Surely Wordpress isn’t this shit.

Posted July 7, 2007 * Comments(3)

 OK, admittedly I’m only 2 days in to re-assessing Wordpress (plus a painful week of porting - thank the bigbang that I never posted more in the past), but I am seriously struggling to stay open minded.  Wordpress is undoubtedly the industry leader in blogging packages, and I am determined to work out why, but boy to they do their best to hide the reasoning.

“Issues” that are already making themselves painfully obvious even at this early stage: Read more »

Dell TrueLife Screen

Posted June 7, 2006 * Comments(178)

I recently posted that I had picked up a new Dell Inspiron laptop and hinted at a problem with a reflective screen.

I was really disappointed in this. The TrueLife display (which I paid extra for) is supposed to increase colour brightness and contrast, which it does. Unfortunately the trade-off for this is a screen that is reflective enough to shave in.

Reading around the web other sites seem to suggest that this is not really a problem, something that I feel that I have to put right.

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