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Yearly Archives: 2004
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You're probably familiar with 'Hello, it's your bank, honest, look we've got all the right logos and everything. Anyway, please give us all your details at plausible-address.co.uk@nastyaddress-concealed-by-having-it-in-hex.somewhere' fraud spam. Here's today's: Hello dear client Barclays Bank. Today our system of … Continue reading
Let's see, ignoring palmtops and computers that have never been the main one (a Lynx, a CP/M box with 8" floppies, a Mac, a QL, an Archimedes, a…) I've gone from two 4MHz (ish) Z-80s, one with 16k RAM for … Continue reading
… was a 2400 bits per second one: absolutely cutting edge stuff compared to the 300 bps ones or the 1200 bps from them to you but only 75 bps from you to them (!) of the previous UK standards. … Continue reading
We visited Richard in Cambridge this weekend. All of us were interested in the result of the BBC's best sitcom poll, but not wanting to face an hour and a half of Jonathan Wross, we watched something else… … and … Continue reading
File compare. Stolen Adapted from from Unix, it's been around since the early days of DOS. It allows you to compare two files, to see if they're identical, and if not, show the differences. In its early days, it was … Continue reading
The director of the Lovers' Guide series: "You don't really see, as a man, other men ejaculate, how could you?" (This was part of an interview that was part of the bonus material on the LG to Sexual Positions DVD.) … Continue reading
Front page: Pubs, buses are terror targets too Inside: your guide to the best London pubs. … Continue reading
It's here, in PDF form. I'm still in part 2, and it's clear that the mess wasn't just the direct result of trying (and failing) to wriggle out of living up to guarantees promised decades earlier. Marketing decisions throughout the … Continue reading
The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" lasts 2 min 11 seconds. Wagner's "Rhinegold" takes 2 hours and 35 minutes to make the same point. Still worth seeing though, particularly at ENO. I saw their concert version (= singers on a … Continue reading