From a recent BBC Have Your Say (as pointed out by spEak You’re bRanes). dont blame buisineeses for exploiting the cheap labour if the imigrants cant be bothered to learn english they have pnly themselves to blame ,in any country if you want to succeed then the first rule is to learn their langusge, every… Continue reading Oh The Irony
Pop Quiz Answers
I’m really surprised that no-one got the first question. Wikipedia had all the information that you needed. Question 1 (the easy one): What connects Queen’s “Sheer Heart Attack”, Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy” and Emerson, Lake and Palmers “Brain Salad Surgery”? Notice that I didn’t say that I was talking about songs or albums.… Continue reading Pop Quiz Answers
Balham Community Church
This might come as a bit of a surprise to some of you, but I don’t think it’s necessary to ban religion. Of course I believe that it’s all completely pointless and that people who follow religions are completely wasting their time. But wasting your time isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’ve wasted more than… Continue reading Balham Community Church
O’Reilly Interview
I’ve been interviewed by O’Reilly UK for their new blog Scenius. Apparently, I’m the Techie’s Techie. Which is nice.
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…
…that the media was full of articles that started “It Was Twenty Years Ago Today“.
Many Days Later
The perils of downloading the new version of Fedora on the day that it is released! Anyway, the release notes are online. What are you waiting for? Go get it. Update: It actually took about 18 hours. So I’ll be able to start playing with it on Sunday once the Perl Teach-In is over.
Pop Quiz
Because a conversation on IRC just reminded me of one of them, here are my two favourite pop quiz questions. Feel free to answer in the comments. People who were taking an interest in music in the 70s and 80s may have an advantage. Question 1 (the easy one): What connects Queen’s “Sheer Heart Attack”,… Continue reading Pop Quiz
Creation “Museum” Opens
The Creation “Museum” in Kentucky finally opened its doors to the public yesterday. There are some photos here. It looks a real hoot. I’m almost tempted to go and take a closer look. It’s not, of course, a museum by any meaningful definition of the word. The Times article, unfortunately, has more than its fair… Continue reading Creation “Museum” Opens
BBC Programme Credits
I’m a bit behind here, but I was just catching up on some newsgroups[1] when I saw someone mention Charlie Brooker’s Guardian column from a couple of weeks ago. In it he points to the BBC’s latest guideline for the production of programme credits. Basically they are laying down a far stricter set of guidelines… Continue reading BBC Programme Credits
Cyber-Stalking
If you live in London, then Rachel would appreciate your help. Update: The story was covered in today’s Sunday Telegraph