Dropsafe

here’s a thought – will the rise of a (significant proportion of a) generation of children with exposeure to home breadmakers cause the following generation to (mostly) do away with prefabricated, sliced bread? if so, will things become measured as being the best thing since we got rid of sliced bread?

things that have happened this weekend: suzi’s not come back, nor been found, nor is there any sign of finding her; i suspect that barring a miracle, i shaln’t be seeing her again. i have no idea what happened to her, but being a security person i can imagine more, stupid and gross explanations for…

still no sign of my cat, suzi. i don’t know which is worse – the not knowing what has happened, or the artificial expectation and dashing of hope every time i get home and open the door to not find her home. the local vet has not had any car-accident victims, and apparently if she’s…

it’s approaching feburary, and now is the time to start prepping the garden for all the things i want to do to it; first up is the raised bedding that i want to build, to absorb some excess soil that is in my garden, and so that i can plant-out herbs and salad vegetables in…

I once had to tell a disbelieving American that the UK National Power Grid is forced to schedule power supplies around/into TV commercial breaks because of the number of electrical kettles which are switched on to make tea; I can’t remember who that was, but here’s proof… [news.bbc.co.uk]

[www.eweek.com] December 5, 2002 Sun Grills Microsoft on Interoperability By Darryl K. Taft … In an exchange during the testimony of James Allchin, a Microsoft senior executive, in the landmark government antitrust case against Microsoft, this issue first arose. In that proceeding ‘foo’ was described as the codename at Microsoft for the WS-I, which documents…

I’m back from Amsterdam and a visit to a Customer. I’m glad to be back – I still feel slightly knackered by the whole experience – but it was both fun and educational. The Dutch are a refreshingly, if slightly scarily, blunt nation. After a 90minute flight delay at Heathrow, myself, Casper Joep and Dennis…

[home.earthlink.net] …which is prettymuch what my next one will look like.

What is wrong with me, that I do not own an MP3 player, let alone want an Apple iPod? Is this wrong? alec, trying desparately to think-up something angsty to keep up with my friends and colleagues.

glug – ah! a very welcome pint of black sheep brewery’s golden sheep pale ale accompanies me as i write this entry. it’s been a long week, and today has been the culmination of the week. my dad turned up on monday for an extended visit over christmas. i picked him up from a midway…

you are using gnome the application which switches between virtual desktops, dies you quit and restart, but don’t get it back, because some bonehead decided that saving the state of your desktop on exit and resetting it to precisely that on next login, is a really cool idea.

this is all so very carole smiley. for the first time in – what, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 – nearly four years, one of my rooms looks approximately the way that I envisioned it looking when I bought the house. we’re not quite there yet, but the curtains (with extra blackout liners) are up, the…