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 […]
Mair, you could recruit more members by placing flyers in the jewellery section of Argos catalogues.
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 […]
I’m very pleased to finally be able to report some progress has been made recently on improving lug.org.uk’s services.
For a very long time, all of lug.org.uk was running from a machine kindly hosted in Leeds by Energis Squared. We (well, Alasdair) had made an attempt to install Xen on it but there was something […]
I wrote an article on the wiki about how to install a Favicon for Cacti when you don’t want to dedicate a whole virtual host to it.