(Courtesy of shreena and others)

It's done the rounds a bit by now but was inspired by this article. Please pick five or six of the adjectives below to describe me and put them in a comment ( Read more... )

Some bastard's created a virus that works through windows metafiles being able to impliment arbitrary code. The problem with windows metafiles is in legacy code reaching back to Windows 3.0 ( Read more... )

My basic principle is that this is an imperfect world or, to put it colloquially, shit happens. This has two corollaries ( Read more... )

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich

So. I ordered broadband and bought an ADSL modem and tried to set it up. Shouldn't be too hard, so I thought. I read the manual while bringing the thing home - it looked small and simple. I should have realised that this was a bad sign.

( Comedy of errors beneath )

... then something shows me I'm not nearly cynical enough.

The (former) head of FEMA's e-mails (or most of them) have been released. Also here's an analysis of them. Read it and weep. Or rage. (Bloomberg

Edit: Seemingly both PDF files have disappeared from the congressman's website. CNN has mirrors both of the e-mails and the analysis. I ( Read more... )

Greenpeace have just been fined £4000 pounds for damaging a coral reef.

I've at long last succeeded at interview (those of you trying, keep persevering - it took me a few months and this isn't my first job). I start on Wednesday.

Anyway, now to my first poll. Because the job is in Harrow, I am going to be moving -and I want a flat or studio flat of my own rather than to share with anyone.

Poll Home sweet home

The long, low ridges of the Somme, in northern France are now synonymous with the senseless stalemate of the Western Front in 1916. But the exhausted, grimy English soldiers stumbling through this landscape, sinking up to their knees in mud, once wore kettle helmets and padded jerkins. Their weapons were not Tommy-guns but longbows, each six feet ( Read more... )

At the ongoing court trial, Michael Behe has recently made some damning admissions about Intelligent Design. The first and most obvious is that by Behe's definition of a scientific theory, Astrology is a scientific theory. This is because his definition of a scientific theory is almost exactly the same as the standard scientific definition of a ( Read more... )

I installed Ubuntu earlier today and I'm not terribly happy. Amongst the things that went wrong were:

• The bootloader didn't allow me a multi-boot with any option I tried.
  
• It doesn't seem to like my modem - and I couldn't log into Win98 to get at the connection details
  
• The MP3 player tells me it needs a plugin to play MP3s (and you can hardly ( Read more... )