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Big Garden Birdwatch 2010

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 birds. However it was still enjoyable and the results were pleasing. This year I recorded 13 species, of which the redwing was a new addition.

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Git

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 indeed missing a glove, he proceeds to tell you that he just saw the aforementioned glove fall from your pocket to the floor of [...]

iPad criticisms

This pastiche hits home with justified criticisms of the iPad.

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Travel

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 saw the hunter’s belt. Rigel, kai, Betelgeuse were bright and fun. Aldebran was attractive as was Theta 2 Tau.

I had dizzy fun.

Death List 2010 – J D Salinger

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 least.

Bollox.

Ubuntu server static IP

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 dynamic to static. In Slackware you would simply run the handy netconfig script and set everything there. You could also manually edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf [...]

iPad

It’s an iPad!

Specs and pricing will be interesting.

Mind you it looks unwieldy – see how small Steve Jobs is!

George Carlin’s 10 commandments

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 clip is typical.

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