http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog I'll get there one day. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:38:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Beau Bo D'Or has come up with this amusing poster in preparation for George W. Bush's visit to London (which it seems only anti-war groups are taking an interest in), and it's bouncing around the blogs at the moment. Much as I do harbour a dislike for both Bush and Johnson, ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/06/10/boris-johnsons-george-w-bush-quote/ Today I was in Sandhurst for the dedication of Ava, my friend Paul's daughter. I didn't really know what to expect other than "it's a bit like a christening", which it was. Of course I was really there just to catch up with Paul and to see Ava for the ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/06/01/ava-booths-dedication/ On Saturday I was invited over to Jenny's dad's open day for the narrow gauge railway he has in the garden. Yes, a train track in his garden that you can ride on! Except there was no way I was going to ride on it myself and risk ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/06/01/pete-newmans-narrow-gauge-railway-open-day/ I've not long got back from colo'ing the new server, obstler. Tonight was the only night I could do it before next week, and Graham very kindly offered to give me a lift from home at 6pm, aiming to be there by 8pm. I left dayjob early and rushed home ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/05/14/obstler/ Jake, absolutely! But there are far too many people with illogical ideas about the sanctity of corpses to stand for it, I fear. As Niven suggested, will we see this first applied to prisoners, and then the death penalty for jaywalking? http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/05/13/opt-out-organ-donation/ My MP, Alan Keen, finally wrote to me after about 6 weeks to say he had signed Early Day Motion 1155 on public photography. fanks mister! \o/ A cynical man may suspect that all labour MPs have been instructed to make nice after their local election hammering, and otherwise ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/05/08/alan-keen-i-take-some-of-it-back/ Just in case you are unaware, a planet in the blogging context is an aggregation of content from a list of individual sources such as blogs, journals, articles etcetera. Some examples of planets in no particular order: Planet Debian Planet Ubuntu UK Planet BitFolk Planet SysAdmin Over the last couple of weeks there have ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/04/27/thoughts-on-aggregators-planets/ I'm getting increasingly disturbed by reports of members of the public being harassed whilst innocently taking photos. I'm going to start keeping a list of links to this sort of thing here. 2008-06, UK -- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile -- Yahoo! News UK 2008-06, Washington DC, USA 2008-05-14, Los Angeles, California, USA 2008-05-13, ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/04/27/harassment-of-photographers/ Mad hair thing (via Why, That's Delightful!) "Luckily, the butter knife that became lodged in his head did not pierce skull" http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/04/20/links-for-2008-04-20/ Perhaps this is widespread knowledge but I didn't know about it, and in the short time since dg pointed it out to me I have been loving it, so I thought I'd mention it here. A few days ago I made stupid typos twice in a row in emails of a ... http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2008/04/16/spell-check-in-vim7-mutt/