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roundup
Last week was weird. Especially Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The UK has been sweltering for the past few days, with humidity so high that I can only compare it to Florida, and temperatures up to 40C/104F in the direct sunlight fronting my house. There is so much water in the air that the streetlights…
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and another…
Alec Muffett: Aberite 13 – a trip to Borth goes horribly wrong. Alec Muffett: “Machynlleth, we have a problem.” Nick Palmer: “I’m reading a main bus B undervolt in Sprinter car 2…”
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ad-hoc chatting with nick palmer
Whilst messing around with book/film titles… Alec Muffett: The Aberite Candidate Nick Palmer: Wherein Meibion Glyndwr brainwash an English student into assassinating the Sec of State for Wales? Excellent plan!
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dinner
take a 6″/7″ wide, reasonably deep, non-stick frying pan add a generous 1tbsp of italian triple-cream butter melt butter on the lowest gas setting possibly. sustain this temperature. in a bowl, beat 1/3rd cup milk, 2 fresh large eggs, and a handful of dried girolles/chanterelles, and a pinch of freshground pepper add to the butter…
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“cyberpunk muds: postmodern or what …?”
My colleague Dave Levy‘s introductory article – outlining the Labour Economics of various multiplayer games on the net – has got to be one of the bizzarely personally resonant things I have read in a long time. As I have an extensive historical interest in this topic combined with what I do and whom I…
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Dual Universes
The idea itself was fairly simple. Create a per-process “switch” in memory that would be set to either BSD or AT&T. The behavior of various system calls might depend on the value of the switch. Furthermore, certain special directories could be set up so that the directory you’d actually see would depend on the switch…
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Cropredy Folk Festival
Who, reading this, will be attending the 2004 (and probably final) Cropredy Folk Festival?
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It finally happened: “Team America”
Absolutely pukka, honest-to-God truth: on more than one occasion in my disreputable past, usually over a considerable amount of alcohol, I and my friends have sometimes speculated what Thunderbirds would have been like, had it been made by Americans. By “Thunderbirds”, we didn’t mean the current, much-hyped movie; instead we meant the original, Gerry Anderson…
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round-the-world biking
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman have completed their 20,000 mile oddesy from London to New York on BMW R1150GS bikes [news.bbc.co.uk] [news.yahoo.com] [story.news.yahoo.com] – and a book and documentary will be forthcoming this autumn. I think it’s great. I don’t think it’s stupendous, but I think it’ll provide some great, positive media coverage of biking.…
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biking with a sense of porpoise
A quick weekend review – feeling the need to blow some fresh air through my mind, I kitted-up the bike and set off for Aberystwyth on Saturday morning; the round trip is some 400 miles, and provided a marvellous opportunity to shake-down the DRZ after it’s recent 4000-at-6000 mile service. Route? For those who know…
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this is the best picture of casper that i’ve ever seen. 😎
…and i’ve seen a few, i can tell you; alas I will not be at USENIX Security this year, but Casper will be (to the best of my knowledge) so make sure to say hi to him. He also has groupies. [www.sun.com]