This question arose out of a discussion about bugs on facebook. We were discussing whether, if one changes one's sex on facebook, status messages from prior to the change should be altered to reflect the new status. That is, should a sex change be applied retroactively. My feeling was that it shouldn't, in line with most changes of this sort - if I ( Read more... )

So, am coming into Oxford to attend e_pepys's election night party. I have to leave in about 15 minutes to get the bus. The party starts at 22:30. It occurs to me that I should see whether anybody feels like doing anything in the 5 or so hours between getting to Oxford and going to the party. Of course, it also occurs that I should have charged my phone, ( Read more... )

Birmingham has had snow, apparently. We now have some snow here, though I doubt it will settle, as it's been raining for the past few hours. How fares Oxenford?

So, actually sort-of-employed at the moment, which is nice. Well, technically, atm I'm waiting for an email to come through with login details for the server I'm meant to be working on, until which I can't do much, but.... Doing some freelance work for the chap I've worked for the past few summers, and with another chap down in Dorset in the same ( Read more... )

In my last post, when I mentioned that Spore would run under linux (details of which can be found here, btw - basically, if you compile the git version of wine and turn the lighting down to the lowest level, it should all work), footnotetoplato asked whether it was worthwhile. Which is an interesting question, and one that I felt might merit a post ( Read more... )

Optimising my livejournal-content to word count ratio, I deliver two pieces of data in a single sentence - the first, a useful piece of information to those whom it may concern, of which I feel there are a few on this list; the second, an indication of what I've been doing these past couple of days.

It is possible to run Spore under linux. :-)

The BBC, in response to Tesco's agreeing to change its signs above the small-number-of-items aisles, has published a list of common grammatical errors that people have sent in (and should I have used 'which' there?). I was walking along the high street the other day and found, in a change from the usual apostrophe misuse, this ( Read more... )

Haha! Mr. House has broadband...

...very slow broadband, seemingly. Bloody BT. But we are connected, finally.

I think that footnotetoplato will be the last to officially visit it, but Lost Hope is now emptied, scrubbed and moved-out-of. 'Mould Spray' may indeed look like it can single-handedly destroy the environment, but it can certainly destroy mould. We're pretty confident that, even though the house might fall slightly short of our own standards for cleanliness, it's ( Read more... )

Just to say that I'll be in Oxford tomorrow from about 11am, packing up desks and things to take home, if anyone wants to do anything.