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Keyhole Satellites
I'm having net issues - my home connection is piggy-backed on the big corporate pipe from the office; mostly thats a fibreoptic line north to Lago but that got cut some time last week so I'm online via satellite uplink only. Its dog slow, trying to handle all the load for the rest of the village along with me ( Read more... ) -
Nerve Pinch Of Awkward Unreachability
I had pins and needles for a chunk of Saturday - I'm assuming it was something to do with ... something, don't know, but it could have been that its proving so bloody difficult to verify whether I can just get any old AC adapter for my hard drive or whether it needs a special one. ( Read more... ) -
Jujitsu Maximum Annoyance
I just discovered that the swine who stole my ipod also stole the power cable for my hard drive - thus while I have a spare ipod, I do not have access to my music to fill it. Also, last night I watched the 23rd episode of the first season of 24. Guess where the final ep is ( Read more... ) -
The Penny Bounces
Just over a week to go, I'm up to my elbows in paperwork - mostly peripheral stuff for me, taxes, flat rental stuff. Mess. Its gone half past midnight and I still haven't packed to come home tomorrow, I want to get this stuff away because if its not tomorrow its Wednesday and thats just too damn late ( Read more... ) -
Easy =/= Shortcut
Oil Industry Overview 2007 - a bit out of date now but its got a cool sig thing I'm going to steal - "Decarbonise, Electrify."
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Next Stage of Automation?
Unmanned Aerial Manhood outrage at Kasparov rally
Simply because the line "It was theorised that Kremlin-sponsored youths may have stood behind the possibly communist contrarotating copter-cock intrusion" is not an exaggeration. -
Godzilla-like Carbon Footprint
And the latest wheeze - a day trip to Geneva to sign my contract. What... a well thought out thing. 6am flights, transfer through Schipol to get to Geneva for a four hour legalese chat at the end of which I sign myself over the labour laws of Switzerland and then get bundled back on a plane to pitch up back in ABZ for midnight.( Read more... ) -
Suitable Motivation.
I updated today and my computer BSD-ed - after I restarted in safe, virus scanned (nothing) and restarted again... my audio doesn't work. So I hacked at it until about 02:30 - because it was important. I ended up having to dig out original restart disks, deny my sound-card thrice before dawn and then reboot and reinstall ( Read more... ) -
Crunching details
Further to previous; UK heirarchy went 'Veto' and so the 20th stuck with no prior trip ... until it turned out that no such flights existed, it was either 19th or 21st ... and so its rolled forward a day to the 19th. I'm beginning not to care anymore. People keep asking me like I've got authority to decide things so I've just started writing ( Read more... ) -
If Brute Force Doesn't Solve The Problem - Use More
I'm shipping out to Nigeria in just over a month. The guy I'm replacing leaves on the Saturday 23rd, the guy I have to hand over to in ABZ comes back to the office after vacation on the 18th. I proposed to fly south on the 20th. Boss in Nigeria went 'arg, want you earlier! Need a week at least!' Boss here responded to me only "get them to send you ( Read more... )