Very quickly
Very quick post because I’m supposed to be going out to photograph most of London (this may be an exaggeration; we’ll see) before too long. Of course, it would have helped if I’d actually done some organising of said photo walk; that may cause problems. It’s been a good, if very tiring week. We – [...]
If you’re seeing this…
… then the DNS records have propagated correctly and your RSS feed reader is now slurping from the new grahambinns.com server, which is just hunky dory as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been working on this version of things for a while. Besides a re-skin – which taught me a lot about how I should [...]
5 million
One of my photography idols, Rebekka Gudleifsdottir , has passed 5 million views on her Flickr stream. That's insane. Congratulations Rebekka!
Second Edition Hardy T-Shirts are now available for preorder
Due to enormous demand the Canonical shop is now offering a second printing of the Hardy Heron T-Shirt, this time on sand-coloured cotton. From the shop: Due to unprecedented demand, we are producing a second edition Hardy Heron t-shirt. This edition is very similar to the limited edition t-shirt in design, but rather than including [...]
One of those analogies you won’t forget
My colleague and friend Matt Revell has a nice summary of some of the reasons for rising domestic fuel prices in the UK at the moment. A phrase that particularly caught my eye was this one: Wind power, also, is not reliable nor particularly efficient and requires generation from other sources (coal, gas, nuclear, for [...]
In the loop, honest
Wow. Once again, I'm late in getting on a particular train of thought. That's not unusual, true, but I should have been slightly quicker about it this time round because a) it's something in which I'm really, really interested and b) one of my friends, whose blog I read, posted about it and I didn't [...]
The Man Who Sued God
From Religion News Blog (link): Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world. … The suit asks for a “permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.” … Chambers also cites [...]
Wakey wakey, rise and shine
Dead man wakes under autopsy knife (Reuters , via BoingBoing): "I woke up because the pain was unbearable," [he] said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal. Pretty high on the oops list, that one.
The quotable Doctorow
Cory Doctorow on the Beeb's new iPlayer and DRM in general in Guardian Unlimited today (link): The DRM business model is the urinary tract infection of media experiences: all of the uses that used to come in an easy gush now come in a mingy, painful dribble – a few pennies out of your pocket [...]
Dell and Ubuntu, sitting in a tree, etc.
The news just came through that Dell have officially unveiled two systems available in Europe (including the UK) with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on them. This is very cool, and represents another step along the road to fixing bug #1. From the press release (ubuntu.com): Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the [...]
The thought police are out to play again
You'll all remember, no doubt, the fuss that kicked up when Livejournal owners SixApart started censoring and disabling journals based on some fairly specious grounds (and which, eventually, led to them back-pedalling at great speed). Well. dear reader, it looks like it's happening again. From CNet: The most recent saga over user-generated Harry Potter artwork [...]
But… It’s obvious
The BBC is carrying a (naturally very important) story about a cat in the states who can apparently predict death. From the article: Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours. … A doctor who treats patients at the home said she [...]
You’d laugh, if it were funny
Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' killed off (BBC) A Palestinian TV station has killed off a controversial Mickey Mouse lookalike that critics said was spreading anti-US and anti-Israeli messages to children. The Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel aired the last episode on Friday, showing the character, Farfur, being beaten to death by an "Israeli agent". … In the final [...]
Ihn verbieten!
This tickles me a bit. The headline, especially. Germany imposes ban on Tom Cruise (BBC) Germany has banned the makers of Tom Cruise's new movie from filming at military sites in the country because the actor is a Scientologist. In other news, my remote feed (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) aggregator thingumy appears to be buggered. Ho [...]
Farewell to Geek Fu
Mur Lafferty, writer, podcaster and tiara-wearing queen of wannabe writers is putting Geek Fu Action Grip on indefinite hiatus for reasons which I have no business repeating here (go there, use ears, understand). I first came across Mur and her work when, Googling for writing resources, I found I Should Be Writing. I subscribed to [...]
Geography: physics slowed down with trees stuck in it
And just like physics, it can surprise you sometimes. Lake disappears suddenly in Chile "In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal," said Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf. "We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left [...]
A Muslim view on the whole Rushdie thing
Irshad Manji, a self-titled "Muslim Refusenik" gives her reaction to the whole furore that has exploded over the decision to make Salman Rushdie a Knight of the realm over at the Religion News Blog. Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are: Above all, I am offended that so many other Muslims are not offended [...]
Institutionalisation
Oh do fuck off, the Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne. ID cards 'to be UK institution' The identity card scheme will become a "great British institution" on a par with the railways in the 19th Century, Home Office minister Liam Byrne says.
What?
Woman jailed for testicle attack: She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That’s yours."
Bullet points, etc.
I've been saving up a couple of things to post. No, that's a lie. I've been meaning to post about a couple of things but keep finding other things to do. So I'm going to do bullet points instead for the sake of brevity. I might expand upon them later. Flickr is playing silly buggers [...]
Michigan man fined for not buying coffee
Well, that's sort of what it boils down to (link , via): He got on the Internet by tapping into the local coffee shop's wireless network, but instead of going inside the shop to use the free Wi-Fi offered to paying customers, he chose to remain in his car and piggyback off the network, which [...]
Yet more Elljay
LiveJournal have restored the non-problem accounts out of the ones that they suspended: The class of suspensions that are being reversed are: All Fandom journals All fiction journals All journals who that had problems in their profile only Good. Now all I need to do is figure out why they've stopped updating my syndicated RSS [...]
More LiveJournal
SixApart CEO Barak Berkowitz has apologised for the LiveJournal account suspension screw-up that I posted about yesterday. Also in the news post linked to above are details of why the screw-up happened and what they're doing to resolve the problem. Interestingly, the section of the post that details LiveJournal's rationale for account suspension has parts [...]
