Someone in my office had a visit from the ergonomics police earlier this afternoon. I’d been feeling fine, but having half-overheard their conversation I’ve been getting all sorts of psychosomatic twinges in my back and wrists.
Peepill Who Look Evilll
Steve Bell on top form (as always) today. And a useful link to an archive of Steve Bell cartoons.
Hacker Logo
Eric Raymond is proposing that hackers[1] adopt a logo. It’s the “glider” symbol from Conway’s game of life. [1] By which he means hacker, not cracker.
Cannabis Downgraded
MPs have voted to downgrade cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug. The changes in the law will come into effect early next year.
Cinema Overload
I’m contemplating a cinema overload on Saturday. I reckon that with a bit of planning I can see Holes, LXG and Kill Bill all at the Streatham Odeon one after the other. Of course, with it being Nov 1st I should be working on my NaNoWriMo novel, but I can just postpone starting on it… Continue reading Cinema Overload
Imploding Tories
As the Tories argue amongst themselves about which of them is best suited to lead the party into oblivion, I can’t help remembering what I wrote last December.
Strike-breaking
I crossed a picket line this morning and I feel really guilty about it. I had a couple of postal packages to pick up to I went down to the sorting office at 8am to find that it was closed due to industrial action. As I walked back I passed the picket line and one… Continue reading Strike-breaking
Dodgy Visitors
Over the weekend I installed Webalizer on my web server so I can get pretty pictures of the stats on all of my web sites. Looking at the results, it seems that one of my sites (and it’s a site dedicated to genealogy) has had some very interesting visitors.
Congestion Charge
There was a predictably negative story about the congestion charge in yesterday’s Evening Standard. For something a bit more upbeat see the same story in today’s Guardian. The actual press release from TfL is here.
Barclays, Lombard St, Nigeria
I’ve just got Nigerian spam that claims to come from Barclays in Lombard St, London. I suspect that postmaster@barclays.co.uk might be interested in this.