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UK Release Dates That Make Me Go "Auuuuugh!"

Some UK cinema release dates that drive me potty — The Matrix Reloaded — not out until 21st May 2003 Bruce Almighty — not out until 27th June 2003 Charlies Angels: Full Throttle — not out until 4th July 2003 Finding Nemo — not out until 3rd October 2003 The Italian Job — not out […]

Slashdot: "NASA Probe Launched!" ... Erm, Seven Years Ago

Further proof that the once-mighty slashdot.org is becoming, um, how do I say this tactfully — poo? CowboyNeal let through a story submission entitled “NASA Sending Probe to Saturn”, which discusses the joint NASA/ESA/ISA (Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, and specifically Titan. It all sounds great, but the problem is that Cassini-Huygens was […]

"I Hate Snakes, Chuck, I Hate 'Em!"

It looks like one of my long-running wishes is to come true in November 2003 — the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released on DVD! (local mirror copy, as IME Yahoo! stories tend to disappear and change URLs at random) Downsides Have to repurchase movies I already own No commentary tracks Upsides It’s Indy on […]

"It's Easy To Lose Track of the News ..."

A regular feature on the BBC News website, 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week — hat tip to Meg.

'Allo John, Gotta New SODIMM?

Well, I put a couple of SODIMM laptop memory modules up on eBay, but only one of them sold — the other is a PC133 192MB SODIMM, with no reserve and a reasonable £25 ‘buy it now’ price. If you’re interested, or know someone who’s interested, feel free to check it out.

The Red Pill, Or The Blue Pill?

In three weeks, The Matrix will have us again, which is unfortunately a week later than anyone at Cannes, or in the United States — and for that matter, in Canada, France, Holland, Taiwan, Australlia, Iceland, etc. too. I’m looking forward to this film so much, but I just know that someone on a mailing […]

Lach Test

This isn’t the blog entry you’re looking for, move along </jedimindtrick> ‡

Neuro Does The SpamAssassin Is Working Again Happy Dance

Finally got SpamAssassin working again last night after I upgraded my mail server from debian woody to sarge, and the default behaviour of SpamAssassin changed from write messages back to a mail spool after processing to writing messages out to STDOUT afterwards, not the way I wanted it to work. After finding this excellent tutorial […]

802.11 Is The New GSM

London takes an impressive first step towards a world of pervasive urban wifi networking: London’s Soho to get blanket 802.11 cover for voice, data, from el reg. Hat tip to paul.

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