1. Aylesbury Vale Parkway - Harrow-on-the-Hill ( Read more... )

We are back.
I hope nothing bizarre has happened whilst we were away e.g.
a) Jeremy Corbyn being elected leader of the Labour Party
b) a book being published suggesting that the PM stuck his dick in the head of a dead pig in public and that someone may have a photo of this

The BBC, which is quite capable of doing bad versions of easy to film SF / Fantasy, is going to attempt a difficult to film one ( Read more... )

The question that springs to my mind is is there a decent contemporary book about cybersecurity?. What are the real threat models these days that one might plausibly defend against? Clearly we have to distinguish between state and non-state actors - with state actors one is probably pretty screwed - and the question arises of what can they really ( Read more... )

An exchange of email between me and pmcray (whom God preserve, of Utrecht) also trading as atomicrazorfeedThe subject of 'The Splorch' had already come up via JWZ's blog http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/08/ovipositive-2/ (not so much NSFW as the kind of thing that might be considered 'deeply ( Read more... )

An exchange of email between me and pmcray (whom God preserve, of Utrecht) also trading as atomicrazorfeedThe subject of 'The Splorch' had already come up via JWZ's blog http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/08/ovipositive-2/ (not so much NSFW as the kind of thing that might be considered 'deeply ( Read more... )

Or more accurately, Fear, who came 5th in his ward and so wasn't elected. The town council is now 10 Tory, 8 Lib-Dems, 1 Independent (left Lib-Dems over behaviour in government).
So the red dog-poo bins will be conntracted out by Tories, like the green dog-poo bins.

In other news
a) Some of you may not be aware of 'comment is weird' http:// ( Read more... )

So, things are getting, er, tetchy on Facebook amongst my friends there from the running club (the main factions are 'The NHS will fall to bits' vs 'The NHS would have fallen to bits anyway', I simplify slightly). Meanwhile here I am on the only true social network. I have other things to do but I have a habit of thinking 'I have thing x to do so I ( Read more... )

I am surprised more has not been made of this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2015/newsspec_7937/content/english/index.html?v=0.2.27The most microchipped dog by council area (county / unitary authority?). Obviously this is ( Read more... )

Funnily enough I had mentioned Terry Pratchett yesterday before the news of his death - I quoted Ansible on the subject of the BBC to Dr Cray (whom God preserve) and someone else  http://news.ansible.uk/a264.html'Something for the Very Strange department; the BBC contacted us about doing a prime time series based on the Guards books. Things seemed ( Read more... )