Monthly Archives: April 2009

Black Screen of Death

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Ok, so the title’s a bit of an exaggeration. It’s hardly as serious as the legen- (wait for it…) -dary Blue Screen of Death on Windows. The effect on OSX is simply a black screen with nothing but the pointer visible, and it only happens intermittently when you open up your laptop after it’s been […]

Offshore Euro Accounts

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UK banks suck. Natwest in particular aren’t able to transfer funds from a Euro currency account in the UK to a Euro account at another Natwest branch in the Isle of Man without charging something like £20 each time. This truly sucks because I need to do that for my pension. When I had an […]