If you knock the head of the statue of a deposed ruthless dictator in Iraq then that’s cause for massive celebrations. If you do the same thing in the UK then you get three months in prison.
Author: Dave Cross
Book Review
My book, Data Munging with Perl has been out for over two years, but the Programmer’s Bookshelf column in Dr Dobbs Journal has finally got round to mentioning it. And they like it. A lot. For example, However the book is not really about Perl. Instead it is about data, and paterns that occur repeatedly… Continue reading Book Review
Snow
Snowing? In April? The weather has gone really weird.
Whine Rack
We’ve been talking about getting a big wine rack for… well probably years. And yesterday we finally got round to buying one. Like just about any piece of storage that you buy these days it arrived in a flat pack. So being the alpha-male type (hah!) I decide that I’ll put it together last night.… Continue reading Whine Rack
Propaganda Goes Both Ways
Just in case you were thinking that I was only interested in the propaganda that it coming out of the US and UK war machine, here’s something from the Iraqi information minister. There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah… Continue reading Propaganda Goes Both Ways
Molesworth at Hogwarts
Ho For Hoggwarts! (via Ben Hammersley)
Teenage Lust
So Sixteen Year Old Step-Daughter comes to stay for the weekend. Bringing with her Boy Who I’m Just Good Friends With. “Oh, of course you are” we agree, tongues dripping with heavy sarcasm. But it seems that she’s right. They are just good friends. The only person who doesn’t seem to know this is BWIJGFW… Continue reading Teenage Lust
Incontinuity
Please pardon a sad fanboy moment… One of the (many) things that I really like about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the way the internal continuity is carefully maintained. Characters often refer to things that happened in earlier series. I was therefore very disappointing to see a major continuity error in the episode I watched… Continue reading Incontinuity
The Secret Tube
Don’t tell anyone, but the Central Line is working through the centre of London again. It’s been out of action for 68 days – since the derailment on January 25th. I was a bit worried as it was apparently going to be a cutdown service this morning so I was expecting the trains to be… Continue reading The Secret Tube
The First Casualty of War is the Truth
On March 21, the day after American and British troops began their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, an “embedded” CNN correspondent interviewed an American soldier. “I wanna get in there and get my nose dirty,” Private AJ said. “I wanna take revenge for 9/11.” To be fair to the correspondent, even though he was… Continue reading The First Casualty of War is the Truth