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observation
the opening bars of neil hannon / the divine comedy’s the happy goth are the same as those of all about eve’s december, off the scarlet &… album. coincidence? i think not.
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The RSS Backlash Begins?
Hmmmmm… Your Headline Reader Has Been Banned Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information, and if you email us, include your IPID MD5: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. …except that I am not, I don’t think; I suspect
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NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT
[www.tombihn.com] … The inside label carries instructions on washing and caring for the bags. Because the bags are sold in Canada, the instructions are also printed in French. The French version, however, contains an additional phrase: “NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N’AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI.” Translated to English, the
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Crypticide I: Thirteen Years of Crack
Thirteen years ago, on 15th June 1991, I posted v2.7a of Crack to the newsgroup alt.sources [groups.google.com] – I messed-up the posting process a bit, since these were the days when people cared about netiquette, the Web was multicast and named USENET, and also this was perhaps the first time I was releasing software to
Fediverse reactions
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voldemort invades your keyboard
[story.news.yahoo.com]
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24x7x52.17746
ok, so, accoring to dave walker i am not the only person who has a personal gripe about the marketing cliche, 24x7x365 dave prefers plain 24×7 (ditto) – or 24×365 (which is a little implausible to my tastes) i’d prefer 24x7x52 which is at least a calendar year (modulo leap years, which would make it
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boom! rumble! roar! whoosh!
Farnborough Air Show [farnborough.janes.com] [www.farnborough.com] is upon us once more, and the window by my office desk is populated by dogfighting aircraft and demonstrations of technique that scare the pants off you…
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Solution: MI5 urges radical security moves
Apparently it’s too dangerous for politicians to remain in parliament without Big Ben being exploded to fall on top of them. Apparently (irony abounds) the current concrete defenses could act as “dangerous missiles” if they get blown up. No shit, Sherlock? The expensive solution: put up steel barriers that will destroy the look of the
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“This is a federal badge, for federal people…”
So this photography student in Seattle is out taking pictures of local landmarks, when… The police officer had failed to rebut my arguments, but he was definitely being a lot nicer now (which was quite welcome). He’d been explaining how the SPD are required to investigate all calls, which I said I understood, but I
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Apparently GWB is not above giving people the finger.
Read [www.livejournal.com] – I can’t decide whether I consider this a point in his favour, or not. On the whole I suspect that I do consider it a point in his favour, but my estimation of him as a man is so low that standing on top of any sort of ladder will not suffice
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the shopping report
expensive day: eyetest done (fix the left axial misplacement on my left lens, glaucoma and retina check, grill the optomotrist, the works) and new glasses (polycarb rimless) and sunglasses (bikeproof black rims with rayban-green lenses) on order, six new business/casual shirts, new vests, four new belts, two pairs cufflinks, other oddments, some basic groceries, and