Month: June 2008
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Eat Bertha's Mussels!
On the way back from Geek Night at Rory's, saw the following bumper sticker:
A little googling places it as belonging to a restaurant in Baltimore. But it caught my attention on the way back through Aberystwyth tonight, so I thought I'd share it. Perhaps the marketers among you can learn something from this compelling … -
ICANN Invent A Whole Universe Of Mess
In case you hadn't heard/didn't care, ICANN have authorised the creation of arbitrary privately-controlled top-level domains. So what does this mean?
Well, the happy hippy theory fun about it all is that suddenly there's the capacity for pretty much anybody (well, anybody with a particularly deep wallet, and - for now - a demonstrable business plan) … -
Oh, To Be Quoted Correctly
/mopes/
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Talking About Suicide - A Revelation
"Asking about suicidal feelings cannot 'put the idea into a caller's head.'" If you've ever worked in a listening organisation that will openly talk about suicidal feelings, like a branch of Samaritans or a university Nightline, you're likely to have heard this said. In virtually every training group to which talking about suicide is first …
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Firefox 3 "Download Day"
Downloaded your copy of Mozilla Firefox 3 yet to help them make the world record? I've been using Firefox 3 since the early betas and I've got no qualms about recommending it wholeheartedly. The awsomebar is simply that: awesome, the speed and memory usage have become far better than the previous version, and the care … -
The Beer Is Breathing
Hurrah! I feared for a while that the yeast I'm using might have died (either of old age, or of being kept in our utility room, which alternates between being very warm and very cool), but when my latest homebrew beer started breathing this morning, I knew that everything was going to be all right.
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An airlock bubbles as beer brews
I've just set off a new batch of homebrew. The yeast was a little old, and I was concerned that it might not still be alive. But just a couple of hours after adding it to the wort, here's the evidence that it's breathing!
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Enter The Ninja
So, like a handful of others, I'll be participating in Andy's Ninja Burger game tonight. He's asked us each to throw together a character - or at least to look at character generation - so here's mine:
Name: Ava Kurosawa
Job Title: Driver
Qualities:
Average [+0] Ninja
Average [+0] Driver (just because he does it … -
Vanilla Sky, A Letter, And A Trip
VANILLA SKY
Perhaps Vanilla Sky wasn't the best choice of film to finish Troma Night last night on, based on the dream I had:
I dreamt that I was dreaming, and that during that inner dream I became lucid [not so hard, actually, and something I periodically do normally]. In the inner dream, I'd broken my …