Category Archives: Topical
something in the way of topical affairs
Vive la difference
Just sat awaiting an appointment and able to view the latest news on BBC TV and Sky TV. The main difference being the measured and assured translation of the French speaking police and reporters in Annecy on the BBC which … Continue reading
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[Bogus] Tech Pro Support Update
I had thought to just leave this matter well and truly alone, even going to the extent of not publishing a reply to the comment sent latterly from Tech Support Pro themselves, or at least someone called Mark Wilson, about … Continue reading
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Google Doodle – Eadward Muyrbridge’s 182nd birthday
A really nifty Google Doodle today that celebrates the 182nd birthday of Eadward Muybridge, the ground breaking photographer and image animator (Contains 1 attachments.)
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Rent-a-fraudster website operator gets nearly 3 years in prison
Rent-a-fraudster website operator gets nearly 3 years in prison. Justice. Can’t help but chortle a little at the explanatory for why this criminal service was actually raised. According to authorities, the two launched their site in Lithuania in June 2007 … Continue reading
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Tagged Brass Neck, Fraud, Justice
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Software Piracy takes to the skies …
Unbelievable – firstly – Pirate Bay announced a new way of downloading [ 'It's torrent Jim, but not as we know it' ] now digital piracy takes to the skies. [One can imagine the Raspberry Pi developers in Cambridge just … Continue reading
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A fresh start on a new hosting provider’s domain
Today, Just_A_QC_Blog begins afresh , with the entirety of cybero’s web presence , including this blog, hosted anew by site5. Having suffered the difficulties created by uk2.net’s dysfunctional systems – payment systems, support systems, cancellation systems, all have failed me … Continue reading
Quartz Crystal 2 arrives
Quartz Crystal 2 arrives. & well worth the upgrade [$5:00 discounted price when one upgrades from a registered copy of QC 1.0] A first offline render has been posted upon vimeo – part of a series of Iteration experiments. Hexagons … Continue reading
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Quartz Composer Guide – Updating
I have begun, afresh, to update the Quartz Composer Guide. Small changes at first. You can expect to find an expansion upon the number of useful tutorials about many different ways in which Quartz Composer can be used. There shall … Continue reading
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Quartz Builder Toys
I’ve recently been experiencing some odd inconsistencies with Quartz Builder produced Quartz Composer applications. In short, they haven’t travelled well, either crashing or failing. I’ve ensured that none of them have been created with orphaned file paths, or that they … Continue reading
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Last Quango in Powys
Last Quango in Powys, surely a play on words begging for a pertinent blog entry … Furthermore , one might well ask just what has been done stem the proliferation of the barely audited and hardly justified quangos in the … Continue reading
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R.I.P Don Van Vliet
Gone but not forgotten Don Van Vliet & in memoriam … a Quartz Composition set to a tabulation of Peon well remembered
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Winter & Season’s Greetings
You know it’s wintery when you get snow – and screensavers about snow. This season we have a really nice screensaver from Russell Warneboldt via alittlebitofnothing.net that is simply titled Snowfall. It uses snowflake images by Wilson Bentley from http://www.snowflakebentley.com/ … Continue reading
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Welcome one, Welcome All
Hello visitors, wheresoever you are visiting from This is my Quartz Composer & other computing goodies blog. Expect to see more posts regarding my works, and the works of others that I find interesting in due course. + & – … Continue reading
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