On Sunday I’d offered to cook a three course meal that’s a bit different from what we usually eat. I virtually never cook and when I do it’s always just something quick. I don’t enjoy cooking, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway. Although these recipes were very simple, by [...]
Yesterday I happened to be waiting on a tube platform with a non-technical person, and we were opposite one of those new Google Chrome ads, as pictured here.
I’ve seen a few people comment that they didn’t think that a non-technical person would understand what they were all about, so I took the opportunity to ask [...]
First: I don’t know much about economics. This is not an opinion piece; I am genuinely looking for other people’s opinions, so please comment if you have an opinion on it.
I’m just watching The Love of Money and it was saying how Paulson and Bernanke said to the US government that if the banks [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, [jwz has] ported Dali Clock to the Palm Pre.
Phil Hands explains how to do passphrase-less ssh properly.
Tonight we went to a lecture at the National Portrait Gallery called Making Time, delivered by David Rooney, Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
The talk is part of a programme of events called Slow Down London, a project which hopes to inspire Londoners to take the time to appreciate the things around them [...]
Today I received a fairly credible phishing attempt for Alliance & Leicester bank sent to me on an address I have only ever given to SMC Direct. When I reported it to SMC Direct they said there have been no other reports from anyone else and that I probably have a virus on my [...]
After discussing the following Freecycle ad on IRC:
Hi all. me and my chilren are moving to an unfurnished home and we need pretty much everything like sofas 2 two seaters colour unimportant. microwave, tv unit, small tv for my daughters bedroom and everything would be well appreicated so please contact me if you have any [...]
Mair, do you really have no utility bill? What about gas, telephone? Do you have no savings account nor pension? Nothing from a letting agency?
I’d say your best bet is still a utility bill.
I’m a Smile customer. I’m pretty happy with them, so I’d say it’s worth the hassle.
Having just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Edgy one of the things that took me longest to get working how I used to have (or at least how I like) has been the vertical tab bar in Firefox, since Edgy comes with Firefox 2 and the old hack for 1.x no longer works.
For years now [...]
I was quite shocked and saddened to notice via Ugo Cei that Robert Anton Wilson is in a bit of a bad way. I can’t say I’m a fanatical devotee but certainly he’s someone whose work I’ve read and appreciated and it’s hard to reconcile that he is terminally ill and potentially going to [...]
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