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Am I the only one who thinks the reason that everyone in the much-shown Kindle ad is on the first page of the first chapter (of the same book, too) is that in a few annoying black flashing 'page turns', … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
It turns out that it was in the Guardian's Let's move to.. series last month. Alas comments on that page are closed, otherwise I would be saying, yes, it was a surprise how good it is. We did get somewhere … Continue reading
Memo to self: when running a Python script, either put in a '#! /usr/bin/python' as the first line or have it as an argument to python. Don't run the script directly or it will be interpreted as a shell script … Continue reading
Lunchtime, actually, but today one of the lights in the cooker hood died. In the process of doing so, it clearly blew a fuse somewhere. Ah, the extractor fan isn't working now, so it must be something out of just … Continue reading
My Dear friend, This is confidential and I must not in any way go into full details about what brought us together in the past, but I want to use this opportunity to thank you for your Kind assistance when … Continue reading
I don't watch much TV, but my ghod the first episode of The Frozen Planet was stunning: the sort of BBC nature documentary where every frame could be made into a poster. … Continue reading
I don't often buy lottery tickets, but I did get one last night. As is my habit1, I set the results checker to look at the past 180 days and the random numbers I had last night would have won … Continue reading
Watch the highlights of the world road racing championship. … Continue reading
A while back, I bought a 5.1 sound set off boffer.co.uk. Although I couldn't use it at the time, it was cheap, at some point I'd connect it to the PC or DVD, and what could possibly etc etc 🙂 … Continue reading
As his PC has stopped working properly, it is clearly his fault that, when unpacked, mine didn't either. That turned out to be the PSU (all that was happening was that the CPU fan was making a pathetic attempt to … Continue reading