Dropsafe

I parked-up the bike, dismounted, and sauntered under the eaves of the large marquee, and into the middle of the tent. “It’s a funny thing,” I started, “– you ride a Suzuki into the middle of a campsite full of BMW owners, and they look at you like you’re some sort of space alien…“. The

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I keep a small number of metrics – touchstones – that help me keep track of my progress through the year. Amongst the impending-post-summer ones, are: Outbreak of crops of small funghi in the surrounding woodland and in my garden – last two weeks. Staying up late enough to see Aldebaran rising, and the Pleiades

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[www.csamuel.org] Oops, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has pulled up Microsoft over an advert that tried to claim that Windows cost less to run than Linux. Unfortunately the advertisers only managed to achieve this claim by including the cost of the hardware into their "study" and putting Linux on a massive IBM Z900 mainframe (which

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Well, the LiveJournal users might get mildly discomforted by my occasional use of this, but hopefully my site has been delisted from all the differing this is an evil hacker site databases by now, thus I am instituting a RSS form of the LJ-CUT tag, internal to blosxom. FOO Like this. See? Hopefully it will

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today i received: Hi Alec, How’s things? I’ve started a blog, and comment today on your patch comments on crypticide. [emergentchaos.homeport.org] (It’s not clear to me if trackbacks would tell you about this.) …to which I can only respond: trackbacks, maybe not, because I loathe their complexity and thus do not support them — but

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I would like to wholeheartedly affirm that music-sharing increases the amount of music that you actually buy. I am comfortably certain that I am not the only person whose CD-purchasing has skyrocketed since browsing other peoples’ playlists on iTunes – otherwise I would probably never have even heard of some of the bands whose work

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…and it’s 60% full already. A side effect of having 300+ CDs, I suppose. 😎

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Here’s amusement – a Wintel-using colleague just mailed out the following: I mentioned to this to a few people earlier last week. Do NOT feel obliged to install the recently released Win dows XP Service Pack 2 (for Home Edition only, Professional Edition released on the 25th August). The BBC have this article on their

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My colleague Simon Phipps writes: [www.webmink.net] The Reg relays an AP report on how Senator Ted Kennedy was prevented from flying by the unaccountable and uncorrectable No Fly List that’s operated over in the US. I can’t decide what the worst aspect of this is: that a famous US senator should be banned, that it

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I’ll start: Mill Hill East.

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This is fabulous: [www.crummy.com] OK, this one takes some explaining. Almost 10 years ago Newt Gingrich wrote an article for his PAC that contained big lists of positive and negative buzzwords for use in political discussion. The point, as is usually the case in politics, was to put attitudes directly into people’s heads by piggybacking

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[www.lingula.org.uk] [www.livejournal.com] [found.pale.org] [found.pale.org] more links in updates, as conditions warrant. Update: Jim’s put a pile of good piccies at http://www.pale.org/photos/Cropredy2004/ – and in one of his captions asks why it is that I tend to look straight into the camera when people are taking photos of me. Answer: I learned from personal observation that

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