Archive for October 2008

17 October

Yay, xkcd

Makefile: me: @true a: @true sandwich.: @[ -w /etc/shadow ] && echo "Okay." || echo "What? Make it yourself." Shell: $ make me a sandwich. What? Make it yourself. …

Archive for September 2008

24 September

Spotting a Fake Pound Coin

Supposedly 2% of all pound coins are counterfeit. But how do you know when you have a fake? I heard the news item and had a quick look at the pound coins in my pocket, and couldn’t see…

Archive for August 2008

25 August

Leeds Festival 2008

I’m still tired even a whole day after getting back, but I though it was worth it to mention how good the festival was, yet again! I didn’t get a ticket immediately after last…

Archive for July 2008

24 July

Radovan Karadžić’s disguise

Radovan Karadžić, the recently captured war criminal, was doing a good job disguising himself as Noel Sharkey: Er, I can’t remember which is which now.

Archive for May 2008

30 May

Firefox 3 World Record

The Firefox team are going for a new world record — “Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours.” The (currently beta) version 3 of their popular web browser is due to be launched…

Archive for April 2008

22 April

All Work and No Play Makes Facebook a Dull Network

The walls have spoken. In the last week or so, Facebook has introduced a new feature called Lexicon (learn more), which allows you to enter a number of search terms and see how popular those…

7 April

Dell & Linux

I was never a big fan of Dell, mainly because it really annoyed me that they only shipped Windows with their machines. Reading The Microsoft File made it clearer, if no more acceptable;…

Archive for March 2008

31 March

Leeds Festival Line-Up

Woo, I got my ticket! Here’s the line-up so far:

4 March

Delicatessen & Digressions

It was late on in the morning (ooh, at least 11). The conversation had wandered. It’s taken me a few minutes sitting here to try and piece together the conversation again, but I think we…

Archive for February 2008

25 February

Happy Switch

After spending too much time looking at images on imagechan, I was reminded of a perfect photo opportunity from childhood, sitting just in my garage: Maybe I should be doing some work.