When I first saw The Da Vinci Code in bookshops I was very interested as I love all that conspiracy theory stuff about the Templars, the Holy Grail and the early christian church. It’s over twenty years since I first read The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and I still like to read a… Continue reading The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dave Cross
Old Bands
Bugger. I completely forgot that tickets for the New York Dolls gig at the Royal Festival Hall went on sale yesterday. And now there are only a small number of really crap seats left :( Amd while we’re talking about dodgy old bands, my stepdaughter went to see Hawkwind last night. She’s about the same… Continue reading Old Bands
Hal-An-Tow
Hal-an-Tow, jolly rumbelow We were up long before the day-o To welcome in the summertime To welcome in the May-o For summer is coming in And winter’s gone away Ok, so I wasn’t _actually_ up long before dawn, but you get the idea. Happy Mayday everyone.
l33t h4xx0r
Because of my usual circle of friends I sometimes forget that the world is still largely populated by people who regard computers as magical artifacts of a most mysterious nature. This was demonstrated recently when I was at a clients site. Everyone in this company is really Not Technical. They were having a problem with… Continue reading l33t h4xx0r
Topicality is Important
I have a Google News Alert set up so that I get an email whenever Google finds a news item about the area where I live. Yesterday I got an email that rather shocked me. It mentioned two men being shot in the head just round the corner from where I live. I was shocked… Continue reading Topicality is Important
World Wide Web
Sometimes I wonder if people really realise what “WWW” stands for. Surely “world wide” implies that everyone should be able to access your site. Not just people who use one particular browser on one particular operating system. The one particular browser is, of course, Internet Explorer and the one particular operating system is Windows. In… Continue reading World Wide Web
Only 1000 Songs
A survey published yesterday says that most people have no more than 1000 songs stored on their computers and that therefore portable players that store 5000 songs are unnecessarily large. See, to me that sounds a bit too close to the famous quote (usually attributed to Bill Gates) that “640 Kb should be enought for… Continue reading Only 1000 Songs
Racist Helping Racist
Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French Front National, is apparently in UK where he will address members of the British National Party. Isn’t the idea of two nationalist and racist parties from different countries working together more than a little ironic?
50 Books
I’ve just seen that on Live Journal there’s a community called 50bookchallenge. The idea is to try to read 50 books in 2004. Weird to think that there are people who would find reading 50 books in a year to be a challenge.
New Job
It seems I have a new job. From Tuesday 5th May I’ll be a Senior Perl Programmer working for Outcome Technologies. If I go a bit quiet it’s because I’m a lot busier :)