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.
Author: Dave Cross
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 :)
Tru Calling
I watched the first episode of Tru Calling today. It seems to be a combination of Early Edition and Six Feet Under with a dash of Run Lola Run. That makes it pretty interesting, but I think that the writers will have to work hard prevent it getting repetitive. I’ll be watching for the next… Continue reading Tru Calling
Craig Shergold Film
While browsing my digital program guide today, I noticed that at at 18;50 this evening Sky Movies 6 is showing The Miracle of the Cards which is a film based on the Craig Shergold story. Looks pretty dreadful so I won’t be watching. But if you’re really bored this evening…