Very brief posting on behalf of a friend who's job-hunting; anybody know of any tech firms currently hiring and looking for kernel/networking/filesystem hackers with strong Linux kernel and C skills? Any leads gratefully received.

No Livejournal posting for months, then along comes ... a photo post.

Does anybody know anything about bees? Because I have no idea what's going on here. Link to photos of bees

I have to be honest, last Friday night was the first ever time I've faced a firearm. At least it was in a good cause and we talked our way out of trouble. More explanation hereIt's odd, I always assumed this kind of thing would be scary, but I'd say it was rather invigorating. Once I got over the initial wtf of a fellow striding out of a doorway ( Read more... )

Not the kind of angle I'd expect to ever photograph a snail from. Photos

For those of you I'm not in regular contact with, who might care, the current state of the PhD ( Read more... )

I've changed my route to work ever so slightly in the last few weeks, which results in me going past swarms of rabbits on a regular basis. My stealth skills have been improving with practise; the rabbits seem not to care or notice so long as I'm quiet and make no sudden movements. I present to you, lots and lots of wild rabbit photographs.

A risk that many people on bicycles often overlook is the phenomenon of 'dooring', when somebody exits a parked car, opening a door into the path of a bicycle that was riding too far to the left of their lane. In the following case study, planners have followed the idea that cyclist specific road markings are aimed at the less experienced road user ( Read more... )

Inspired by recent news of the "missing canoeist", I wound up asking myself an interesting moral question; what would I do if a friend/family member/other loved one committed a crime, and I came to have knowledge of it? I have a moral duty to support the law (in most cases), but balanced against that, I feel I have a moral duty to look out for my ( Read more... )

Submitted for your perusal without comment. Link

http://www.camcycle.org.uk/map/location/5049/
There is something terribly wrong with this. Can you spot it? Or am I just an immensely conservative/paranoid road user?

Edit: Bug downgraded from "critical" to "leads cyclists into a disadvantageous traffic light sequence".