A while ago, I wrote on the site about setting my browser’s minimum font-size to 12px. This is larger than many sites use for navigation and, increasingly then as now, main content text. I chose to do this because struggling to read long lines of small text seemed rather like a waste of time. I could just knock up the minimum font-size of the browser up a few notches and be done with all these small font problems. So I tried it.

Over the past year or so, MS have been actively promoting the “fact” that Linux has a higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than Windows. TCO refers to the costs other than the initial outlay, such as hiring more costly engineers — rather than the cheapest you can get hold of — and not having the great bastion that is MS tech-support.

How true this is, I don’t know. Personally, I doubt it. Downtime from viruses would be one factor I’d point my finger at and there are many others.

I just installed Wine on my Gentoo system (just “emerge wine”, oh how I like portage!). Thinking that winex was required to run anything involving DirectX, I tried out StarCraft with a feeling that it wouldn’t work.

Installation works fine, intro loads, game loads! Further than I thought I’d get. But then, alas, no keyboard! So I couldn’t even type my name in to start a game. However, a quick Google revealed the solution. Adding a couple of lines to the wine config file (’[AppDefaults\starcraft.exe\x11drv] “DXGrab” = “Y”’, if you’re wondering) sorted that out. So now I have StarCraft working. Which is nice.

We went to a gig last night. We saw the Black Keys at the Fleece and Firkin. Only one word needed: amazing. They really were. It was one of the best gigs I’ve been to in a long time, at least as good, if not better, than the Muse gig.

You’ll need some background to understand quite why we were so blown over. I first heard the Black Keys on 6music a few months ago, playing a live set on John Peel’s show. I was listening to it in the background, not properly, only taking away the fact that I quite liked the music and that it was the Black Keys playing.

Ah, now I see why we in the UK have to wait until April to get an iPod Mini : that’s when Apple plan to open the iTunes Music Store over here. Good move, Apple, from a business point of view. I suppose good for me aswell, because it means that I have three more months to convince myself that it’s a bad idea to get one!

But… 4GB of music… to listen to… in a small package… so good… damn; it’s good I have those three months!