Memories

What if the highly recommended cafe you decided to take someone special to was closed on the day you go? What if you ended up walking all over town to find somewhere else? What if the place you chose served mediocre food in a smoky non-smoking area? What if you then couldn’t find coffee afterwards? […]

Better still, the retired 5-disk autochanger CD machine is back to life now – its wonderful what three years of standing on end gathering dust will do for broken electronics, sure the DAC is still substandard and the carousel action somewhat grating but it basically works as long as you don’t touch it while its […]

You stare at me like I need to be saved

By necessecity of having no funcitonal CD machines (except those in computers) I’ve just set up my record player – this one hasn’t rotted after years of storage like the last one did (I think, now, that it was just the drive belt but I didn’t consider that until after I’d bought another deck). The […]

Anyone got any recommendations for voice and/or video conferencing software or services? What do you use? Are there standard protocols? (H323/H263? VoIP?) Do I need to run a server? Or are they peer to peer?

A deeply flawed linux flagwaving exercise dressed up as a serious security analysis. Frankly I expected better from the Register – knowing the difference between GNU and Linux would be a good start.

Vampires? Classic rock? Topless? – Review

Pin time for Hitler “When we name new products, we always try to have an edge against our competitors. It was supposed to be a parody but we failed to pay close attention.”

ooo, the fun to be had – my thought: passports containing rfid giving out address information would make airports a burglars paradise. Do American passports currently contain address information? Ours don’t, do they? The UK passport office need an address to send the passport back to, or you can go to the office to pick […]

Can anyone recommend a veggie (ideally vegan friendly) restaurant in Cambridge?

Bug people – Gregor in Lego