We still need to sort a few lighting fixtures in this flat - the hallway entrance light blew up last summer, the main living room light stopped working, and we still have an electrical wire protruding from the bathroom wall. (If you think that is scary, you should see the broken mains socket next to the washing machine! Anyway, having looked through a lot of the selections available at Farrey’s, I really liked the Java wall light fitting from the forecast lighting collection and the
Carthay 2 light wall sconce from the maxim lighting collections, although I’m not sure if they would fit in with our current decor in this flat. Perhaps something to keep in mind for the next time we re-decorate or move?
The site itself offers a lot more than the normal selection of light fittings, from rugged outdoor lighting to the latest in fashionable sconces, to accessories and ceiling fans. All the ranges seemed to be of high quality, and if you happen to live in America, free shipping is available on orders totalling $50 or more.

Yep, 14 and a half days, and I’ll be waiting to board the plane from Kaliningrad to Amsterdam. I have checked with the hotel about their luggage storage facilities, and all is OK there. (I can not check into the apartment they own until 5pm, and Alex & ChrisD arrive 4 hours after me anyway.) I have tried updating a couple of GPS related PDA programs, with varying success. As I do not want to risk losing the use of the older versions, I will leave trying to fix the problems (related to .NET Framework issues) until I am back in Kazakhstan, in five and a bit weeks. I am sort of itching to sort the problem now, but I know from experience that if something works, it is best to leave until the need is not there before attempting un-necessary upgrades. Anyway, I need to double check on a few forums that I have made fair and accurate summaries of what, where and how much to spend in Amsterdam, and then make sure the data is replicated across the PDA, Smartphone and real world paper and ink No flat battery is going to throw this break into a mess for me I discovered that there was no point in checking for Java based GPS applets to install on my Sony Ericsson K700 (my backup phone that will have my UK SIM card in it) does not allow access to bluetooth services through JARs, unfortunately. Given that Alex is bringing her (newer) Smartphone as well, and the installation files I need are on my mini-SD mem card, I guess I’ll just have to survive somehow

If you enjoy playing poker online, and use a Macintosh computer, your options are sadly quite limited, compared to people who use Windows powered PCs. However, rather than spending hours joining sites, only to find their web site technology excludes you, you can simply visit Mac Poker Online. Once there, you can discover just which sites and schemes are worth your time, (for example, if you were specifically interested in the PokerStars site, you could head straight to their review) and which can be skipped.
One aspect I particularly liked was that the site wasn’t over laden with adverts - obviously it exists to make money, but it looked & read like a REAL site, not just something knocked up over night to simply roll in the $s.

Secondly, with the information contained within the site, you can discover a whole host of Online Casino Bonuses - for example, the site owner will let you know about a special promotional code you can enter, when joining a new poker site, that will give you extra playing money, or increase your first deposit for free!

One other thing that became clear is that the site is useful not JUST to Mac users, but also to anyone interested in poker - not only do some of the poker sites use Java, to enable Macs (therefore Linux users and Windows PC users not at their own computer can play poker), but it also contained news and articles on current events around the world wide poker scene.

Since moving to Kazakhstan, I’ve only managed to catch a couple of televised poker games on the satellite channels, but it was good to see that the big names are still involved in the industry, such as Phil Hellmuth, even if they are having to cut down on their USA promotions for some schemes & sites.

Finally, für alle diesen Deutschen Schürhaken spieler , gibt es Poker für Mac (entschuldigung sie mich, aber mein Deutsche ißt nicht so gut, ich stoppte zu erlernen in der Schüle )

When I first read the description accompanying a link to the Register’s story, I though it was just another case of a lazy journalist (unlike my highly efficient journalist brother, Nick; more on that to come later…) not bothering to do any research before posting.
It initially sounded as though there was another remote connection application being launched, with some vague claims for industry firsts.
However, if you check the article in question, you’ll discover that this is quite different. Apparently, there will be real remote desktops available (for a fee of course), accessible through either a Java applet or ActiveX control, on a web page. This means that ANY technology capable of interacting with a web site, through the aforementioned methods, should be able to ‘use’ a Windows XP machine. The ramifications of this are quite wide spread, for example people can work on their documents where ever they happen to be at the time, if they can get an internet connection there.
Although I still regularly use various VNC clients, I can see this sort of technology becoming more popular in the future, as the uses of it are realised by people in different sectors.

This post is NOT sponsored, once more I found the information interesting, and hope some of you may do so also…

Need to admin a server? Need to look geeky but don’t have a Windows-powered mobile device?
Check out here , originally found via this blog.
It is a Telnet and SSH client for java based platforms.