-
attributed news quote
At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express
-
well, it’s been dull.
well it’s been dull. at the drop of a hat, i wanted to travel to land’s end, the southwesterly corner of britain, and marvellously close to a selection of SIGINT locations to add to my collection. considered going down on saturday, but hadn’t planned this trip well enough to raise my confidence above threshold, so…
-
fortnightly report
a rehash of the past two weeks… i got back from the usa in my traditional daze, and suffered getting-on for 10 days worth of return jet lag for a trivial investment of five days away. this is one reason why it is increasingly uneconomic for work to send me to the usa, because as…
-
Back. Backache. Ouch.
I flew out to the San Francisco Bay Area last sunday, just before the bank holiday, and only got back on saturday morning. It’s been a long week, very scheduled, generally enjoyable, but now I am back safe and suffering the effects of theraputic gardening. Recap of the week: Sunday: I flew out on this…
-
Bike Week.
Argh. I ache. Tuesday was my bike’s 7500 mile service – undertaken at 8200 miles – so i went up to oxford, dropped off the bike, and got a taxi to a friend’s place. Spent the morning theraputically vegging on her sofa with a book (Benedict Allen, Into the Crocodile’s Nest) and then a quick…
-
A Fine Example of Powerpoint Gone Wrong – The Gettysburgh Address
It’s a little known fact that the inventor of Powerpoint attributes the inspiration for the tool to the mass of TeX that Whitfield Diffie uses for most of his presentations. I know this is true, because Whit told me so. 😎 In the spirit of presentation education my colleague Geoff shared the following with me:…
-
Microsoft’s Got Blogging On the Brain
[www.microsoft-watch.com] Microsoft’s been hinting publicly and privately that it’s bullish on blogging. For any Rip Van Winkles out there who’ve slept through the blogging craze, Weblogs (a k a blogs) can be as simple as personal online diaries. But they can be more. A growing number of Microsoft bloggers are using Weblogs as a tool…