The funniest thing about this is that it’s almost entirely true. Thanks to Kieran for this link.
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Goodbye George
The death of the mercurial soccer legend George Best was particularly sad. To many, myself included, he was the greatest footballer of any generation. An iconic figure who’s talent gave joy to millions. He played the people’s game with an unsurpassed flair and elan that made it truely beautiful. Yet he also ushered in the modern era of superstardom, wealth and excess. True genius walks a fine line…
- “I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.” – Max Beerbohm
- “Every true genius is bound to be naive.” – J.C.F von Schiller
I sincerely hope he’s found peace at last…
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Turning autoplay off & keep your hair
Couldn’t find a way to turn autoplay on XP off then I realised it was probably in the Group Policies for XP. After some searching I typed gpedit.msc at a prompt and this will make the group policy editor appear. The setting is in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System
Very useful. Many users will have noticed that occassionally auto-play makes you want to tear your hair out when it tries to install a large program or play a large media file bringing your computer to a standstill.
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Tripped over down memory lane
I was in hospital this morning so I spent the period of the day, when I wasn’t sleeping, trawling some blogs and catching up on the minutae of other people’s lives. I managed to find this. A fascinating documentary on the first form of internetworked geek communion, BBS. I was a big fan of these in the day and used to connect using my gee whizz Acorn Archimedes. That singled me out as a power user by the way. At a heady 4800 baud, I really smoked the joint out. Anyway, geeks who’ve been there and done that, like me, can check out this wonderful documentary and relive BBS in all their monochrome glory. There’s even a nice little interview with Internet co-inventor and Google VP, Vinton Cerf.