What am I bid for 40 Pounds Assorted Nail Clippers? …and I wonder if they’ll fly them over here…?
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Anyone got any experience of this FPGA devkit, or anything like it? Worthwhile? Alternatives?
I’ve just been reading about cars. Every week there is an article in the local free paper about how many accidents there have been on the A14 this week. Three serious ones this week. Howcome? I mean its not a particularly unusual piece of road, is it? Its busy, true, but not otherwise exceptional. And what kind of accident do you need to have to close the road for 4.5 hours?
Then there was an article about speed cameras. Which got me thinking – if speed cameras really are placed at accident blackspots, then surely there will be a higher incidence of accidents among those who have just been caught on the camera. Is this true? Where can I find out information like that?
Finally there was a piece about the cost of running a car – where they reckoned the average cost of keeping a car on the road was around 5000 pound per year. Now, I know I’m not driving as much as I used to so my fuel costs are currently down on where they normally are, but I’m not spending anything like that on my car. Indeed, I think I’d be hard pushed to have spent that much even in the year I bought it.
Nano: video
Its a small world
(10Mb quicktime video, with potentially non-work-safe joke about there being plenty of room in the bottom…)
OK, I’ve got my stupid head on again this morning….I’m playing with samba, trying to edit perl scripts on my linux/apache server from my windows desktop, everything is fine except one thing[0], whenever I save from the windows box I lose the execute permission and have to go chmod it again before the server will run it. Is there any way I can get the ‘x’ to be sticky?
[0] two things if you count my inability to write perl – any book recommendations?
“My UPS truck went into a ditch and all I got was this lousy sewing machine!”
“The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.”
….I bet they’ll be surprised if anyone turns up…
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