Year: 2009
Neeyaaaaargh!
Ok, so I run fvwm2 and I’m very happy with it. It does absolutely everything I need with no frills, fuss, or bloat. Except I also need to use pidgin as most of our inter-departmental communication is via jabber. Except Pidgin is one of those applications written by the worst kind of code-hacker – the
World War Z: An oral history of the Zombie War – Max Brooks
I love it when a book surprises me. It doesn’t happen very often, sadly, but it did with this one. World War Z not only surprised me, but…. well, hang on – let’s back up a bit. From reading the dust cover, you’d think this was an action / horror story. World invaded by zombies, mankind fighting
BBC News Strikes Again – The Reprise
OK, so after my acerbic rant about the BBC hysterically over-reporting the alleged dangers of snow, Mrs Gubbins has only gone and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking her wrist and causing a lateral fracture along the length of her forearm. I hate it when Sod’s Law interferes with a good rant. Note: Current
BBC News Strikes Again
Ok, so the BBC, in their usual hysterical manner, have been reporting on the fact that there’s snow. So I thought I should help out by suggesting a headline. Click the image at the start of this story to see it. Obviously, as they have to manufacture panic to give them something to report on
You never saw me. I wasn’t here.
Ok, so I don’t do this, ok? I *never* fall for quirky ads, I am no-one’s target market, and I would never ever EVER propagate viral marketing. Ok? We clear on that? But still – this is genius. Â
Series or Parallel
I appear to have some difficulty when it comes to series. Inasmuch as I seem to be incapable of reading the whole series from start to finish. For example, at the moment, I’ve read the first three books of “The Dark Tower”, by Stephen King; the first book of “Warlord”, by Bernard Cornwell; and have
ACE Lyric #10
“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen – The River
RAID1 Woe
Here’s an annoying thing. I have this box which is used as a development database by one of our dev teams. It’s a lightweight little thing – an HP ML110 quad-core jobbie with a couple of 500GB SATA drives configured as RAID1 using software RAID under CentOS Linux. The thing runs Oracle9i in 4GB of
The Winter King – Bernard Cornwell
The Winter King  is the first volume in Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord trilogy. It’s a retelling of the Arthur legends, but from a more historical perspective. Gone are the glittering castles, Knights in full armour, and magic wielding druids. They’ve been replaced by warrior tribes, mud, mental nature worshippers, mud, blood, mud, murder, mud, and turnips. And