alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • it required a wheelbarrow…

    it required a wheelbarrow to retreive all the beer from my car. roy and i went to calais, france yesterday, as a day trip via the channel tunnel; up at 0400h, out the house at 0510h, arrive roys at 0545h, leave roys at 0555h, arrive folkestone 0755h, drive aboard 0815h and half an hour of…

  • eigenradio

    culled from a mate’s blog at [found.pale.org] [eigenradio.media.mit.edu] All those stations, playing all that music, all the time! There’s at least 40 different songs being played every week on most radio stations! Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? That’s why we’ve set up banks of computers to do the…

  • Pay Peanuts, and …

    [www.newtechusa.com] – from Rob

  • a totally non-work-safe comic strip…

    …one episode of which for some reason i find so very redolent of LJ. http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/195.html beware content.

  • planes, cars and shipping forecasts

    I meant to write up a pile of stuff last week, but have failed to do so, and thus will try and get it all down, now. As I compose this, today is (still) Thursday. This day last week, I switched off the ADSL (gods! only had it one day and am switching it off!)…

  • Coupling USA

    The NBC Version of “Coupling” has a promo at http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Primetime_Preview/comedy/Coupling.shtml – if anyone can mail me the terminal URL for the RealMedia or WinMP 300k video clip, I’d e greatly obliges as the webredirector does not seem to like my Mac… Rumour has it, {Je,Geo}ff’s not so scarey… 8-(

  • 24×7 personal internet, first time since 1986

    OK, so I have been hacking on the net in various forms since 1986 – for those who can’t do math that’s longer than some of you have been alive, some 17+ years. And, tonight for the first time, I have Internet at home like the billions of Johnnie-come-latelies that the rest of you are.…

  • spot the muffett

    [www.westcoastsurf.co.uk]

  • man flies sony clie (palmpilot) with video on RC-aircraft

    [rcgallery.net]

  • i’ve caved in…

    …and finally started using a spreadsheet. analysis: it’s faster to prototype in than my previous solution (“awk”) – but not siginificantly more powerful in the space which I use it.

  • fortnightly update

    today has been an exercise in spam reduction – it’s been quiet because the entire united states is on vacation this week, so i decided to write a spam-pattern-matcher and wire it into procmail to do more intelligent filtering of my inbox. that occupied a merry two hours. now what? weekend before last was the…

  • TES does OFSTED report on Hogwarts

    [www.tes.co.uk]