Dropsafe

The news this morning in the UK was abuzz with stories of police action related to people trying to buy red mercury for a terrorist weapon; this rang no bells with me, so I did a bit of Googling: [chemistry.about.com] The science newsgroups have been a-buzz with tales of a 2-kiloton yield Russian red mercury

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…from three days in Scotland at the factory, playing with new toys. Infiniband makes for a fun network fabric – it’s amusing to see ping roundtrips in the single-digit microsecond range… more later.

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you have no idea how long i’ve been meaning to look up this stuff: [infoshare1.princeton.edu]

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Hmmm… BMW R1200GS Desert Yellow – £9275 Grey Side Panels Black Seat ABS Wire-spoke Wheels – £235 Heated Hand Grips – £175 Alarm & Immobiliser – £118 Hand Guards – £35 (est) Large Crashbars – £210 (est) Extra-High Seat – TBD …so I am looking a little above the £10.2K mark. I suppose I could

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Do You Think To Much? [thejaywalker.com] — clipped from my colleague Andy Holt.

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I’ve not been blogging much of late; this has mostly – nah this has entirely – been due to pressure of work. It should improve over the next few days. Last week I was pulling double shifts, by day prepping-for and having meetings with my boss’s boss and extended team; by night fighting with Skype

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…are now considered safe financial risks. This is the only excuse I can think of for The Thomas Crown Affair (which started the rot) followed by The Italian Job and The Ladykillers and The Stepford Wives and The Manchurian Candidate now being joined by a remake of Alfie [trailer]. There’s Around The World In 80

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Linked from Jim at [found.pale.org] ; bizzzare thing is that it was only a few days ago, I was theorising loudly and boozily on a London streetcorner in whether there might be something like this possible with Windows, because there have been such in the OSS space for a long time… Notice especially the dig

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I had an interesting evening last night, experimenting with using Skype as a zero-cost voice-conferencing and instant-messaging tool. It was an interesting attempt – overall I give the experience 6 out of 10. Normally at this time of year I’d be spending a week in California at a conference, but this year I can’t fit

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Having been introduced to Tequila and Margaritas by a number of my colleagues I felt it was time to learn something about it. Best cheap way, as ever, is read-and-blog: [www.baguiocityonline.com] Brief History of Tequila and the Worm from Mexico Originally, the Aztecs took the heart of the blue agave plant, cooked it, and pressed

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[www.britishseapower.co.uk] PARAGRAPH OF THE MONTH Recently, the author Anthony Buckeridge passed away. Buckeridge was the man behind the Jennings series of novels, with their funny fun at boarding school. His death inspired Christoper Hawtree to compose the following paragraph in the Buckeridge obituary in The Independent: “No clodpoll, he produced supersonic, lobsterous work which, if

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I’ve mused upon the theory of tipping quite a lot, of late; I think I can see some of the logic in it: underpay your service staff this motivates them to work harder to justify tips motivated staff make for happy customers happy customers generate even more customers more customers make more revenue …but in

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