I have a problem. It is exactly the same as the problem in this forum post, namely (*entering blind cut and paste mode*) i have a rather large itunes collection that i keep on a network drive. however, as well as my ipod, i would like to have a ‘local’ database library on my laptop. [...]
I have a quiet affection of saurkraunt. I’m not sure why. The jars of it you buy are, generally, vile, which is a real shame. The best stuff I had was un Austria, and it went perfectly with the tarragon hinted mstard and meaty sausages I and my then girlfriend ate standing in the freezing [...]
I really like the attidude of this post “Four Realizations about Hiring“. It ties in really nicely with Joel on Softwares book about hiring techical staff. Hire people with skills, not people with CVs. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + [...]
Interoperability is something most PC users just don’t think about, ever, but as the popularity of mobile devices and other bits and pieces, I think people will start to notice that emailing Microsoft Word documents as a default doesn’t work. There are lots of more interoperable things out there. I like plain text, I send [...]
i really really like the idea of audio books. I spend all day looking at screens, and my eyes get sore. I also love reading, and hammer though a book a week and then some. To be able to go to bed with my comically huge 1970′s headphones and listen to a book from my [...]
I can’t beleive I didn’t think of this before. Westwood Drinking. Genius. All thats missing are calls for “drop the bomb!”, “the big dog”, “back to the street”. (editted because I’ve obviously offended somebody, which was never my intention, for once). Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a [...]
Imagine my delight, when somebody who’s blog I hold in the highest regard has the following to say about Vista being rubbish (and a little more elequently that I or my commenters have). “I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using [...]
I’m reading a really interesting article from changeThis and the following paragraph struck a note. “Ever wonder why some solutions lack inspiration, imagination, and originality? It’s because we don’t think as deeply or as broadly as we must to solve the problem. We tell ourselves the optimal solution is a luxury. We throw some resources [...]
I love the writing style of Allegra McEvedy. As it’s not obvious, click on the permalink to read each full article. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Jerking it
yes, xkcd is too accurate today. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum
(shameless plee) Please please please can you do something random to help somebody you (probably) don’t know. Go to http://www.godosomethingnew.co.uk/?a=vote&save=1&uid=1580&eid=2 and vote for my old friend Heidi. She’s currently winning, but a very orange coloured lady is creaping up the leader board. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find [...]
As pointed out very recently, I’m having some problems with my Buffalo LinkStation Live. I’ve just re-emailed my details to them and rang up to make sure the email had arrived. The person I spoke to pointed out that “written details were pointless because we can’t work form them”. When I asked how excatly I [...]
Buffalo Technology’s UK help desk is appalling. Rude, snappy and frankly appauling. A few weeks ago I bought a Buffalo LinkStation Live (320Gb version) and very nice it was too, for the first 2 days. After 2 days, it simply made a beeping noise, and did not do anything more. After 2 phone calls to [...]
malacia (mu-LA-shuh, -shee-uh) noun 1. An abnormal craving for spiced food. 2. Softening of the organ or tissue. Personally I suffer the first quite often, though it may cause the second meaning. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of [...]
Who can believe that “The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts.” People are actually “afraid that they will sexually harass [them]“. Nightmare. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two [...]
I lovelove love the last cartoon strip in todays BasicInstructions. I might possibly have done xtream roast chicken in the past. I brought it though. Definately. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus [...]
OK, as I’ve just made this work and not got time to document it “properly” here is a very quick way to record BBC Listen Again stuff to your local machine for listening again at a more convienient time (and then probably deleting because they take up space and there’s another one on next weekend [...]
Just lately I’ve had to start going through my spam box in gmail because its started catching lots of my actual emails. Most of the messages I get from a certain wellknown social networking site – spam. Most of the comments on here – spam. Emails from me to me (to rememebr things) – spam. [...]
I just recieved this gem of spamotry, which sounds strangley like something from Clockwork Orange to my ears: Babes always whizgiggled at me and even boys did in the urban water closet! Well, now I whizgiggle at them, because I took (product name removed) for 5 months and now my putz is excessively bigger than [...]
I might have refered to Karl Rove as a fat twit not many posts ago, but it would appear his father was a very interesting bloke! (not work safe, child friendly, or for those who think getting piercings is wrongin the eyes of the Lord, etc etc, you have been warned). Possibly Related Posts: Cold [...]
I have many arguments with our American cousins about cocktails* but this is just silly. Wine based cocktails are bad enough but beer based cocktails, you fucking heathens. *A martini is gin/vodka and vermouth, and nothing else. Nothing. Leave it alone. It’s the nearest thing you’ve invented to poetry. All other mixtures are just cocktails. [...]
Please please please can you do something random to help somebody you (probably) don’t know. Go to http://www.godosomethingnew.co.uk/?a=vote&save=1&uid=1580&eid=2 and vote for my old friend Heidi. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
The story of uncovering a hacked Linux box. Interesting stuff. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum
No two ways about it, Karl Rove is a tosser. Leaking the name of an undercover agent is unforgivable. Impressive for a man who probably thinks of himself as a patriot. Possibly Related Posts: Bigger guns won’t help A bear called Muhammed Monsanto seem to think information is evil No! RIP Ned Sherrin
This is a really interesting post. A share buy back and dividend package is a common thing in the market at the moment (as far as I understand), and they seem to be driven by people who ar eout to make money (hedge fund manager, share traders, Wall Street analysts, etc), and by people who [...]
One of my favorite songs, both in content and colour, is The Elements by Tom Lehrer. I aim to learn it at some point: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium [...]
One of my favorite songs, both in content and colour, is The Elements by Tom Lehrer. I aim to learn it at some point: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium [...]
“It’s never a bad thing, sometimes”. Surely thats wrong on so many levels. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
I’ve got a new phone – it’s a Samsung U600 and it is very shiny. I’d like to sync all my numbers with y ibook via bluetooth, but it’s not natively supported. Here’s a work around. Firstly, have all your contacts in Addresss.app. I use it anyway because it’s handy, and has the abilityto backup [...]
I work in a technical consultnacy*. Often I am frustrated by our apparent lack of technical staff, and the way we do business. This is a very common thing I imagine. These three articles make for interesting reason. The first is very simalar to Joel On Softwares book about how to hire the right technical [...]
I wish I had met Hugh Barrett-Lennard he sounds like a most entertaining fellow, and full of good stories. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
When people say things like… “I don’t know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act,” you know that CCTV is fucking pointless to stop crime, it is only useful after the event. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and [...]
It’s really easy, just say “please wear a condom/l’ll be wearing a condom, because I don’t want to die a horrible sticky ending“ Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things