So this morning I put on a pair of jeans and some sandals, as it’s quite warm currently. This resulted in the following conversation: JSR: “Do do you like this look? Am I rocking it?” Annette: “You .. look like you should have a favourite linux distribution.” [Pause] JSR: “I…
Mid afternoon today, I phoned my friendly and excellent mechanic (since he’s now back from holiday), and I said “I’ll bring the car in tomorrow morning, it’s started sort of juddering and wobbling a little bit, and the juddering increases with speed. I’ve checked the tyres…
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214 Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the…
So, it’s now 2009. Only a year until the time frame of the sequel to 2001: A Space Oddessy. And I do not have any of the following: – A jetpack – An atomic-powered anything – A robot butler – A ray gun – Food pills Unacceptable. We can do better than this.…
So today I vaped my gaming rigs XP partition and replaced it with Vista Ultimate 64bit Super Hyper Turbo Edition. I did this because DirectX 10 seems to be Vista-only, and because my gaming rig has 8GB of ram of which XP could address 3.75GB or so, which seems…
Work put on an xmas lunch today – KFC and Indian food. Which is an awesome thing for work to do. I wasn’t in an indian food mood, so I had a couple of bits of KFC. This is the first time I’ve had KFC chicken bits, with bones…
So I drive home from work and go to park in my spot, and someone is in it. A couple, in fact. They’re sitting in their car, in my spot, looks like they’re talking. This sort of thing is not an infrequent event. I honk my horn, and…
So, over the last week or so, apache on my mail/web server has crashed a couple of times, leaving itself in a zombie state. This is new behaviour for it, as it’s been stable as for ages. A restart fixed it each time, so meh. Then this morning,…