The journal

Year: 2007

Geoff the lazy so & so

 Ellee sent me the link to the Texperts tonight, these are folks who you can text any question too 66000  and get an answer. They have a challenge quiz to see if you are suitable as someone to work with them.  Here are my results:- Category Percentage Pass General Knowledge – Music 40.00 Fail General […]

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Putting your head in a spin.

A cool optical illusion or a computer gimmick. which way is this dancer rotating? The theory is according to Geoff of Geofftech. If you see it spinning clockwise, then you are a ‘right sided’ brain person, who uses feeling, is ‘big picture’ orientated and your imagination rules you. If you see it spinning anti-clockwise, then […]

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Visual Word associations

Just discovered from Adam Pash’s excellent Lifehacker feed this tool for visualizing word meanings. As the Visuwords website says “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” Here is the visual word map for Cambridge clearly showing the […]

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Wrestling with a Leopard

This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:- The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the user forums suggested removing the printers PDE directory. I then discovered that Leopard doesn’t work with Firefox or at least not the drop down menus on the […]

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