The other thing I didn't post about was pondering over whether or not to watch the Nick Berg execution video. On the one hand, yuck. (Understatement!) On the other, to misquote Jagger and Richards, "Who killed Nick Berg? / When … Continue reading
US soldiers in Iraq must also be asking themselves 'who' and 'are they worth it' as well. Brits will remember the fuss about UK soldiers not having the best equipment when the war in Iraq started. Well, US forces in … Continue reading
If you're a Lewisham parent, wondering what's happening to your appeal regarding secondary school places, I can tell you. (Ok, I know none of you are, but just imagine…) The Royal Mail has taken about two weeks to deliver a … Continue reading
You may know that Outlook 2003 – MS's email etc client – has, at last, a spam filter system. Using 'state-of-the-art technology' too, natch. Someone's analysed how it works. And guess what? Not only is it crap, as in really … Continue reading
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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