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Books / 11 February 2009 / John / 1
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
Ramblings / 4 February 2009 / John / 1
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
Ramblings / 2 February 2009 / John / 0
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
The Tube / 2 February 2009 / John / 2
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
Books / 28 January 2009 / John / 2
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 Lyrics / 28 January 2009 / John / 0
“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen – The River
Ramblings / 27 January 2009 / John / 0
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
Books / 27 January 2009 / John / 1
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 They’ve been replaced by warrior tribes, mud, mental nature worshippers, mud, blood, mud, murder, mud, and turnips.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
Game Diary / 24 January 2009 / John / 1
Hasn’t been much point in updating my Game Diary of late as I’ve not really been playing very many games, with the exception of PSU. I’m a long-standing fan of the Phantasy Star series and managed to run up a bit of a monster phone bill playing the DreamCast incarnation. The 360 version is just
Ramblings / 22 January 2009 / John / 0
Just a quick post while I’m waiting for a CD to burn. Here’s the thing: back in, ohhh, 1994 or 1995 – I don’t recall exactly when, but the first build of Slackware Linux had just been released – I had this idea that, as I was fortunate enough to have dial-back internet access from