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Life update…
Sometimes things happen – you discover something, work something out, learn how to do something – and it changes the world for you and makes you very happy. It’s good when that happens. It’s nice that – teetering on the cusp of disaster – one such has managed to happen to me. And that’s very…
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JP essays a neologism: Qwertonym
I love this: An aside. I was inordinately pleased to see that the BlackBerry predictive text support actually recognised the word foibles, even though it suggested doubles first. And how do I describe such words?. Surely there must be some word analogous to synonym and homonym that describes words thrown up as alternatives by predictive…
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Read all the way to the end…
From http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/2678229.html:
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Reasons to Love and Hate ZFS
So yesterday – inspired by Chris Gerhard – I installed my own homebrew take a snapshot every 5 minutes script on my shiny new home NAS box. Everything has been going swimmingly, so I decided to cut-over from my old striped-external-disk solution on the iMac, to the new 2.5Tb RAID-Z on the Solaris box. After…
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Empire Farm
I just discovered my ex-colleague Adrian Morgan has chucked work (except for the occasional contract, apparently) and expanded the home farm where he lives: The Empire Farm is an organic farm owned by Sally and Adrian Morgan. The farm occupies 100 acres in the Blackmore Vale, near Wincanton in Somerset. Sally and Adrian raise organic…
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Two Obituaries for the Same Person…
Telegraph versus Independent – a character sketch versus a picture of a personality and his achievements. Its not quite like “two different people” but it makes you wonder who wrote the Telegraph one. (via Nobby.)
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What do you do with a phone that can’t be switched off?
http://theinquirer.net/?article=42235 Jay Levy says he has been stung by Apple’s iPhone pact with AT&T after he took an Iphone on a Mediterranean cruise. They didn’t use their phones, but when they got back they had a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless. The problem was that their three Iphones were racking up…
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Bean Sprouts in Paper
Bean Sprouts Interview Originally uploaded by alecmuffett We were shopping on Sunday night and ran across “delicious” magazine (damn, that’s hard to type without adding dots) – which I recognised because my friend Mel said her blog was written up in it this month. And so it is! Good article, too. So – next step…
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London is the most expensive place in the world to eat out
Eek! http://www.independent.co.uk/living/food_and_drink/news/article2953471.ece From nose-bleed mortgages to wallet-bashing lattes, Londoners are used to paying some of the highest prices on the planet for their basic needs. Now it seems they are being charged more than anyone else for a meal out while suffering some of the worst-rated food and service among the world’s leading cities. The…
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What Do Women Want? Less Pink, More Tech
The opening paragraphs of this article annoy me: Bring on the tech gear, but don’t make it girly: That’s what women want, according to a survey released today. Just 9 percent of the fair sex want products that “look feminine,” like a pink Playstation or Hello Kitty keyboards. The remaining 91 percent seek something sleek…
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Veyron sighting this evening…
This evening I was walking down The Kings Road en route to Sloane Square, and I saw a Bugatti Veyron. It sounded cool. That is all.
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Facebook suffering User Outages ?
I’ve been getting the attached facebook login screen for the past 14-ish hours: Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. Facebook is obviously “up” for most people, but I am wondering if this is just me or whether…