Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

BBC NEWS: Baby animal love story
A pair of Sumatran tiger cubs and a set of young orang-utans, all abandoned at birth, have become inseparable after sharing a room at an Indonesian zoo.
Awww. Nothing more to add.

Kevin Smith watching Galacticast, originally uploaded by Moth.

Ignore the first segment of the linked video, just look out for the part where a guy gets instant producer credit by filming Kevin Smith watching the vodcast. How cool is that? And do the security guys have to act like jerks?
kevin smith makes a wish come true

Can anyone explain why I have to keep re-pairing my Mighty Mouse with my MacBook every time I want to use it?
The mouse is lovely, but it sucks having to get them to notice each other every time I want to use the stupid thing.
Also, while I am on the Mac topic, how do I [...]

Why we blog, originally uploaded by VancouverDuane.

If there is one phrase that sums up blogging it could be this.

See how paranoid you are in a test from the BBC … turns out I am “medium” (not a medium)
26-50
Your responses indicate that you have a medium level of belief in conspiracy theories. You may well be quite trusting of your close friends, partners, those you work with and others but sometimes cannot be [...]

Google are creating AI
“We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence (AI) and to do it on a large scale…It’s not as far off as people think.”
So step 2 they arm it. Step 3 it becomes self-aware. Step 4 …. OMG!

Roll your snowball down the hill in Snowball 2007

DARTON "SUMMAT TO 8 " CAFE, originally uploaded by ALOFBRID.

Thanks to Wikipedia another insight into why I sound so strange … really, it is still English … just
A Yorkshire Poem
There’s niver nowt, but-what there’s summat.
And when-there’s summat, it’s-offen nowt.
And them-that allus’ thinks they’re-summat,
‘as-nearly allus-risen fray-nowt.
It’s no-use sittin-an-waitin’ for summat,
‘Cos more-offen, it’ nobbut’ ends-wi’nowt.
An’ come to-think [...]

I have had my MacBook about 8 weeks now. Switching wasn’t as difficult as I thought. In fact it has been mostly fun. After the first few days I haven’t looked back. The only thing I haven’t managed to do is setup printing to my networked laser printer. Seems I am not alone, check out [...]

I was tooling around with my BTHomeHub, trying to stop it allocating my ISP provided IP address to my MacBook using DHCP (stopping me seeing my other network devices) when I remembered the USB socket on the router. Plugging in one of my external hard disks gave me a very pleasant surprise - plug and [...]