This Saturday: Ely Eel Day.

Activities include a Town Crier competition, eel throwing (like welly throwing, but not with real eels), a samba band leading a carnival from the Cathedral to the river side, children's theatre, historical re-enactments, pottery workshops, hog roast, and smoked and jellied eels.

Do you need information in how to hook up a hose to a kitchen sink?

Seen everywhere

Funny how pagan chocolate eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies are permitted by Christians, but as soon as someone makes a chocolate Easter Jesus in Holy Week it becomes "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever".

It seems the Catholic League don't want anyone to eat the body of Chirst either. Drinking His blood is still OK.

iPod games will not play on Apple TV ( Read more... )

While one can recover from malware which deletes files by using backup copies of all files, how is one supposed to recover from malware which calls DestroyPhysicalMonitor or DestroyPhyiscalMonitors?

I'm sure there'll also be much monitor destroying in Transformers next year.

(Back dated to the time I was online on Christmas Day)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6200383.stm

Yes, it is OK to go online on Christmas Day when one's new electronic gadget (thanks bellanna!) needs to fetch updates from the manufacturer's website.

No photos today - too dull and foggy. Instead some Star Wars fun: B/W silent movie and design the perfect Death Star.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/europe.stm

( They've fixed it now, of course, but I still have my screen shot ... )

I am enjoying my subscription to New Scientist magazine (arrives every Thursday!) and, even though bellanna chides me for not reading them fast enough, they do eventually end up in the office's kitchen for my colleagues to enjoy too.

This week there are two stories of particular note:
- Male dung beetles with the most dramatic and impressive sets of horns ( Read more... )

http://www.xkcd.com/c77.html