My magic Mac broke. Its magic poured out and dribbled onto the desk, as the DVD drive stopped working altogether. This gave me the opportunity to learn how to install from a USB drive... and then take it apart.

I love technology. I don’t necessarily mean gadgets and (specifically) not all the rubbish that some corporations produce in an attempt to make more money, but technology in its greater sense and as a concept. It is easy to be excited about and, specifically in this case, the computers we create enable us to better simulate atomic relationships, better develop/create toolsets on the micro and nano scale and therefore better make computers.

If every time you catch up with where someone was they've moved on a bit more, how do you overtake someone?

Me musing on the different methods that exist for cross-platform development; none of them ideal.

Is it just me, or has Firefox become a massive, bloated, memory-hogging and slow browser? Standards compliant it may be, but it shouldn't mean also becoming the most intensive task that my computer performs.