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She's Giving Me The Excitations!
So, last weekend I tramped off to Sydney to attend the Good Vibrations festival. There is a cracking account (including some funky-ass photos) after the cut.
( Good Vibrations! ) -
Getting Back In Form
So in the last 24 hours I have managed to ( Read more... ) -
x86 Revisited
This may not be very interesting to many of you, but it is to me. AMD has upped the ante on what can be done with the x86, adding a bunch of very nice new features ( Read more... ) -
One Day At A Time
Still this emptiness persists -
Perhaps this is as good as it gets?
When you've given up the drink, and those nasty cigarettes,
Now leave the party early, but at least with no regrets.
I watch the sun as it comes, I watch it as it sets,
Yeah, this is as good as it gets.
I'll write more when I get the time. -
Hi! It looks like you're visible to the spooks!
For years, there have been rumours of NSA (US National Security Agency, responsible for US government codebreaking, among other things) entanglement in publicly described cryptosystems. The most well-known of these is the DES private-key encryption standard, which has been rumoured to contain a mathematical backdoor known only to NSA cryptanalysts ( Read more... ) -
Victor's Justice
Following a trial that was deeply flawed in almost every possible way, Saddam Hussein was this morning executed in Iraq, for the mass murder of 148 citizens of the village of Dujail in 1982 ( Read more... ) -
Dubaiworld
Some guys have put together a page listing some of the major construction projects in a city over in the UAE, and they've come to the obvious conclusion: Dubai is fucking nutsSeriously. I'm assuming most (if not all) of the bankrolling for this development is coming directly from oil, via the pockets of some ultramega-wealthy sheikhs, and you have ( Read more... ) -
Papa's Got A Brand New Bodybag
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, is dead at 73. This is a pity - the man made some fucking good music, lived a crazy lifestyle (to bastardise a quote that was originally about Hunter S. Thompson, the only thing that all drugs have in common is that at some point, they have passed through James Brown), and generally set a poor example to children ( Read more... ) -
Retrospective
Yeah, 2006 is almost done, and I can't say I'm sorry to see the back of it. It's been a pretty crazy year, though, and behind the cut is some idea why.
( Another 2006 Meme! )
