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Happens interactively, too… 21:58:37 suzi:mine-tools # zlogin NEWZONE pkg install sunstudioexpress Download: sunstudioexpress … Done Download: SUNWj6dmo … Done Download: SUNWj6rt … Done Download: SUNWj6cfg … Done Download: SUNWhea … Done Download: SUNWsprot … Done Download: SUNWarc … Done Download: SUNWj6man … Done Download: SUNWj6dev … Done Download: SUNWj6dvx … Done Download: SUNWj6rtx … Done…

Found this today while chasing a Digg link to photographs of (empty) London on Christmas day – and I sympathise; I rather like the Lords – a bunch of people who don’t have to answer to the electorate but who (sometimes) care about the issues, can be a marvelous brake on “progress”. IanVisits Probably one…

tony hart dies, age 83 🙁 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7836112.stm # Fark needs this: http://tinyurl.com/7nnjam (via http://tinyurl.com/7tsucu) # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Yet another mafia-esque business model which needs to go away. BBC NEWS | Magazine | Sounding the wrong note? “Because the people who ran the business before us had a PRS licence we’ve been constantly pursued to buy one. It’s been going on for years now – letters and visits threatening court action.”

What’s happening at home today – remedial work to fix someone else’s appaling DIY from 10+ years ago. Quick plug here for John Bird – marvellous new builder in the Farnham area, just setting up on his own.

I was walking down Tottenham Court Road last saturday, near Goodge St Station, and ran across an Anonymous protest against the “Church” of Scientology on the opposite side of the road – the place where (back in the 80s) Whalemeat and I went, to mess with their heads by subjecting ourselves to “audit”. (The results…

bloody hell – enormous gust of wind just blew half a dozen tiles off my roof ridge, and took out my guttering on route. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

“What will you miss about newspapers?” – “Free Kitty Litter” http://tinyurl.com/7xpwkk # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Presumably this is what comes of changing your backdrop every minute using a shellscript, and not logging out for a couple of days. Do the GNOME people care?

This is the future of so many of my friends, but the stuff this guy listens to is distinctly *old* regardless of genre: tinyurl.com/97lec9 # A method for massively cutting UPDATE/HTTP-PUT methods in complex Rest APIs – http://tinyurl.com/7eytun # Out of context quote of the day: “I suspect my yeast has an eating disorder.” http://tinyurl.com/8rkrrr…

I was listening to the radio the other day – may have been the Today programme, I can’t remember – and there was a discussion regarding Florence Nightingale, brought about by some new biography or somesuch. I was only half-listening, but my attention was nailed when one of the speakers, presumably the one brought in…

The Mine! project » A method for massively cutting UPDATE/HTTP-PUT methods in complex Rest APIs – a simple thought which saved me a lot of CGI coding pain.