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Unfortunate headlines...
"Stoner aims to emulate Dutch performance". No this isn't about someone indulging in too much space-cake and going to one of those strange clubs where ladies show you their undercarriage shooting out ping-pong balls, it's about a motorcyclist (Casey Stoner) hoping to repeat last year's win in the Dutch motorcycle Grand Prix at Assen. -
Occupation: Foole
Just seen that George Carlin has died aged 71.
For some reason Carlin isn't well known in the UK (he damn well should've been) - but he's the true father of a lot of 'alternative' comedy on both sides of the Atlantic. A comedian's comedian? Perhaps. A wise, profane and incredibly funny man? Definitely. -
Turn Left
The plot was hackneyed - typical butterfly-effect stuff. Sliding Doors except the bint who dies doesn't get off with the man ( Read more... ) -
One of those things that should've been there in the first place
Table2Clipboard - copies tables in Firefox and pastes 'em into Excel (or OpenOffice Calc) properly. Just saved me a couple of hours! -
Wine 1.0 released after fifteen years.
Wine finally reaches 1.0 status.
Remind me - what is the point of a shoddy piece of much-delayed software that runs only a small subset of compatible applications?
(This refers as much to Windows as to Wine).
The war's over, anyway; virtualisation won. -
Again, YouTube justifies its existence.....
Half Man Half Biscuit cover I Think We're Alone Now.
Not quite up there with the covers of Mister Blue Sky, Novelty, Transmission, or the bits of Spectre vs. Rector that keep creeping in between songs, but hey, it's HMHB covering Tiffany. ;) -
Reconstructing photographic history with Lego...
Quite remarkable. He seems to have a Star Wars fixation too. -
Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
As Tony Hancock would say...... Stone me ( Read more... ) -
Murder in the geek community - contains nasty remarks about prominent open-source weenies.
I think it's utterly shocking that Hans Reiser wasn't sharing the location of the body of the woman he murdered -- I mean, what kind of commitment to the Open Source ideology is that ( Read more... ) -
Another workplace romance ;)
Seems that that nice Mr Tennant has a penchant for guest starsI can imagine it now ( Read more... )