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Tried the Live CD version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my new laptop (Compaq Presario CQ60-305EA) last night, screen redraw was painfully slow. It was almost like a window blind effect opening or moving a Firefox window.

Most confusing, wonder if it has problems with the NVIDIA GeForce 8200M?

Testing the Dev build of Chrome running on my Mint Linux VM.

Feels pretty nippy, especially scrolling through Google Reader.

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Been testing a new search engine http://www.nibbo.com/ so far I like it.

Its really a nice front end on existing search engines so you can search a number of things at the same time.

Finally got round to installing DosBox on my Ubuntu laptop, now I need the time to play Monkey Island.

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Making of Circuit Lady
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Photo edit I did a while ago using some stock images and The Gimp.

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Dog Walk Flower
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Sometime you forget flowers grow wild as well. Snapped this one in a big patch of weeds.

Take with my LG Renoir

You've got to love cheap Chinese eBay electronics. If they work that is :)

Finally caved and got a USB 2.0 card for my aging Dell machine.

My first LG "Hello World" application.
Just need to test it on my phone now ;)

I wonder if my Java skills are too rusty to come up with anything useful.

When I'm bored I go and play with the servers.

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Stupid me forgot to hand my camera off so no picture of me holding it.