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Death List 2009 – Wendy Richard

So Pauline Fowler has gone to meet Arthur in the the Eastend of heaven. Thanks for the point Ms. Richard. When she left Eastenders, she said, “I’m sad to leave the show but life has to go on.”

Hmmmmm…..

That’s three so far this year.

Virus nightmare

After the failure of our work anti-virus server, I’ve spent days at work – cleaning and rebuilding – cleaning and rebuilding. It could of course have been worse. We could have been an entirely Windows establishment and that would have been BAD! Novell, Linux and Apple have saved the company from an entire meltdown. Thank [...]

The Hungarian Phrasebook

Whilst idling with my iPod Touch on the most comfortable seat in the house, I noticed an update to a free translation application. Checking the read-me to see what had been updated, I was pleased to note that Hungarian had been added. I can therefore tell you, with great certainty and accuracy, that the following [...]

Red Dwarf in Corrie

Smoke me a Kipper! They’re getting on a bit aren’t they? Rimmer looks like he’s greased his hair with smeg and his hard light hologram is clearly malfunctioning. Could he be the ultimate smeghead? Kryten hasn’t aged a day – lucky thing. Lister is ageing well. Whereas Cat has clearly used up some of [...]

Islamic spam

After a series of rather wordy posts, I thought I would reward my loyal readership, all four of them, with a traditional, short, rant. While downloading mail onto my iPod Touch, I saw this monstrous invasion of my in-box.

Assalam-3-elaikum Peace be unto you.

I am Abdullah Alahdin ,a citizen of Iraq and a [...]

Death List 2009 – Jade Goody

It’s been announced that the Docs have told Jade she has months to live, that it is “a matter of when, not if.” While it’s obviously sad that someone aged only 27, with two young children, is going to die, I’m afraid to say that the involvement of “arch PR guru” (e.g. cunt) Max Clifford [...]

Darwin Day

Today is the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “Origin of Species.” They say that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, I would extend that to other spheres of human physical, mental and social activity.

Of all the possible evolutions, I would most [...]

Fried GNU

Stephen Fry explains how and why GNU/Linux is and should be free, over at the GNU website.

While a clear, compelling and as usual witty presentation, it does not tell the whole story. Stephen is helping out his friend, Richard Stallman, who runs the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and who is, if you watch the [...]