Well, I've fucked up. I ordered a new hard drive, but I forgot to make sure it would be delivered by the Royal Mail. It's therefore no big surprise that yesterday I found a note from City Link indicating that it'd been left with [something unreadable] at [my flat]. Great ( Read more... )

Susan Boyle subtitled for american TV ( Read more... )

Jesus christ, I'd forgotten how goddamned stupid airline websites are. One site expired my session twice and was clearly not expecting people to buy flights from outside the US. Another site said "warning: this flight starts and ends in different airports". The same flights were wildly different prices on aggregation sites, which seemed to be ( Read more... )

Well, I've had this stuck in my head all morning and I don't see why I should be the only one suffering. Therefore ( Read more... )

Things you can monger:

• Hate
• War
• Iron
• Cheese
• Perl

Happy new year, you lot.

Apparently, 30Gb Zunes everywhere have been bricking today due to a bug in the date handling. I was highly amused by this, until midnight rolled around and my phone crashed.

Jesus Christ. Peter F Hamilton. I swear, this chapter is longer than a good couple of books I've read this month. There's no way I'm going to have read this in time to avoid having to carry it home on the train.

Question: Why the hell is my computer's fan spinning like there's no tomorrow ( Read more... )

Dinner at my flat. About 8 people have come round. To my horror, not one of them has even heard of H. P. Lovecraft. I'm no expert myself, but is he really *that* obscure?

I just remembered this. It's not quite worthy of the daily WTF because it didn't happen at a company, but it's pretty bad nevertheless ( Read more... )