Hills Road/Regent Street junction improvements. There's a diagram of proposed changes and a consultation form.

Someone asked how long I expected my SSDs to last. The context was swapping to SSD, but obviously it actually depends on the usage pattern as a whole, not just one aspect of it. Here’s the SMART attribute data for an Intel SSD that’s been in constant light usage, including swapping, for the last 18 months:

smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc ( Read more... )

I approve of this plan.

( Previously, previously.)

I assume this is going to cause an enormous stink (or has already done so and I’ve managed to miss it). Original article, in German.

I think this woman must be the goodman’s wife.

I caught a cold about two weeks ago. I’m still coughing slightly.

I put a deep cut into my thumb while chopping vegetables this week. (There will not be photos.)

Our landline isn’t working at the moment. Now fixed.

I’m still pleased with my phone:

• I spent too much time playing World Of Goo on it and then too much time playing Sprinkle. I ( Read more... )

The last time they did this they lent nearly half a trillion Euros. Anyone care to guess how much it’ll come to this time?

This cartoon contains the Latin phrase “MENDACII IN CLOACA TRUCES SIDERA”. I’m trying to make some sense of it.

MENDACII is the genitive singular of mendacium, which has variety of meanings mostly amounting to “a lie”. Being in the genitive means that there is something “of the lie” or “of a lie”.

IN is a preposition with with a variety of ( Read more... )

I have a tumblr at kwaktrap.tumblr.com. Its current purpose is, essentially, “best of” my photos, past and future. (By my interpretation of “best” l-)

Most of them will have appeared here at some point already.

• The language of the Picts. Probably a Brythonic language.
• Darkness
• Dear Merriam-Webster. A lexicographer’s lament.
• Nearly all marine fish came from freshwater ancestors
• Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law