Dropsafe

See [www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk] for a compendious index, and also [www.aslan.demon.co.uk] wherein is this extract: I am glad to see that Armageddon is coming back into fashion. Nuclear holocausts were a tremendously important part of my childhood. I can’t imagine how we’ve managed without them for so long. What must it be like to grow up without

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Brilliant! For those of us who used to suffer When you hear the attack warning… – and really believed that the attack warning was going to sound like the Moog synthesiser chord that they played in the public information film… it put me off Depeche Mode for months… [www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk] Update: I did not create the

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links: [www.geocities.com] and ([www.conceptlabs.co.uk] or [downlode.org] ) and [www.cryptorights.org] and my favourite: [www.maths.uwa.edu.au] which complements the more serious but equally useful [www.infidels.org] and [www.infidels.org] which have stood me in good stead as references for publicly deconstructing managementspeak for many, many years.

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From my mate Gilles Gravier comes this minor amusement: [www.guimp.com] …try the “BreakOut” game. 😎

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This one ought to go in RISKS-DIGEST: [story.news.yahoo.com] WILMINGTON, Del. – A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding the bag. Jim Cara thought the “NOTAG” plate he got for his Suzuki motorcycle would give people a laugh. Instead, he found that the laugh – along with more than 200

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Picture (c) 2003 Paul Shearsmith / Andrew Grantham Website [www.ajg41.clara.co.uk] One of the things that I cherish most about living in the UK is the flipside of one of the aspects that I detest most about my job, or indeed about working as any sort of researcher or technical person – a boffin, a geek,

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if you are reading this, did you borrow my unabridged stranger in a strange land? it seems to have gone missing…

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i’ve installed a robots.txt file, due to the inordinate amount of indexing performed by no-name search engines for no apparently useful end. i will be watching the results with interest, but in the meantime do please let me know if this causes you, dear human reader, any problems.

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read neil’s bio at [www.fiddlersgreencon.org]

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Getting up, going outside, and seeing a Douglas DC-3 Dakota fly over Prepping the bike, and going out with Tony for a observed ride; getting out as far as Winchester Watching a F-117A Nighthawk fly over, as I rode the back roads around Basingstoke. Getting home, parking-up, only for an Avro Lancaster to fly over

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august 2003 – average 1957 hits per day july 2004 – average 5600 hits per day not quite trebling traffic in 1 year, but not far off…

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For people who are wondering what the time flies posting was all about, see the explanation at [html] Of course the follow up to that particular tale will investigate the question: Time flies do what, precisely, when you’re having fun?

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