Running Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, based on Debian GNU/Linux) means this system doesn't come with Arial 'built-in'. Hooray. Except that for a while, some web pages in Opera in particular have displayed oddly here: some of the sans-serif fonts … Continue reading
Despite visiting Paris about ten times in the past few years, I have never been to the theatre or opera there. For the former, it's because my French is nowhere near good enough to cope with anything except perhaps mime. … Continue reading
.. but I have finally copied posts from LiveJournal/Dreamwidth to lovingboth.com. It turns out that the official LJ importer doesn't do comments (I suspect something's been changed since it was written) which is a bit annoying but does at least … Continue reading
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
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