so I’ll note the method here —>
1. Open a Source Image
2. Click on the Plug-Ins Icon in the Layers Palette
3. Choose Kaleidoscope
4. Define your square sampler’s dimensions
5. Snatch a swatch
6. Click the Triangle Icon in the Layers Palette
7. Pick [...]

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Alack there’s No Lack of a Clack Clack CLACK !

If you are me (and be glad that you are not) it’s not until (the) you ((which is me)  (and watches me (me-mo-ing around)))) NEED TO FIND SOMETHING that you realise which items are IRRETRIEVABLY LOST when a 500GB Western Digital My Book Premium Edition decides to call “CLACK CLACK CLACK” and refuse ever again to be [...]

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Happy Presidents’ Day !

I posted this a month EARLY at YouTube and here it appears (more than) a month LATE via, my depository-discovery, of last weekend, : Dailymotion.
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Black and White at The White House, these Heads of State (and the United States) show a shared nose for (follow my ?) leader(ship).
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Scroll below to see if you recognised —>

George Washington
John Adams
Thomas [...]

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How to Fix Off-Set Graphics

http://2fmiataru.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/7339.html
The above link is to a thread about how to deal with a screen display that has been shunted off-centre.
I needed this today when I tried to grab my first go at Medieval II Total War – Kingdoms in almost six MONTHS (!) (I haven’t allowed myself any “playtime” since starting my Fantamorph Presidents Project), [...]

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The $ub-Rhym€ (“Mark” It !)

This is a film I put together for a competition run by a British financial web site requesting responses, of no more than a minute, to the topic :
“What Would Your Money Say to You ?“
It references £500 (a “monkey“, in slang) because that was the prize. There are logo-ed screens for “Pounds“, “Shillings” and [...]

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Online Video Hosts – Revver & Dailymotion

My fondness for Revver increased greatly at the start of the year when I found that the videos I had posted there were again playing WITHOUT the dismaying audio-lag that had briefly blighted them. Further to this, it was wonderfully easy to embed their extremely smart player into my monstrously messy webpages at http://www.somethingstupid.plus.com
As the [...]

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Daily Telegraph Article About Poems on the National Curriculum

A million years ago, when I first heard about Blogs, as discussed on the radio (and Thursdays), by Broadband-bandyin’, early adopters Techie-Type Nik Rawlinson and his GameCube-lovin’ pal, I believe the function of such sites was  to display a permanent, anywhereable-shareable (non-listing) list of online “Bookmarks/Favorites“.
The web-log, (constricted to “‘blog“) like a ship’s log, was in-keeping (if [...]

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cRHYME & PUNishment 0001

If you : “lose the shirt off your back“, do you have to invest in your vest ?

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