The scroll ball of Apple’s “Mighty Mouse” is useful but, like old-style mouse balls, it gets dirty and stops working. Apple’s cleaning procedure is pitiful. Stripping the mouse works: here’s a guide. All the best.
Tags: Apple, Mighty Mouse
Advice, sometimes frivolous
The scroll ball of Apple’s “Mighty Mouse” is useful but, like old-style mouse balls, it gets dirty and stops working. Apple’s cleaning procedure is pitiful. Stripping the mouse works: here’s a guide. All the best.
Tags: Apple, Mighty Mouse
Bumped up from first posting on 17 Dec 2007, as I reflect again on sustainability. See also Wikipedia for an introduction, Jancovici for a summary of a classic treatise, and Friedman for an alternative, if now old, perspective. Albert Bartlett: The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. I dare you not to watch them all, if you watch the first 2 1/2 minutes. Also here.
Tags: economics, Environment, Maths, Sustainability
Yesterday, I delivered my first ClubDriving mentoring session in advanced driving. I’m listed as the Club’s Buckinghamsire mentor, but as my fellow members of the High Performance Club know, I have some work to do before I can claim true driving mastery. It’s a testament to the minimum standard required for the HPC that I seem to have provided some useful coaching. It was a good morning in beautiful weather. We set off in my Saab, aiming for quality and […]
Tags: Driving
I wanted to hear a lecture in Westminster at 18:45 – Charles Moore for the CPS – but the Jubilee line was suspended for a signal failure and the DLR closed eastbound for a “passenger incident”. So, thousands waiting in the tube station, long queues for taxis and the westbound DLR access closed for crowding on the platforms and in the trains. Really quite unpleasant. At least the KTM has been carbon offset… I understand the Jubilee line has reopened. […]
Google’s analytics tool is superb: it turns out my readers are mostly in Oxford and London. Thanks for keeping in touch!
Tags: Business, Technology
Producing this gallery with iPhoto and a .Mac account was as easy as selecting these pictures and clicking “Web Gallery”. Try clicking “Carousel”, bottom left. Too easy for words.
Tags: Skiing