One of the things that I'm doing at work is hacking on our VM-build rig so that is it less terrible to use. [1] Coincidentally, there's some network-fondling going on that will make it 'trivial'(tm) to do IPv6 on the servers. So I have this medium-sized chain of VMs and config running on the Xen cluster in the basement and fucking hell has it been ( Read more... )

[ This was inspired by a report on the Facebooks. Rather than make someone else's grim time All About Me and my Womanfeels, I shall perform my tangenteering here ( Read more... )

A cow-orker (gamer, female) was gleefully pointing out the latest Moral Outrage earlier ( Read more... )

If you repeat a phrase enough it becomes meaningless, and then tiresome ( Read more... )

Today I am really quite sleep-deprived after being woken at zero-dark by $website (and indeed $other-website) expiring on Sunday and Monday. I suspect there's an upper age limit on being able to perform on-call stuff like that without wanting to find those responsible for the failure and administer a shoeing ( Read more... )

I'm sure you're feeling jolly pleased with yourselves for discovering this exciting new thing where you can play Jolly Tricks on someone who's left a logged-in session open on one or other 'social networking' site. (nb: sarcasmHowever, calling it 'frape' or 'facebook rape' is, as I'm sure has been pointed out, a bit shit ( Read more... )

Dear twatty-boy in the Frenchay hospital bus. No doubt you consider yourself above moral reproach because you are doing 'good works' and criticising NHS workers is akin to booting baskets of kittens into acid-filled industrial canals. However, the next time you come past me with a foot to spare, I'm going to climb in the bloody passenger door and ( Read more... )

Does anyone really, truly believe this is news?If you do, I suggest the following ( Read more... )

IM IN UR BASE EATING UR VOLTS.

For fuck's sake.

Bring back Gabrielle Drake in a purple wig, please.

Um. You know what's, um, wrong with, um, you know, podcasting? Lack of professionalism. Broadcasters may only be the lackey-mouthpieces of the ruling elite, but they're trained to, um, like, construct, um, you know, sentences.

If this is the state of the average Guardian 'podcast' then they really need to stick to the duck-squeezing and hand- ( Read more... )