Back in the last century when people still used Qmail, it used to emit a message along the lines of 'I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out', which seemed somewhat over-chummy to me. The equivalent of a bloke in a suit calling you 'mate' just ( Read more... )

I am really quite tired, but it appears I will automate your cloud/VM infrastructure for food. Or money. Preferably money, now that I think about it.

Average-length week, shiny new learnings. Devops Borat is worryingly accurate.

Perhaps I should have saved that title for a more interesting post. Who can say?

This is Eben Upton explaining why he/they created the Raspberry Pi.

What I'd not realised is that the number of people in the spod trades who're actually, y'know, any bloody use at all has dropped like a rock.

I guess this is quite handy in re. my continued employment because there aren't any hungry young graduates who can do it better and ( Read more... )

Bill Gibson in Bristol.

This, rather than brutalist shopping centres for grim-faced proles.

(From here.)

An opportunity for bar-propping at the tail end of September: http://www.bristolcon.org/Read more... )

1) Gaffer-tape camera to kite line.

2) Some wind things.

3) Profit!That was jolly good fun. The mystery kite turns out to have been designed by a colourblind Mexican on acid and have rather too many spars. This means it's disturbingly quiet but tends to fall out of the sky at inopportune moments ( Read more... )

While I generally agree with the aims and aspirations of the Cats Protection Mob...

... Cos accidents do 'appen, don't they, mush? I mean, looka dat vase. Musta cost a few bob, right? Be a terrible shame if anyfink 'appened to it, etc ( Read more... )

i) Go vote for that deathboy fellow. He's up against some frankly terrible sorts and needs an injection of good old British spunk ( Read more... )

Doing without a bathroom started as a bit of an adventure, but has become a bit of a faff. Still, I'm given to understand that it'll all be sorted by the middle of the week. A thin layer of plaster dust really does go well with a throat full of phlegm.

Less housepr0n and more reader's wives, should that sort of voyeurism light your boat.