Just got back from a pretty damn good funk / jazz group playing at Pitcher & Piano. They are here if you're interested - yes, myspace, I feel dirty.

I was also told that Ding Dong Daddios will be playing two weeks hence, if people are interested.

You know when your smoke alarms are running down, and they bip every so often to remind you?

Wow it's annoying when that happens in the house next door. Might be a while before I get to sleep.

I am all alone in the house! That is a statement meant in a positive manner - I need some solitary time once in a while. Everyone else has gone back to their parents for christmas, while I stay here to attempt the by now much loathed dissertation write-up. That statement, not so positive. Ah well ( Read more... )

So, another meeting with supervisor two days ago. Still can't provide me a deadline, still can't say if the second extension request is proceeding ( Read more... )

gconf is braindead and deserves to be poked in the eye.

Who thought copying the Windows registry, and removing the ability to configure apps from within the app was a clever concept?

Yes, I am working, this is research!

Somehow I missed this android replica of Philip K. Dick.

Links goes to web archive as the real site has lapsed. There are some construction photos here though. I'd buy a PKD replica head just to be disturbed by it ( Read more... )

My news this week is that my MSc course has become unexpectedly shorter and more stressful ( Read more... )

This might interest a few people, but maybe not; hence just a short note and you can ask if you want :P ( Read more... )

This is a call for people in Reading who would like to see lots of fireworks this Friday. Or people that want to visit Reading :)

I shall be exploding lots, with the help of anyone who turns up, at around 2130 in Palmer Park.

Grr, for the last three days I've woken two hours before my alarm, and got lots of stuff done. That part is fine, but I don't like getting up in the dark, and I'm getting increasingly tired.

Now, my plea for help - anyone got any experience with Qemu?
That, or anyone think of things that could cause:

No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ( Read more... )