Welcome
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Welcome to rho.org.uk, a little web site maintained by Rob Hague
(see below). There's a variety of stuff here - poke around and see
what you find.
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Rob Hague
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As mentioned above, this site is written and maintained by
Rob Hague, an expert at talking about himself in the third person.
Rob's
homepage can be found here.
In 2002, he tried (and succeeded) to
write a novel in
a month. At some point he'll take the logo off the front page. But not
yet.
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Software
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I occasionally write things that might be of some use to
other people (and isn't owned by some
huge corporation
or other). Some of this can
be found here.
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Mac OS X Odds & Sods
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I've had an Apple iBook for a while now, an have generally been very pleased with it. I've created a
virtual dumping ground for my musings about Mac OS X here.
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Links
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This page is a collection of
links to useful/interesting/fun stuff that I've come
across.
You may have arrived here by mistake; if you're an opera
fan, try roh.org.uk. If you're
looking for Reproductive Health Outlook, they're
here.
I also collaborate with Ben Chalmers to produce the
Imaginary Movie
Database, a site dedicated to those films that other sources
seem to miss. We've not updated in a while, but we'll start again Real Soon Now. Honest.
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About This Site and Whatnot
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This site is basically a homepage for Rob Hague (webmaster@rho.org.uk). I'm
happy to receive comments about the site, but please don't
send advertising material, ways to Make $$$ Now, or
Your CV.
If you want to keep track of updates to the site without the tiresome hassle
of actually visiting it, bung the RSS Feed
into your favorite news agregator (I use NetNewsWire Lite).
This site is generated by blosxom, with
the following plugins:
- theme
- rating
- meta
- seemore
- archives (modified)
- entriescache
- bloglikeapirate
(disabled)
- fixed
- blox
- interpolate_fancy
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Yet Another Way To Waste Time
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John Gruber's Daring Fireball is one
of the few blogs that I read regularly. It's always worth a look, and this
morning was no exception; he provides a link
Folklore. It's run by Andy Hertzfeld, one
of the team who designed the original Mac, and is basically a repository of
anecdotes about, for want of a better word, “hacker culture”. At
the moment, it's filled with stories from the Mac project, which is a
particular treat given it's 20th aniversary (yesterday). It's like
the Jargon File, but without
the whole ultra
right wing neo-conservative gun nut angle.
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42, Actually
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The BBC have a story
about the new, might-actually-happen, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie.
They've cast two of the high points of Love, Actually - Martin Freeman
(Tim in The Office), and Bill Nighy ("Thankyou, Ant or Dec... Kids, don't buy
drugs - become a rock star, and they give them to you for free!") - as Arthur
and Slartibartfast respectively. They're also retaining the vocal talents of
Stephen Moore, the original Marvin ("God. I'm so depressed."). It's nice to
see they're not screwing it up
yet, although they still have to cast almost everyone else. Johnny Depp as
Zaphod? We can only hope.
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Spot The Difference
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To celebrate the 20 years of the Macintosh, Apple have released a very
slightly different version of everyone's favourite Superbowl
commercial.
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Small but Useful
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Raging Menace has a bunch of little
Mac OS X programs by Alex Harper, and very useful they are too. SideTrack is a replacement
driver that lets iBook and PowerBook users reconfigure the trackpad to provide
scrolling areas, tap-to-right-click and on. MenuMeters provides a set of
neat meters for memory, CPU usage and so on, that don't take up much screen
real estate; I've found it particularly useful to confirm that it is indeed
more memory that I need, not a faster processor (when the paging indicator
goes off the scale, that's a hint). I'll probably have a look at SleepTight at some point
too. It gives Jaguar the Panther-like functionality to lock the screen when
the machine sleeps. Handy when you're carting the machine round, but I'm only
using the iBook at home at the moment, so I don't really need it just yet.
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