Memories

“They could have booked Cliff Richard. How boring would that have been?”

Anyone know anything about the bitrot characteristics of flash memory? Or where I can find out such information?

“Ok, put down your soldering iron, turn off your spectrum analyzer, and let’s play chess“

Binary systems

Tonight I headed (along with simonsatori and meme_me) over to a lecture at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy (CIA?) about binary star systems. We knew we were in the right place when we found a bunch of geeky types hanging around in the lobby outside the lecture theatre. The lecture was quite nicely presented, but […]

Do geeks dream of electric maids? A review from jwz – “Shouldn’t your autonymous robo-maid be smart enough to clean up every monday at noon while you’re not home?”

Aside from spotting jwz pondering the viability of SimKafka, what have I been up to this week? For some reason I didn’t really get into The Calling on tuesday – the music wasn’t lively enough, or maybe I wasn’t lively enough. It wasn’t helped by the presence of someone who brought back a whole bunch […]

CODEX STAN 223-2001 “This Standard applies the product known as kimchi, as defined in Section 2 below, which is prepared with Chinese cabbage as a predominant ingredient and other vegetables which have been trimmed, cut, salted and seasoned before fermentation.”

If you wanna use my washing machine, first you gotta buy the detergent…

“Hello, this is Comet home delivery, we went to your house but nobody was in so we’ve gone away again, please call us to arrange another day for delivery” Oh, ok, so this’ll be the 30 minutes notice I asked for. Having deleted the message in a fit of ‘I’m gonna cancel my order ‘cos […]

! THINK

I forgot – yesterdays travels around the roads of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire seemed to have a lot of IBM adverts, though I’m not sure why they’d be sponsoring red warning triangle signs, its not their normal big-blue image….there also seemed to be a running total of fatalities for each stretch of road, suggesting a game […]

Unwrapping the Chrysalis “We used the commercial tool IDA (the Interactive DisAssembler) [4] to reverse-engineer the binary. About 300KiB of the binary was 32-bit ARM code, 500KiB high-entropy data with some fairly regular structure visible, and the remainder was blank.”