SOPA for Brits
So, Wikipedia is shutdown today. Reddit, ICHC and a large number of other sites will be showing their irritation at SOPA and the concepts surrounding it by joining them in going dark for...
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Magic Trees, Level II
A while ago, I invented a concept of “Magic Trees”, named after the story of a vicar who chopped down a 140 year old tree and justified it by saying “A paedophile might...
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Freedom of Cycling
So. I was checking my comics this morning (Or the important ones right now, which are Narbonic, Schlock, QC & S*P) when I saw on the latter an advert for FreeMesa.org, an organisation...
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We three things
I am going to Maelstrom for the hotest weekend of the year (Not that there’s a hell of a lot of competition). How would you like your Aquarion: baked, boiled or fried? For...
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Advert
Since I appear to have forgotten to do this entirely, and I really did mean to: If you’re looking for an ADSL provider with Actual Real People on the other end, that doesn’t...
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Warbussing
I went Warbussing today. Warbussing, soon to be the next big event in the weblogging/interweb world, involves, having finished todays episode of CSI (the husband did it) turning on Airport as we swish...
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Short Notice.
There is a very special level of hell reserved for hosting companies who issue the 72 hours notice of planned downtime at 11:30 on the saturday of a bank holiday (ie, Long) weekend....
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Wikipedia as spam validation
So I recieved an interesting piece of spam today: Interesting, because it uses Wikipedia as a reference point. My first thought was that they had edited the Wikipedia page on their particular field...
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The RSS Problem
“All those icons” says Dave , “Where will it end?” He then goes on to describe a system that is as overcomplicated as it is reliant on his own OPML spec. Jeremy thinks...
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Steamed
Yeah, you wait a week for an entry and then two come along at once I also bought Half-Life 2, because there never existed a universe where I didn’t. The game is amazing,...
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