Dropsafe

I think Behr has got it about right, and from the smell on the wind last week: A Home Office spokesperson said the government was examining the report and would respond shortly. “We are firm believers in the internet. It is a huge force for good. But it relies on the confidence of millions of…

From IM: Alec: Luc is “on holiday till August 20.” Brad: Cool. So is half of Europe. Alec: Given the size of the G&T I just had, so am I Brad: 🙂 Brad: G&T: The ultimate British example of making a virtue of necessity. Brad: Anti-scurvy, anti-malaria, and anti-depressant all in one tasty package.

I don’t know which is worse – creationism, or bowdlerising Attenborough[1]: BadAstronomy Blog Hooray! Creationist evilness is not just brainwashing children in the US, it’s in the Netherlands too! Oh wait. That sucks. Sorry, Nederlanders. […] David Attenborough is responsible for some of the best nature documentaries of all time. EO bought the rights to…

Blaze is one of the top minds in the field, and I am deeply grateful for him having come out with Security Problem Excuse Bingo ; it will provide so much comfort and entertainment in the future… (via Charlie from Colorado)

From CNN Anything made by McDonald’s tastes better, preschoolers said in a study that powerfully demonstrates how advertising can trick the taste buds of young children. Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids when they were wrapped in the familiar packaging of the Golden Arches. The study had youngsters sample identical…

For all fans of Charlotte – I am aware of several amongst my colleagues – Steve Elliott mentioned this last night, at a BBQ over at his house: On Broadcasting House this week we wanted to pay homage to al-Jazeera’s new English-language network. As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery we thought it would…

Arthroscopy done, sodding enormous screws out (alas not allowed to keep them, approximately M8-size 75mm hollow bronze screws with ball-head hex insert) – small loose fragment of bone-encased-in-cartilage was removed, probably was the cause of the clicking. Painkillers wearing off, knee feels like it’s been whapped with a cricket bat, but spinal anaesthetic was much…

An 0630 alarm clock — and today I’ve reconfigured my home network, rebuilt my old G4 iMac, made bread, disassembled a pile of stuff to sell on Ebay, finished porting a blog from Typepad (vile) to WordPress (less vile) , encrypted a 200Gb volume, done a load of laundry, mowed the lawn, weedkilled a border,…

Hilarious – even, I suspect, for my God-Squaddy friends… 10 things I hate about Commandments via Charlie from Colorado.

Via Joerg came this link to Adam Leventhal, regarding Sun’s Open-Sourced “DTrace” software, and Linux, and what happens when some in the Linux community runs headlong into some desirable technology which is not apparently “ritually clean” enough for them to adopt: Last week at OSCON someone set up a whiteboard with the heading “Tools We…

So I was chatting with a friend about a little electronics project I have in mind, and (after a fairly dense overview of what I have in mind) he asks for a picture [1] showing how things would fit together… I could make the sketch on a piece of paper and then go hunt for…