Monthly Archives: March 2005

I took the bike (see below) for MoT a couple of days ago. It failed. The rear shock absorbers were shot. In fact, one of them was bent- presumably the impact on the exhaust had bashed it sideways hard enough … Continue reading →

Jim took some pictures of me on the bike before I left. Thanks, Jim. Thim.

I have food poisoning. I blame the Deep Pan Pizza Co. These cramps are really cramping my style.

I got a song stuck in my head during the journey. In fact, it happened early on- I was hurtling up the A8 at an unspeakable rate of travel when I moved over and a Volkswagen Golf that was waiting … Continue reading →

Yesterday I completed the first leg of what may be the longest ‘journey to a pre-booked MoT test’ ever. (Actually, it’s not- I know someone who rode a CZ 175 from Poland… insane but true.) It took me from Sophia-Antipolis, … Continue reading →

I survived. More later.

Profound.

Having seen this Terri Schiavo thing, and been sickened by it, I just want to make it absolutely clear to you, my many readers, that if I should be brain damaged to the extent that I am no longer capable … Continue reading →

Normal service will be resumed as soon as I sort this mess out.

Mem::Copy() performance as a surface in alignment space. (Right click and ‘view image’ for a higher resolution view.)

deserve no respect. Video from Iraq. This is the one where a bunch of lackwits with guns shoot a dog because it’s ‘funny’. “Hi my name is M. D. formerly of A TRP 1-10 CAV 4ID and while in Iraq … Continue reading →

I promise not to poison any pigeons.

Okay people, time for some fun. Ask me questions, I will answer them. A few to start you off: Name three things that annoy you: Bureaucracy The inability of people to grasp the simple fact that Wales is not part … Continue reading →

Debian, in a legendarily retarded move, today opined that they would drop ARM, the world’s most popular processor architecture, and SPARC, the architecture of choice for datacentres, preferring instead to support Itanium. If someone can explain to me why they … Continue reading →

Apparently, according to this (thanks Gia) I’m a Rational: Rationals, are the problem solving temperament, particularly if the problem has to do with the many complex systems that make up the world around us. Rationals might tackle problems in organic … Continue reading →

…metaphorically, in any case. Human history is full of cataclysm; maybe some ancient memory of when we went through whatever dieoff it was that left only a handful of women on the planet. We know this happened because we have … Continue reading →

I just remembered, I’m from Proxima Centauri.