Dropsafe

I heard about this the first time round, but this marvelous quote escaped me: The officer asked for identification. The professor asked for his, after which Officer Leonpacher told him he was under arrest and, the professor claims, kicked his legs from under him, pinned him to the ground and confiscated his box of peppermints.…

(more…)

WordPress is pretty, but fragile, and occasionally the input editor corrupts what you type in unexpected ways…

(more…)

Presumably it’s still on the statute books.That the NVaLA are no longer anything like power in the land, is a great pleasure to me. On This Day: 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy The Gay News and its editor Denis Lemon have been found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for…

(more…)

Man held in chef-threat inquiry Police investigating threats against celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein from a Cornish nationalist group have arrested a man. […] A group calling itself The Cornish Liberation Army (CNLA) said in the e-mail Mr Oliver would be a target because he was “another incomer who has caused the inflation…

(more…)

Where can I get bulk dried catnip in the UK? You know, the easily misconstrued pack of herbage which you leave lying around, and which gets occasionally savaged by the felines? A friend has offered me a used cat-igloo, washed and dried, and my cats will need an incentive to try it out…

(more…)

Well I just wasted 30 minutes trying to intuit my way around ThinkingRock which claims to be one of the most popular “GTD” (Getting Things Done) applications available. It uses Java and NetBeans, so it ticks all the “worthiness” boxes. After that half-hour, my opinion? Forgive the rant, but: All I want is a fucking…

(more…)

…with Adriana was lovely; warm baguette with melting butter, caviar and hard-boiled egg for starters – accompanied by freezing-cold Grey Goose vodka, followed by smoked salmon — sprinkled with lemon juice and freshly ground pepper — with tarragon scrambled eggs. With more vodka and warm baguette. Everyone should try something like that for dinner once.…

(more…)

So I was using VNC to access my iMac at home, and the system was behaving very curiously – using IM to talk with a colleague, the stuff I was typing was spattered with lots of extra whitespace and some extra characters: lik           e          t h   i s       . …as if someone was holding down the space bar. Then I…

(more…)

So I’ve sold my first bike… [sniff, sniff] …to Charlie De Courcy from Sun. Am glad it’s going to someone who’s passionate about learning to ride.

(more…)

Valerie pinged me last night with this piece of marvelousness: Sometimes I have some challenging ideas, or crazy like some other people would say. This time I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he stay also the night out. When…

(more…)

Do you remember the days then TinyURLs were 4 characters long? I blame Twitter.

(more…)