Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

Just lately I have mentioned my accent and how incomprehensible it is, both for people like D’Arcy who might potentially bump into me at Northern Voice and also Nicks podcast where he called out for audio comments. This is the closest I could find which while not perfect will give you an idea just how [...]

Apparently the secret to happiness is not what most people think …

Evil music industry fascist asshats from the USA have scored a victory over consumers and Russian sovereign law. It seems while at the same time apparently confirming that AllofMP3 is in fact legally operating they have strong-armed Russia into taking away their oxygen. Nice one, score +1 to the dark side.
These idiots won’t be happy [...]

Right after seeing registration was open via D’Arcy I am in. I am going to Northern Voice 2007, w00t.
I’m not good in conference/networking/social/etc situations but I am looking forward to this. I figure at worst I can sit quietly and listen and still get a lot out of it. Before conference we plan to spend [...]

A conference in the UK has had the bright idea that blogs should be self-regulated with a similar code to the UK press. Is it just me or does that idea sound like it will fail before it starts?
The idea is that victims of bad reporting would have some sort of redress.
Um, no they wouldn’t. [...]

I hate going to the doctors. My wife and I both have a white coat phobia dating back to around 7 years ago. When I do go something has to be pretty much about to drop off and even then I try to talk myself out of it “It’s not really green and oozing, it’s [...]

It’s no secret now that Nick started a podcast, he has been operating under the radar for a little while but in the last few days a few people linked him making him public. He has a good voice for podcasting and it is the only podcast I have ever kept up with.
At the same [...]

autumn leaves, originally uploaded by chrisgarrett.

… and winter begins

So far in my quest to move to Ubuntu Linux distro from XP I have managed to get my laptop working as a tethered network machine. Usability was transformed when I managed to get Ubuntu to recognise my Intel graphics card. Unfortunately I can’t get either of my Wifi adapters to work, neither the PCMCIA [...]

Yesterday I wrote how I was moving my laptop to Ubuntu from XP. First I am moving my laptop configuration, thinking at least then I will still have a working desktop if everything goes fubar. The sensible thing would actually be to do things the other way round, desktops have an easier time of it [...]