Monthly Archives: June 2005

I don’t know The solution that’s best for you What I should really do I don’t know I can’t say What I should work out next What problem has you vexed And you can never work through I know your … Continue reading →

Robert Scoble:- “I shut down my Tablet PC most evenings and start it up from a fresh boot,” he advised, on hearing of the taptip.exe bug. “Why do I do that? Because I’ve been using computers for 20 years and … Continue reading →

Certainly not here, at any rate. Have just been informed that police visited the home address of a member of the Bristol Indymedia Collective (BIM) late this afternoon (approx 5.30pm) armed with a search warrant. They seized from the property … Continue reading →

A lot of people have funny ideas about where home computers came from. America had the Apple machines, which kickstarted home computing in 1976 onwards. We had a lot of little machines- the Science of Cambridge MK14, the Acorn System … Continue reading →

I see it everywhere. “Fallen heroes of America.” There are heroes, and there are heroes. War isn’t heroic. War doesn’t make glory or honour. War makes young men and women dead. War bends an economy over backwards. War poisons land, … Continue reading →

This is highly entertaining. Go read!

Jack Kilby died yesterday, aged 81. I used to live on a street named after him, when I worked for Texas Instruments, designing microchips. I don’t know what to say. Thanks, Jack.

Marriage, it seems to me, is a problem. Here are my thoughts on it. The whole problem with marriage revolves around the fact that it’s not a single concept. It has several aspects: Biological. Most humans are wired to mate … Continue reading →

It’s Dan’s birthday today. He’s 30. We’re having a whip round to buy him Geritol and a wheelchair.

It’s my blog’s birthday. :)

Dan told me something I found hilarious the other day, and I’ve been trying to think of a way to use this that makes it funnier, but I just can’t, so I’ll tell it straight. “I had a dream the … Continue reading →

Dan and I got drunk and made a video. Right-click-save-as if you please. (MPEG-4, 11Mbytes.)

In fact, so hot that I am actually out of jeans and teeshirt for the first time in a year and a half. No, really.

I am still at work. Fuck it, I quit.

I wrote something about this here but redacted it before it got me in trouble.

I’m adding this to my WordPress: if ( stripos( $comment, “poker”) !== false ) die ( __(‘Spammers are not welcome here. If you’re not a spammer, try to rephrase.’) ); if ( stripos( $comment, “levitra”) !== false ) die ( … Continue reading →

It’s art if you give it a name, right? Giving a made thing a name and a context makes it art. If so, this is called “Help”. This is in Ikea in Wembley.

That, I think, is it. (Not the blog, silly. And no, I’m not going to top myself. Well, not intentionally at any rate.)

I got tagged by the delectable, selectable, reflectable Gia, so blah. 1) The total number of DVDs, videos and films I own: Probably about a hundred. A lot of these are at John’s house. I wonder if he’s still got … Continue reading →