Archive for January, 2010

Big Garden Birdwatch 2010

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Birds | No Comments »

This year was tricky. As my living room faces south, and for once the sun was out, there was a large amount of glare to contend with when spotting the ... Read more..

Git

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Rants | 2 Comments »

What do you call someone who gets off the same bus as you, approaches and asks if you are missing a glove? Once you have checked to find that you are ... Read more..

iPad criticisms

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Tech Stuff | 1 Comment »

This pastiche hits home with justified criticisms of the iPad. [flv:/wp/wp-content/flv/HitleriPad.flv 480 368] If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, a netbook or an e-book reader, why would you want an ... Read more..

Travel

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Thoughts | No Comments »

Tonight I have been to the Mare Insularum, down to the Mare Nubium and across to Tyco. I flipped left and jumped to Mars. Too perturbed, I flipped right and ... Read more..

Death List 2010 – J D Salinger

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Death List | 2 Comments »

Bollox. JD was on last year's list but I dropped him. His persistent reclusiveness meant it was difficult to determine his state of health, which is now poor, to say the ... Read more..

Ubuntu server static IP

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

Making the move, after about 5 years, from a Slackware server to the Ubuntu variety means relearning some commands which have become intuitive. For example changing a server's IP address from ... Read more..

iPad

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Tech Stuff | No Comments »

It's an iPad! Specs and pricing will be interesting. Mind you it looks unwieldy - see how small Steve Jobs is! Read more..

George Carlin’s 10 commandments

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Religion | No Comments »

Thanks to GrrlScientist for posting this splendid exposition of the 10 commandments by George Carlin. George was not much known in the UK but he should have been if this ... Read more..

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