Dropsafe

So I am working on planning my next bike vacation, as regular readers will know. I want to have a big European map, and draw movable arrows onto it, which I can revisit, tweak, and move, whilst seeing the map unchanged underneath. I also want to “stack” arrows so that I can sorta animate/walk through…

My beloved colleague Chris Gerhard, excusing his inability to spell my name correctly, writes: [blogs.sun.com] Alec Muffet has just told us what he likes about his bike. Now I have two comments about this. First what I really like about my bike (any one of them) is that that they are silent. All except the…

When I was young – perhaps 9 or 10, in the mid 1970s, on family vacation in Canada – I distinctly remember my Dad telling me a story, I believe he said from WW1, where a message had to be passed rapidly from the front, back to London, over phone lines that were certainly tapped…

Well, this raises some interesting possibilities: [gigaom.com] Six Apart to buy Live Journal EXCLUSIVE: Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is…

The phenomenon of “ye-gods-you-mean-you’re-actually-allowed-to-do-that?” strikes once more, when – following the leads of “Company-Confidential“, “Proprietary-Information“, “Internal-Use-Only“, “Top-Secret“, and “UK-Eyes-Only” – someone twigs that you can use Google to search for open-access webcams Note the way I phrase that – “open access” does not necessarily equare with “unsecured”, although that may be the case. As ever,…

Tipped off by today’s CIDOMLB cartoon I went and checked-out http://answersingenesis.org/museum/: [answersingenesis.org] We’re not talking about so-called reality TV,’ which places real people in unrealistic situations and throws in a bizarre twist at the end. At the Creation Museum special effects theater, you’ll see true stories from the Bible, not embellished with unrealistic subplots. And…

Yes, yes, I know the colours are a fright, but I am working on the blog in my spare time, seeking to improve rendering speed and readability, and I am using the new colours to try and spot issues, and to help me unify my CSS and make the whole blog’s look more switchable/tweakable. On…

I am surprised this guy didn’t get booked for being a potential terrorist: [www.flickr.com]

If this article is correct: [www.microsoft-watch.com] Microsoft’s anti-virus/anti-spyware strategy is taking shape. Sources say Redmond’s prepping a fee-based bundle, which could go beta soon. …am I the only person who thinks that this would be potential corporate marketing suicide, in the vein of some hypothetical product marketers who might be saying: Nah mate, nuts to…

I just got asked by a colleague on AIM: Gilles: Question for you. What language would you suggest for somebody who wants to “learn to program”… something easy, yet with good concepts… …and the attached is my response and justification. I’d be interested in what other people have used to teach modern newbies the essentials…

it’s not that i’m an overgrown schoolboy or something, but sometimes i wonder whether the nicest thing about my bike isn’t how that at low-revs it sounds like a WW1 fighter plane, but at high-revs it sounds like a fighter jet…

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