Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
No, I'm not dying, but perhaps my treasured notebook computer is. I've been using my trusty Lenovo Z61t for longer than I can accurately remember but I assume it must be about 5 years now. In that time the DVD drive has stopped burning DVDs, the trackpad has completely stopped working, the pointing stick flakes out regularly (prompting me to write a script which restarts the driver when problems…