Daily Archives: 13 Jan ’09
Le monoski est arrivé!
18:45: phone-call from Michel at Caribou Sport. The monoski has arrived and he’s fitted the bindings. ”Bring a ski-boot, come pick it up.” 19:00: I am the proud owner of a Duret Free 180 monoski! Tonight: a lack of sleep as I struggle to contain … Read More →
Windows 7 Beta
I wasn’t expecting much, but Microsoft delivered a wonderful first experience of their beta. See screenshots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Time I beta-tested some interesting new hardware!
Random display corruption on the images? I started to see this in several places. Maybe this is just a bug in the driver when using a virtual display? But why was the desktop background and the drawing of very large images flawless?
Five minutes into using my brand new 64-bit Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) on VirtualBox I was greeted by this wonderful error. I thought it was quite cute how Windows was checking for a solution to the problem: truly this version of Windows can do … Read More →
Uncharted Territory
After a while of skiing the slopes my mind starts to wander off, and gradually my body starts to be drawn similarly off-piste. Today was no exception: after several hours of practising parallel turns with knees and ankles touching — in preparation for monoskiing — … Read More →
I still maintain it is a silly sport. Lisa, on monoskiing