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June 22, 2008 by graham
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 [...]Archive
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May 7, 2008 by graham
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 [...]Archive
February 22, 2008 by graham
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 [...]Archive
February 17, 2008 by graham
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 [...]Archive
September 18, 2007 by graham
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 [...]Archive
September 17, 2007 by graham
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.Archive
August 14, 2007 by graham
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 [...]Archive
August 7, 2007 by graham