the mini Blog

As my last post for 2005: Happy New Year to you all!
I hope you all had a good year, and will have a great 2006. As for me I have a lot of exams to look forward to in July and I will have to do a lot of studying. Apart from that it [...]

This is really cool! I’ve seen many Mac Mini’s fitted into cars, but nothing this professional. It is truly amazing.
This guy went all out in his setup, putting the following into his 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee:
- Mac mini
- Xenarc 700 TSV
- Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse
- BU-353 USB GPS
- Carnetix P1900 and P5V adapter
- RadioShark USB
- [...]

2005 has been a banner year for gearheads, with more hot gadget launches than you could shake a USB cable at. But there’s a great chasm separating pre-launch buzz from real-world performance, and not all gizmos live up to the hype. Here’s a look back at the most anticipated product launches of 2005. Some were [...]

Jonathan Ive, the guy at Apple responsible for the cool designs of the iPod and iMac, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for his wicked designs and uber cool ideas. Well Done! The CBE is just under KBE (Knight Commander of the British Empire) he was close to getting knighted. Don’t [...]

A man who woke up and found his head bleeding, drove to work and left a note for his boss before going to the hospital to find he had a bullet lodged in his brain, authorities said.
When Glen Thomas Betterley, 53, noticed the blood Thursday morning he asked his girlfriend if she had struck him. [...]

This one definitely falls into the at-your-own-risk category: A beta version of Windows Live Messenger 8, nee MSN Messenger, has been available for download from Microsoft.com for some time now, but without an invitation to the private beta test it has been impossible to use, until now. The trick is to use a recently-released “proxy [...]

With the latest version of Wordpress arriving today, I took it upon myself to upgrade the mini Blog to WP2.0. After battling some errors it works, well sort of. I have some problems:

Fixed - On the archives page the live archives doesn’t work. The text is all capitals, too big and overlaps each other. [...]

The BBC has released an interesting list of things that we learnt (as humans) over the year that we didn’t know. These are my personal favourites:
3. While it’s an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it’s not an offence to throw it over someone’s garden wall. [details]
6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been [...]

The closest to an official price that we have got is that it will be under $299, definitely. Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, in an interview through Yahoo Japan stated that the Revolution will be in a different price point then the competitors, and that it will definitely be below $299 (stating the lowest [...]

Engineer Bryn Carlyon was issued a TICKET by a traffic speed camera in Cardiff, UK. But he used multiple timed snaps by the camera, plus a little basic math, to PROVE IN COURT that he could not have been traveling at the speed on his citation. The case was dropped “due to insufficient evidence” and [...]