Archive for July, 2007

2007

28

Jul

Flooding Across England

By Gaz under Movies, Ramblings

Earlier this week, on a chance comment from one of Tave’s myspace buddies, I decided to have a look at some of the news coverage of the weather in Blighty. In my home town of Worcester, it’s a fairly common occurrence to see a sponsored swim across the cricket ground at Easter, and a [...]

2007

22

Jul

New Harleys for 2008

By Gaz under Bikes & Cars

Due in stores in September is the new 2008 Harley FXDF Dyna Fat Bob, which aside from looking like the mutant offspring of my Fat Boy and Tave’s Street Bob (and all the better for it!) brings some cool new features to the table, with its mean looking twin headlamps and V-Rod style fat pipes. [...]

2007

21

Jul

Industrial Strength Linux Lockdown 2

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

The second part of my Linux security article is the top featured artice at IBM developerWorks Linux Zone today. If you’re at all interested on how to push machine lockdown to its absolute limits, then please do check the article out (registration required, sorry).

Where the first part laid the ground work by explaining physical [...]

2007

20

Jul

Phomnemonal: Analysis of Sounds in English Speech

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

This is the second part of a short series of articles about implementing Phomnemonal, my experimental typing shorthand. The other parts are listed at the end of the article.

What’s in a Name?

Already, I’m tired of calling this thing my experimental typing shorthand, but luckily I had a flash of inspiration yesterday and decided to [...]

2007

18

Jul

Gatorland Florida

By Gaz under Travel

Our apartment is less than an hour from Cape Canaveral, and we were hoping to visit the Kennedy Space Center today, but while we were at the Florida Mall on Sunday we experienced the most incredible thunder storm I have ever seen. As we parked our bikes outside, the air around us actually crackled [...]

2007

16

Jul

Mac Installation Applications 101

By Gaz under Technology

This is the third part of a short series of posts about installing Mac OS X. Today’s article covers the third party applications I use, except for my email setup, which I’m saving for the next part, and some other goodies I’ll cover after that in the final part.

Since coming back from repair, my [...]


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