After installing the 10.4.9 update to OSX recently I was annoyed to find the usual alt+option+eject shortcut (which puts the computer to sleep) no longer did anything. It meant I had to then use the menu bar to activate the sleep mode. A small but annoying problem. Well it turns out the short-cut does still [...]
Archive for March, 2007
March 12, 2007
GENERAL: How coffee is decaffeinated
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tipSince moving to decaf recently (many people were moaning about my incessant wittering so I knew the time was right) I started to wonder just how coffee is decaffeinated. Well, here is the answer… General Chemistry Online Full info above but this is my favourite bit… Supercritical fluid CO2 extraction When a sealed vial containing [...]
March 9, 2007
RANT: TV – Help! My dog is fatter than me!
By benfrain in Personal, RantBBC3 this one I think. It was basically about owners of dogs that feed them so much they are overweight. There is simply no excuse for this. If you are feeding an animal that much, that it can barely move, has trouble breathing – you may as well be kicking it about or stubbing your [...]
March 9, 2007
RANT: Most annoying advert?
By benfrain in RantYou know the one I mean? Halifax. Those BLOODY irritating songs. It started, in a mildly amusing fashion with Halifax ‘poster boy’ Howard, in his bottle top glasses singing along to a well known ditty. But now – NO! Enough is enough. I mean, just how irritating is the latest? That iceberg shaped girl doing [...]
March 5, 2007
TECH: Dodgy RSS feed from Blogger – workaround
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignIn case anyone else is having a problem with the RSS feeds… Blogger has suddenly, and without warning, switched its RSS feeds back to Atom formatting. If, like me, you parse your feed into headlines on other pages (e.g. www.benfrain.com/writing.php) or specific feed readers require RSS you may have a problem. Blogger have been made [...]
March 4, 2007
TV/POLITICS: The Great Global Warming Swindle
By benfrain in Personal, RantFor many months I have been a little worried at the accepted ‘story’ for global warming. By this I mean the almost evangelical crusades of seemingly all and sundry telling the populace that Global Warming is the product of man. Or, more specifically his carbon emissions. The propaganda surrounding this theory is so wide and [...]
