Funny thing happening on my friends page - I can only skip back one page and no more. If I try to cheat by changing skip=10 to skip=20, nothing loads. What am I doing wrong?

It's been a very long time since I last posted on here, and I suspect it'll be even longer till the next time. LJ has a very small group of people using it, it's a pain in the neck even to put up one photo and write about it, and it doesn't work well with my smartphone which, given my only available time is while commuting, is a deal-breaker. ( Read more... )

Friends: The One with Dave and Sam's Trip to IbizaIf I were required to sum up the article linked above in two words, they would be these: entertaining drivel. Notwithstanding this, its very existence - online, and on paper in my motherland - caused me to put down my smartphone and start thinking. Is this the freedom for which I am occasionally ( Read more... )

New meme. I read this reported in the Telegraph; thought I'd answer it. Apparently Country Life considers these essential skills.

Every young man and woman should know how to:

1. Cook three different dinner party menus
Cannot... I can just about cook for two!

2. Say 'Can you help me please' in Arabic, Cantonese, Urdu, Spanish and Russian Don't ( Read more... )

Scene: The office
Will and Glenn are fixing a spreadsheet. June is looking on.June: "rock weight" yinggoi hai y'ah yi ah~ (translation: Rock weight should be 22 ( Read more... )

History of Reclamation in HK, abridged ( Read more... )

This morning's weather in Osaka was reminiscent of the finest mornings of the English summer; you know, when the sun is shining in a way that instructs you to get up and enjoy it because it won't last long. The air was warm and fresh and the birds sang with the cicadas in discordant harmony. It was a shame to enter the clinically air-conditioned no ( Read more... )

Oil spill 'will shape how US thinks about environment'What a superb piece of hyperbole. Add that to the continued reference to BP as British Petroleum and we Brits are on the same level as terrorists who fly planes into towers killing thousands of innocent citizens. Oh, didn't you know? BP deliberately destroyed its rig and sacrificed a lot of ( Read more... )

I haven't really had time to comment on the current situation, but I had to rant about this gem from Lord Adonis:

"No one party can command a majority in the House of Commons. Fifteen million people voted for Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined, last Thursday. Only 10 million people voted for the Conservative Party last Thursday ( Read more... )

I'm currently learning another finite-element software, GeoStudio SEEP/W. The first step is to read the manual, which is very educational as the software was developed by an academic team (rather than a design company, which is the usual case). I thought I'd share a couple of gems.

First, it's not a manual: In general, this book* is not a "how to ( Read more... )