Archive for April, 2007

My capacious sack

Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

After waiting for over a week, my new laptop bag from Crumpler has eventually turned up. I was not until recently, familiar with the brand, all I knew was that they ... Read more..

Miniwindi

Monday, April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Poker | No Comments »

In an occasional series, of poker players I have met with nice buttons – oh er Missus – here is “miniwindi.” Despite the Australian sounding name, miniwindi is actually German. We ... Read more..

God Philip

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Posted in Rants, Religion | No Comments »

No greater proof is needed that all religion is but a fantastical creation of man's imagination, than the tale of the tribes people of the island of Tanna in the ... Read more..

Encouraging

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

Lovely BUT VERY NAUGHTY, OH SO NAUGHTY, Rona, has bought the latest 17” Dual Core iMac from Apple and asked me to set it up for her, transferring data from ... Read more..

Fool

Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in Humour | No Comments »

Who you lookin' at FOOL!? Read more..

Debian Etch

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

Debian 4.0 "Etch" is now officially stable. It's also officially installed as this terminal session shows. DebianSFF:/home/davidw# cat /etc/debian_version 4.0 Just to prove that this Linux malarkey is not full of sad geeks, ... Read more..

Hot Bot

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Poker | No Comments »

While playing in a tournament recently, I came across an interesting young lady with a self-deprecating sense of humour. Her handle was “mildlyhot” and this clearly related to her avatar on ... Read more..

The French

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 Posted in Music, Rants | No Comments »

How to ruin any form of modern music - sing it in French. It may be the "language of love", but all that breathy nasality just sounds puny when singing anything ... Read more..