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Weekend Biking
Clipping from an e-mail I just sent. I’m mildly miffed, but these things happen, and I had a good ride getting to Wales. I did 150 miles on the A44 en-route to Rhyader on my DR-Z400S at the weekend. I broke down. As darkness fell. In the wet fog. On a mountainside. Not wanting to…
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geek amusement
<davew> Right, nearly time to shove off <davew> An amusing thought to leave you with <davew> The word “must” appears only once in ISO 17799, on page 33 <davew> In a section which is headed as something “which should be given careful consideration” <davew> With that, goodnight all 🙂
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one for all you ladies with insane mothers
http://www.somethingpositive.net/arch/sp11112003.gif
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Barrelling along…
So I was driving to work on the A30 today, doing a comfy 60mph on a stretch of dual-carriageway near my village, when I noticed a blockage in the road 1/2 mile ahead of me. A lorry had stopped and two or three cars behind it, hazard lights flashing. It was then I noticed the…
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photo unrealism
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html some of this stuff is just plain scarey, especially the photographs of people.
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redaction in the american media
I find the notion that the US Government might be leaning upon net-based media outlets to remove inconvenient material – or worse that the fourth and fifth estates are exhibiting self-censorship, pandering / caving-in utterly to the supposed prejudices of their readership – to be both darkly amusing, and frightening. At least hardcopy needs to…
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foggy olde england
Went with friends to the local town tonight to go see Matrix Revolutions; weather is definitely getting more wintery over here, closing in, but after parking I met up with Grim, Holly, Nobby, Steve, and eventually Jon and Violette at the Yellow River Cafe, a slightly upmarket a-la carte chinese restaurant on the Reading riverfront.…