[00:13] * markmm has had a daughter [00:13] <pickle> markmm: congrats! [00:14] <pickle> markmm: you can have a drink now! [00:14] <drochaid> whose daughter did he have? [00:14] <drochaid> oh I see, right [00:14] <drochaid> congrats markmm [00:15] <Elwell> mother n sprog all OK? [00:15] <markmm> 4:20am friday, so ive had a couple of beers […]
From CNN Money : Hardee's rolls out its new "Monster Thickburger," which contains two 1/3-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun. Holy Fattening Obesotron, Batman! This sucker gives you 107g of fat (46g of which saturated), 230mg of cholesterol and 2,650mg […]
As I tend to be doing most weekends, I watched a few movies with some mates on Saturday night. Super Size Me (which UK trailers seemed to be announcing as "I, the Super Sized One", as opposed to the actual title which says "Yes, please make my order Super Sized") didn't impress that much. I […]
El Reg reports: "The latest [local loop unbundling (LLU)] cuts - on top of the reductions announced in May - should make it far more easier for rival telcos to install their kit in BT exchanges and provide services direct to punters." That's great news, especially since I work for an ISP who is investing […]
For the last decade or so, I've gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I'd misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever […]
The Grauniad : [S]ince 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to "penetrate into or circulate within" the rest of [ Les Catacombes ] There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular […]
Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I'm no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison , formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just […]
Macbeth , Act V, Scene III : "It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." DaimlerChrysler Corporation's Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Disposition : "At bottom, SCO's arguments, though full of sound and fury, serve only to demonstrate that summary disposition should […]
BBC News: Extent of child net porn revealed — BT proactively block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation assessed as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act, presumably blocking such sites at the IP level, as they don't use transparent proxies any more . However, an interesting comment in the article is: […]