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January 4, 2008 by graham
Can someone please send me some carrier pigeons?
January, friends. When resolutions are held (for a while at least), healthy food is eaten, chocolate lays about the place unbought and unwanted and when, naturally, our DSL connection degrades in a manner that can only be described as slovenly and untidy. High winds wreak havoc on our connection speeds. I don't know yet if [...]Archive
December 29, 2007 by graham
Where’s Santa when you need him?
Christmas, as people have often remarked, changes a lot as you get older. For one thing you get less presents (mainly because you're more fussy, I think). For another you feel less excited about the whole thing (maybe because of the lack of presents that you're getting). All of which could lead you to thinking [...]Archive
December 12, 2007 by graham
No eulogies yet, thanks
Yes, Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. No, this isn't exactly the best news ever in the history of literature. But can people please, please, please stop eulogising? As the man himself said: I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as [...]Archive
November 29, 2007 by graham
To be filed under WTF
From BBC news (link): A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. Which is bad enough. I mean it's a [...]Archive
September 9, 2007 by graham
After the dinner
(Posting this in the morning from the conference; my hotel wifi went away last night and I'm damned if I'm going to pay another 10 Euros just to post this…) Dinner's over and, for a conference dinner, it was fantastic. I should have taken photos of the food itself; the omnivore main course – which [...]Archive
June 19, 2007 by graham
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.Archive
February 15, 2007 by graham
For Crying Out Loud
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January 28, 2007 by graham
But sir, ’tis a connection nonetheless
I pay for (upto) 8Mbps broadband. I usually get circa 4.5 – 5Mbps download, 512Kbps – 1Mbps upload. Since we’ve been reconnected (yay!) I’ve had upload speeds of 400-odd Kbps, which is okay, and download speeds of 120Kbps, which is most definitely not. If we assume that in this context 1Kb = 1 kibibyte (i.e. [...]Archive
December 19, 2006 by graham