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It may get revived if I find something to say.

No, there never was a part 2 of my dreadlock guide.

For those like myself running XP on their macbooks, the release of Bootcamp 1.2 just made things a lot nicer. Previously all the drivers were packaged as one installer, which gave you no choices as to what was installed. Not a problem if you were happy to go with the defaults. I don’t like the defaults however, specifically the video drivers. I have for a long time used modified video drivers with lots more options than the default offering.

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I thought I would post some photos of my break, seeing as I posted this address in the Christ Church newsletter.  To make it worthy of your clicking, the following is for your enjoyment: This Christmas/New Year season I went to Rye, courtesy of Ros’ parents generosity.  It allowed me to do one of my favourite activities: poking baby starfish.

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Recently I’ve been receiving more and more emails that, instead of having normal attachments, have a file called winmail.dat. This is apparently Microsoft thinking they don’t have to conform to standards, and can send things in whatever format they like instead of a format that can be read by all mail clients.

Luckily there are quick ways to extract the files from winmail.dat.

The secure way is with a little program called TNEF. It’s free and can be downloaded from here.

Alternatively if it’s not that private, a guy called Balázs Bárány has made a nice little page that lets your winmail.dat file, and then let you download the files that are hidden within. It can be found here. I just went through the process in 25 seconds. Not a bad fix until Microsoft plays nice with their mail standards.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Someone let the thinktank that came up with this slogan know that I for one am sold. After hearing of the book “Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” which applies economic theories to fields that it really shouldn’t – like parenting, the relationship between sumo-wrestlers and teachers etc… I decided, why not apply conservation theory to my relationships, specifically to how I give advice?

So, in an effort to conserve, I am posting information here so that I can reduce the amount I talk, reuse advice even after is ceases being helpful, and recycle, I don’t know, others peoples’ material as if it were my own.

I also plan to make lots of money. Well, at least get a free book. Which is why you can, from the convenience of my own blog, order the book Freakonomics from Amazon.com, and I will get a hefty referral fee. Maybe not so hefty, but if I refer 20 people to it, I can order my very own copy, and then tell you if it was worth buying in the first place.

Here is the link… oh no it isn’t… something didn’t work… maybe I need approval first… Amazon people – hope you like my one post!