Does anyone have a deep and possibly unhealthy knowledge of the Windows 2008 TCP/IP implementation?

( question within; any advice greatly appreciated )

It will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that I've gotten involved in the CRU email story in a number of places recently.

It will also come as no surprise to anyone that I've gotten pretty long-winded on the subject.

In a recent example on Jack of Kent's climate blog I got positively verbose:

( ...if you're really in need of sleep, read on )

The current edition of Nature has a very good editorial on the CRU's stolen emails.

Caution: those of you who know me well probably have an inkling of what I'm about to say here. And many of you may well disagree; which is your right and your duty.

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So, much as we expected a week ago, Jan Moir has published a clarification of sorts; how sorry she was to cause distress to those near and dear to Stephen Gately; how shocked, nay horrified she was to have people misinterpret her words; how sinister and unnamed groups were engaged in a campaign to silence any brave journalist who dared to voice a ( Read more... )

I didn't want to mention this before it was made public, but as of Friday evening, our family has a younger generation; my cousin Tom and his wife Marie-Sophie have had a bouncing baby girl named Evangeline.

Much quiet celebration is in progress.

Just a quick one, but it's something that bugs me slightly about the great and good getting publicly outraged en masse by Jan Moir's nasty little drivellingYes, it's nasty. Yes, it's laughably absurd - or would be if people didn't get killed for being GLBT. Yes, she's pretty obviously a bigoted and thoroughly unpleasant little moron ( Read more... )

Courtesy of the Statute Law Database'Freedom of Speech ( Read more... )

I am quite astonishingly relieved to notice that the brouhaha of the last few days has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.No con needs negative publicity, considering how hard it is to run the dratted things in the first place; and it is truly heartening to see possibly damaging situations resolved well ( Read more... )

So, in light of the date, I'm going to a friend's club night on the Tattershall Castle tonight; of which the theme is (unsurprisingly) 'pirates'.

I was asked to go as a gothic pirate.

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