So I switched hatter on this morning, went downstairs, wondered why the intranet wasn't working, went back upstairs discovered that hatter had failed to boot up because one of its SCSI disks isn't working :( Now there is RAID and all that kind of thing on hatter, so I should in theory be able to recover the data, if that is I had a bootable disk ( Read more... )

A friend of mine (chuckiecobain) is writing an article about how people perceive Pakistan (PK). She has a series of questions - just three - and she's trying to get as wide a range of responses as possible. So I was wondering if you, dear reader, would tell me what you think when you think of PK ( Read more... )

There is one thing I absolutely hate, and that is celebrity culture. That is the worshipping of someone not because of what they do, but because of who they are. In these modern times things are even worse, we now have manufactured celebrities, people who have been created by the media for no other purpose than to be a celebrity. The worst culprit ( Read more... )

Poll Hallelujah

Now although I'm probably the only person in the country who approves of Simon Cowell's trouser height (wear your jeans high and they are further away from the mud!), it is a bit of a sad state of affairs where he has monopolised the Christmas number 1, its almost as bad as Cliff Richard! So I've joined the Internet bandwagon and lets hope that ( Read more... )

A while ago I was complaining about how "Just for You" had disappeared from iTunes. Well now it seems to have reappeared as "Genius Just for you", which I guess is using your entire music library to suggest things! Now much as I worry about big brother and that kind of thing, it does seem to be uncannily good at suggesting stuff, scarily so, much ( Read more... )

I'm sure thetruthaddict remembers the bizarre swerve on Binley Road from his days of driving the coach from Coventry to up north....

Well its got even worse!


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From The Local, on how hard is Swedish to learn...
Kristina Assouri
Picture this: I come up to a café and attempt to order a “liten latte snälla”, said in what is seen as a typical American accent. The response I often times get goes something like: “so you want a small latte for here or to go.”
Defeated, I say “for here.” To which I get the ( Read more... )

I've always had one or two peculiar dreams, well now my dream self seems to have turned into a doctor and has decided to go around and fix everyone's aliments.
So to start with, in what I must say is a most interesting bit of medicine we have is fixing happysurveyor_b's back, using a bath of custard! Now I know that custard has some unusual properties, in ( Read more... )