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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…

The mood after my previous post turned more rebellious, and Iraqi citizens started attempting to pull down the statue of Saddam in the middle of the square opposite the Palestine Hotel. US Marines joined in the effort, finally pulling down the statue just before 3pm GMT. A ridiculous and obscene gesture by a US Marine…

I’ll let the pictures do the talking —

Scott Murray, Guardian Unlimited journo infamous for his bizarre sports coverage, has been tasked to give a blow-by-blow account of the Budget (when the Chancellor of the Exchequor announces the country’s budget for this financial year). When you read something that starts … “Good morning everyone. First, the apologies. I don’t know my PSBRs from…