Dropsafe

The cats are blissed out. As a consequence of some simple mathematics (surface area of a sphere increases as the square of the radius, volume increases as the cube) I tend to leave switching-on my house’s central-heating until later in the year than do normal people. When the radiators do come on, my cats suddenly

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Links to non-obvious, real blogs, taken from my referrer lists this week: http://blogs.sun.com/andreas http://blogs.sun.com/bmc http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva http://blogs.sun.com/davelevy http://blogs.sun.com/martin http://blogs.sun.com/raja http://blogs.sun.com/sommerfeld http://quark.humbug.org.au/blog/index.cgi/geek/apple/ http://www.csamuel.org/ http://www.emergentchaos.com/ http://www.geoffarnold.com/ http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/links-g.html – including this thoughtful gem from Chandan, which puts flesh on an old joke. [blogs.sun.com] I am contemplating on about 100 lines of perl script that I just wrote and now

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A couple of weekends ago I arose with the birdsong (coming from the direction of my semi-detatched neighbour’s residence) and – lacking any other plans for the day – I crawled downstairs to attack the coffee grinder. The fun started at 0710h when, whilst shuffling the items on the kitchen table in search of a

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I prodded the LJ staff about the recent security incident and received the following response to my suggestion that they warn the user: We understand your concern in this matter. However, we generally do not contact users to inform them of a possible threat to their account security. There are several safeguards in place to

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My brother-in-law Frank – the retired professor who lives in Pittsburgh PA – with my sister visited the UK a few months ago, and was quite taken, nay surprised with my Skoda Octavia with the VAG Group 1.9 ltr turbodiesel engine. From what I gather, Diesel has not taken-off as a car fuel in the

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…is a man of insight: [blogs.sun.com] At a meeting the other day one of the participants stated, that “I thrive on pressure.” My view was that they’d obviously never met anyone any good at applying it.

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Sarah Katz pinged me on AIM this morning, to say that having read my posting about Long Way Round she’d found it being aired in the USA – beeped for swearing, of course – and rather liked it. This reminded me that Glenn at work had said Ewan was reading the book on Radio4; this

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I have no idea how long these will last, but some US-based colleagues have asked about the programme: [www.acutor.be] You’ll miss the bizzare music and the trippy 50s-movie imagery, but it’s better than nothing.

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The European Union, Japan and Australia plot to undermine the Bush presidency (and American Business) through seeking reduction in carbon dioxide emissions specified by the Kyoto accord. Moreover all academic research outside the USA is coersced to participate towards this goal by all non-US Governments. Plus, incidentally, the USA is the only source of “independent”

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I had a nice long AIM chat with my friend Chris last night; Chris has spent a few years working in academic computing grid and cluster research, and with my new grid-focused commercial role we’ve been swapping notes about our respetive jobs, and the respective cultures thereof. Last night’s chat turned-out more different than I’d

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Oh my… Through the nature of my hobby/research I tend to a lot of these things but this one is quite egregious, and my first blog-based one: [www.crypticide.com] I don’t know if you could help me or not and I’m very sorry if I bother you by asking you to do this favor for me…

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Grim and Holly got married. Some people said “at last”, and they have a slight point – some expected this sooner, others thought it moot – but none of this detracted from the depth of the celebration. The ceremony was at Matfen Hall in Northumberland on Sunday afternoon, at a ceremony to which I had

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