Got tired enough of the illogical BBC practice of allowing BBCi URLs to be given out on the air sans 'www' at the start — despite this practice being absolutely verboten when URLs are printed on screen — to complain to them. Why? Because watch what happens when you try these URLs: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 — oh […]
saturday > figuring out how to install debian woody over network using pxe netboot / tftp > successfully installed > grab old write-to-serial-lcd perl script to do cool stuff on newly built deb box > remember how to do rc.local equivalent in debian > pack > drive to town > drive past town to PC […]
Today's fun find — OK, today for me, as the rest of the blogosphere found out about this on Thursday — is Google 's new calculator feature . Ask it anything. To start you off, Jason Kottke and Andrew Baio have some cool and vaguely practical uses, such as imaginary numbers , how much space […]
It looks like Microsoft have been rejiggling some of their web infrastructure — presumably preparations for defence against tomorrow's scheduled attack from the Blaster worm — utilising Akamai web caching services a bit more than usual. This has led to a seemingly huge volte face for Microsoft ... IIS running on Linux? ... Netcraft are […]
He 's done it again , except this time, John looks like a reject from a Gary Oldman movie. "How many grannies have you mugged today?" :>
I nipped out to Burger King for a late night munch, and for some reason the guy at the drive through didn't ask me for any money. There was I, brandishing a twenty quid note, and not once did he utter the words "gimme the cash", or some BK variant ... When he handed me […]
Cracking joke, courtesy of elwell . Tis a bit rude, so witness the first use of MT 's 'extended entry' feature. The Inland Revenue send their auditor to a synagogue. The auditor is doing all the checks and then turns to the Rabbi," and says, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles." "Yes," […]
Looks like the world's going to hell in a hot basket. No let-up in Europe heatwave Britain sweats on heat record Chaos caused by summer sun Nuclear power plant has to be cooled with water spray Europe blisters under heatwave [google aggregation] Is the planet plunging into the sun or something?
Fellow evolt er Garrett snapped some photies for me of the humungous shopping trolley used at the start of the Jackass movie . It's bloody huge! Reminds me of the clips from Apollo 16's 3rd EVA to House Rock where the astronauts went from their lunar rover to a huge rock , and scale being […]