Review: db Audio T-Rex 6.2c speakers
I have recently installed a set of db Audio 6.2c speakers into my Calibra front doors. The install process itself was a Herculean task, but that’s another story… Not wanting to randomly buy some speakers online, I visited the Car Audio Centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham. As I have found with this shop before, most […]
Parallels error when using Boot Camp partition on Leopard
I have Leopard, Time Machine, Boot Camp and Parallels on my iMac. When trying to launch Parallels using my Boot Camp partition, I got the following error: More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp […]
Awesome quote
Another nugget from a chapter preface in Science and Sanity: “Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.” Bell, E. T. In other words, when people don’t know they jump to conclusions. Such is […]
Go out? No thanks.
Ok, I am officially old. I never really enjoyed going out on the piss much, only the alcohol made it bearable. That sounds odd, but I hate town, I hate pubs and I pretty much hate people. It’s all so pointless for me. I want to get stuff done, not talk bollocks for hours on […]
Pointless words and slogans
Korzybski’s Science and Sanity has got me thinking about the semantics of daily life. Some say it doesn’t matter, but I feel it does. I don’t want to be bombarded by meaningless communications. Today’s pointless words are as follows: “Fully” – Often used when it is not actually true, or cannot even be true. Example […]
Well made machines are invisible
I came across this quote at uni, but only just saw it in connection with interfaces and gadgets: Introspective psychology and analytical philosophy of the self, of perception and of will, do not seem to take into account that in any well-made machine one is ignorant of the working of most of the parts – […]