Dropsafe

At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express

Off to see The Polyphonic Spree and Mull Historical Society next week, and am getting Cropredy sorted out early, this year. Trying not to mess it up like last year…

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well it’s been dull. at the drop of a hat, i wanted to travel to land’s end, the southwesterly corner of britain, and marvellously close to a selection of SIGINT locations to add to my collection. considered going down on saturday, but hadn’t planned this trip well enough to raise my confidence above threshold, so…

a rehash of the past two weeks… i got back from the usa in my traditional daze, and suffered getting-on for 10 days worth of return jet lag for a trivial investment of five days away. this is one reason why it is increasingly uneconomic for work to send me to the usa, because as…

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I flew out to the San Francisco Bay Area last sunday, just before the bank holiday, and only got back on saturday morning. It’s been a long week, very scheduled, generally enjoyable, but now I am back safe and suffering the effects of theraputic gardening. Recap of the week: Sunday: I flew out on this…

Argh. I ache. Tuesday was my bike’s 7500 mile service – undertaken at 8200 miles – so i went up to oxford, dropped off the bike, and got a taxi to a friend’s place. Spent the morning theraputically vegging on her sofa with a book (Benedict Allen, Into the Crocodile’s Nest) and then a quick…

It’s a little known fact that the inventor of Powerpoint attributes the inspiration for the tool to the mass of TeX that Whitfield Diffie uses for most of his presentations. I know this is true, because Whit told me so. 😎 In the spirit of presentation education my colleague Geoff shared the following with me:…

[www.microsoft-watch.com] Microsoft’s been hinting publicly and privately that it’s bullish on blogging. For any Rip Van Winkles out there who’ve slept through the blogging craze, Weblogs (a k a blogs) can be as simple as personal online diaries. But they can be more. A growing number of Microsoft bloggers are using Weblogs as a tool…

Friday night, I was looking forwards to a weekend of gardening and backpain, when the phone goes; it’s Whit Diffie, asking to stop by for a visit. Whit’s always interesting and good company, so I hastily swap the outdoors cleanup scheduled for this weekend, for the indoors cleanup that was scheduled for this weekend, and…