Dropsafe

…in a crumbly old books sort of way; a list of occupations as seen by insurance brokers, and how much risk is associated with each. article: [secretplans.org] image directory: [secretplans.org] I have a small interest in something similar [www.dtc.umn.edu] [home.ca.inter.net] [homepage.usask.ca] so I may be predisposed to liking this sort of thing.

this is just too much weird fun; a bit like conway’s game of life meets a terry gilliam cartoon. http://www.lycettebros.com/automata/auto.htm

I saw my friend Chris [www.csamuel.org] and his wife Donna [www.donnawilliams.net] weekend before last; stopping Chez-Muffett for breakfast off the flight from Chicago, I served them a breakfast of grilled lamb chump steaks, bacon, mushrooms, and well… an enormous mixed-grill basically. Chris looks fantastic, having dropped 2 Stone / 12Kg and dumped a whole pile…

So, up in Preston I ran into Paul (otherwise known as Gun-Mad Paul, since there were many Pauls in Aberystwyth and therefore modifying local custom people became widely known by nicknames: Gun-Mad Paul, Strange-Behaving Dave, Blue-Haired Elaine, and so forth) – who aside from having an encyclopaedic knowledge of firearms is also a toxicologist, and…

what worm threat? [news.bbc.co.uk]

So: the DRZ and I did a brief round-trip of England this weekend, to attend the baptism of Alexandra Grace Palmer, the newly minted daughter of friends for whom I had the honour of serving as best man back in – what – 1999? Setting out on Saturday at 1030 I was already late for…

everything you non-brits need to know about clapham junction – [en.wikipedia.org] – and remember: the h is almost silent / unvoiced.

I went to Infosecurity 2004 last week, with my colleagues, Gilles Gravier and Tim Graves – basically to see what’s what in the wider world of security. Tim and I’d barely set foot inside the door before being accosted by a lady from Microsoft, asking us whether we would find the bundling of a firewall-by-default…

for anyone wondering what the previously-cited bird is, in the picture at [www.crypticide.com] – it is a Nuthatch, a tree-dwelling, woodpecker-like, native British bird, although not a true woodpecker. It has unusual and heavily-clawed feet, permitting it to climb both vertically up and down tree trunks, in search of food, bugs, etc. Update: Nice link:…

I am so used to going to [www.amazon.com] and typing the name of an author into the search box, and getting a list of publications with a best-fit match for the name, that I verge upon being offended by the fact that I just tried that with Darryl Huff Lie Statistics – yielding 263 results.…

I have my own views regarding the UK’s fad towards Identity Cards – which I will post at a later date – plus I am an Economist print subscriber, because I consider it to be essential bathroom material for a sunday morning soak. But: for those of you who are not, by seraching for Barrington…

A website that I find amusing and informative, and which reinforces my slightly archaic way with grammar: [www.ceafinney.com] What ? Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines subjunctive as: adj. 2. in grammar, designating or of that mood of a verb used to express condition, hypothesis, contingency, possibility, etc., rather than to state an actual fact:…