Anyone with a pair of pliers can install Red Hat on a toaster or a motorcycle… it takes a real (sick) geek to install Linux on a dead badger.
Kind: Notes
Girl, 15, Charged With Child Porn Offences And Sexual Abuse Of Childen
Not the usual kind of story I link from my ‘blog, but this particular case is of interest because the girl in question is both the perpetrator and the victim, so to speak: she posted pictures of herself online, performing sexual acts. From what we can gather, she did this of her own free will and consent.
Read more on The Register. No word from the BBC yet.
Plug ‘N’ Pray
Looking to change your religion using an easy, clean interface? Try Plug ‘n’ Pray from Holy Corporation.
A site well-worth reading.
Picnic Time
We’re off on a picnic! Bryn, Claire, Paul and I are making sandwiches and we’re off up Pen Dinas to scoff them and watch the sunset. Which is nice.
It feels like springtime.
Dissertation Poster Session Two
The second poster session for my dissertation is today. This will involve me standing in front of a board in the Llandinam concourse with some pretty pictures and explaining them to people.
This also brings home the realisation that my dissertation needs to be handed in in just a month’s time. Still got many, many thousand words to write. Gonna be a busy Easter.
Dan, A Vamp Babe, And A Tarantula
This picture just appeared on the new May Ball site.
Yes; it’s me, tied to a wooden board by a vampire babe, stripped of my tux, and being scampered around on by a tarantula.
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PHP 5 RC1
Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I’m writing with it could be considered the same…
Warning: May Contain Cars
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I had a thought yesterday afternoon, and I found it funny, so I drew it.
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Okay, so I was bored.
God [humour]
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Well; I’m glad he cleared that up for us.
Snow! Again!
It’s snowing! Again!
Apparently it’s going to get as low as -7ºC on Sunday. And some fool has a BBQ-on-the-beach planned.
Will post more when I find the motivation.
Lion Cut?
Work, Work, Work…
…but at least I made some progress today. Heaps of work done. Good stuff.
Plus, managed to squeeze in some research that I’ll need for later in the week.
And, better yet, my colleague Phill left his mobile at the office tonight, so I’ve reprogrammed his operator logo from it’s old one (the O2 logo) to a more fitting one (the word ‘codemonkey’). He’ll guess it was me. But who gives a shit, eh?
Hugz and kittenz, everybody;
Congratulations, Paul – It’s A Beautiful… Kitten
Wow. I’ve found an internet radio station dedicated entirely to remixes of C64 music. Go tune-in!
The Internet Is A World Of Ends
Got a spare quarter hour? I think you should go and read WorldOfEnds.com. It’s a fascinating and concise analysis of what is the nature of internet, and why why should stop making mistakes with it.
It’s not geeky – it’s philosophical.
Safer Internet Day
Today is European Safer Internet Day.
Does that mean that all those idiots who fell for the MyDoom virus (which, of course, required you to open a ZIP file inside the infected e-mail, the run the program inside it – yet still became the fastest-spreading e-mail virus to date) are going to actually plug their brains in for once.
If you got infected by MyDoom, shame on you for your stupidity.