If anyone’s interested, I messed up trying to upgrade the memory on the Vaio, and I now have two spare PC133 144-pin SODIMMs up for auction on eBay: they are a 192MB SODIMM and 256MB SODIMM [update: the 256MB one sold on the 28th] — both gave the Vaio palpitations. Feel free to bid – […]
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Inhabitants of fark successfully infiltrate the soft underbelly of cnn.com, and find some test obits for people who hadn’t died yet. The BBC did the same thing a couple of years ago and swiftly pulled the blatantly not-for-production pages, and CNN did the same thing here, pulling the pages about 20 minutes after the first […]
Further proof positive that the coolest shit comes from Japan — plush Star Wars toys. The cute wee fella on the right is also joined by a plush Yoda and plush Wicket (the Ewok who Princess Leia seems to enjoy feeding and generally fiddling with in Jedi). These things are over a foot tall, and […]
After finding out I couldn’t login to my Movable Type admin interface to add stuff to this blog, then reading this and this, then downloading this from here, then unpacking the tarball into a new subdirectory, cd‘ing into the dist subdirectory (in my case, /tmp/db-4.1.25/dist), then make and then cd‘ing to my Movable Type database […]
A few late decisions at the tail end of last week saw me spending Saturday and Sunday all over the shop, but in a good way 🙂 Saturday 12th As usual for us, the decision to go on a “picnic” (I use the term loosely) was made on Thursday, with the actual location decided somewhere […]
From Saturday’s Grauniad: The much-mocked gold taps in Saddam’s palaces were not fitted by Iraqis but a plumber from Wakefield. Brian Greenwood, 71, installed most of them in the late 1980s. When Saddam spoke to him, it was to compliment him in Arabic: “That’s good, my friend.”
From BBC News, “Concorde grounded for good“. *blub* Air France and BA are going to simultaneously withdraw their Concorde fleets, probably in October after the summer season. The planes will go through a set of special events and then go off to museums. Definitely the end of an era of flight, and what a shame […]
Meg Hourihan, one of the founders of Pyra (responsible for Blogger), has always had not wholly pleasant feelings for her experience at Pyra after everything went pseudo-titsup.com, but how tremendous to hear her realise that with the way Blogspot and Blogger are being used during the war to allow even more freedoms of speech, what […]