Archive for May, 2006

Is UKUUG worth it?

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Omahn, I think at £40/year UKUUG is definitely worth it, if you go to at least one of the conferences each year. They’re really quite high quality and a good time is to be had at the meal afterwards too. Although due to work pressures I haven’t been able to make it to […]

Can this person be for real?

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

First read these threads:

http://www.vxronline.co.uk/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=714
http://www.vxronline.co.uk/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=766

I hope for the future of humanity that “Police_Driver” is trolling. Choice quotes I particularly enjoyed:
“Often I put the rear seats flat, this reduces weight. (Like why you crawl flat across a frozen pond so as not to break the ice).”
“The rear seat thing, It is rare that I fold them […]

New ducti

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Last year sometime I bought a Triplett ducti wallet. It has served me admirably, but in the last month or two the clear tape on the outside started to peel back. With the underside of it being sticky it was getting fluff all on it and starting to look a bit scruffy.
I mailed […]

Is “Chinese whispers” racist?

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Here’s something I’ve been pondering recently.
Is the phrase “chinese whispers” racist?
You may not know, because I didn’t know until I looked it up very recently, that the term is a very colonial one (late 19th, early 20th century British empire) and refers to a game which most of the rest of the world knows as […]

Planet Strugglers

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I aggregated a few Strugglers blogs onto Planet Strugglers. If any of you can provide better CSS, HTML and/or some nice images then do let me know.

Dear Lazyweb, Can you suggest an organiser/calendaring solution?

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Hi,
What I’m looking for is a simple organiser or calendaring solution whereby everything is stored on a server. I want to be able to put in details of TODO items, events and meetings via a web interface (so that I can do it from mostly anywhere).
It should be able to email me about upcoming […]