Perhaps it's just me, but I don't wonder that the sort of people who bang on about all the things they used to do are much better off being ignored.

(Grey Day, rather than Bed and Breakfast Man)

Although, 'At the edge' seems more suitable. I really don't do this sort of weather, because it's an unwelcome foreshadowing of what is to come, and the reason I'm not already hiding under the duvet is force of will.

However, there is also this, which is clearly a work of quality and distinction ( Read more... )

I think it needs someone with more brain than I to usefully explain how security research, Hakim Bey, hacking and chaos magic are all linked. Although when I say 'linked' I probably mean 'are all sticky-out bits of the same iceberg ( Read more... )

Dear Facebook types ( Read more... )

You know all those apps y'all are playing with on Friendface? (Farmville, for instance, just leaps off the page[1 ( Read more... )

( Alison, Zo, & Richard K; don't click here )

Dear rest-of-humanity, please stop greeting every unexpected but reasonably explicable happening with the phrase "John, what have you done now?". While it's rather nice to be assumed to be weakly godlike, I am in no way responsible for the effects of the wind or VirginMedia's shonky IP provision, and my computer is not able to restart fires at a ( Read more... )

That was, um, fun.In the same way that charging up Helvellyn (and a set of others I can't remember) during a Youth Hostelling week a very long time ago (the same week that South Georgia was occupied) was fun. Not at the time, but about thirty seconds after you stop ( Read more... )

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