I've just performed the Internet equivalent of lobbing the paper across the room and muttering 'Bloody charlatans should be bloody horsewhipped. And the Inspiral Carpets.' Only because the laptop's not mine-mine and the Linux box is too heavy to throw comfortably, I just closed the tab and resolved to write a stroppy post somewhere no-one will read ( Read more... )

While I was far away from sense and civilisation, or indeed close to same than I am usually, depending on viewpoint, the local (jolly nice) boxshifters at Novatech sent me a circular. In this, they were pleased to announce that for what may or may not have been the bargain price of £70, I could have an mini-ITX Atom board in a box. Since I've been ( Read more... )

Beetled off to Brighton for the weekend, which was something of a curate's egg.

'The quantum thief' is really jolly good, isn't it? I hoovered it up in half a day spent in some hotel rooms and a slow train back to Bristol.

Right now I am hacking on interrupt code for t'Arduino, because obviously there has to be a dead stop followed by swearing ( Read more... )

(Second title-triv quiz of the day, pop-pickers.)

... So I went for a bicycle-based potter up the hill (It's Bristol. You've a choice of down the hill and then up a different one, or up the hill and then, er, down a different one).

Discovered yet another best-avoided boozer on the way to the mildly disturbing wedding shop. Which was mildly ( Read more... )

I recall reading the edition of Byte where they investigated the Lisa (Byte used to do computers properly, I guess because each one was new and strange. They'd have the lid off to look at the circuitry, talk to the designers of hardware and OS and maybe even show you some example code ( Read more... )

Any of you lot had owt to do with Puppet? It seems to be a nice thing, but I'm having difficulty finding the notional Kool-Aid, let alone mixing up a 50-gallon drum of the stuff.

However, first a word about brains ( Read more... )

You know that part in 'Mr Hulot's holiday' with the double-lunge and the accidental winning at tennis? (If you don't, your cultural life is wanting and the DVD's cheap. Get it sorted you muppet ( Read more... )

Brown pinstripe suit w/lionels and Dunlops == Cobol programmer.

Ugh. Bad mojo.

(Though for the full effect, you'd want a knitted tie, real-ale beard and a copies of Practicals Caravan, Computing and Electronics in a 70s Sainsbury's carrier.)