Posts by neuro

DNS At 20

" Twenty years ago, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. " For all the talk about vulnerabilities, low functionality, et cetera, I love that we have robust, proven and — to be frank — old protocols on the net. The biggest change to […]

A Latte - and a Rifle to Go

Excellent article from last Sunday's Observer — it always takes me about a week to rattle through the Observer :) — about the state of Iraq, and specifically Baghdad, in the aftermath of the Bush and Blair Show.

Union "Black"

An " enthusiastic fan of the UK's transformation into a multiracial society over the past 50 years " has taken it upon himself to start a campaign called reFLAG to rebrand the flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack. "Our" flag — I quote the word 'our' as the Union Jack isn't really the […]

Odds and Sods

Before I forget and slip into unconsciousness — The Matrix Reloaded — rawks more second time round The Animatrix DVD — rawks lots Electric Six, "Fire" — rawks; Metallica, "St. Anger" — I'll find out when amazon delivers it for me in the morning :) pics from the weegievolt , ta to genghis!

Movable Moan

" Moan, moan, moan , you're aaaalways complainin' ..." </ montypython > ergo, sorted: link to instead of the silly javascript popup for "make a comment / see comments on this post" links, and use <$MTCommentID pad="1"$> to capture, create and href permalinks for comments (see the MT docs for full usage info). Dinnae moan, […]

Movable Feast

Someone else had problems upgrading to Movable Type 2.64 . FWIW, I didn't — it upgraded sweet as a nut, as always :)

Sneaky Geeks

From Neil : Neuro ordered pizza with his credit card over the phone in a room full of geeks and gadgets. The expiry date is 06/03. [ ... ] Luckily I have four Switch cards along with a couple of Visa s and Amex s to choose from, no-one really heard the card number and […]

Coo, Fame

I decided to glance at the referrer logs this morning and found that BBC Scotland's Scotblog has listed me as a "tasty" weblog. I dunno about the blog itself being tasty, but the haggis † I had on Monday at McPhabb's with bri and genghis was — as always — pretty damn tasty :) † […]