I used to love being in the Drill Squad at 10 Flight AIRTC. It might seem strange to some people for a kid to want to give up his spare time to wear a uniform and march around a parade ground but I really did love it. We got to carry rifles and there was
Category: Stuff
Happy 2008!
Wilma stayed with us on New Year’s eve and she was a very well behaved little monkey. In the morning we went for a walk along the river before Jonathan and Louise collected her. In the afternoon we had our traditional Afternoon Tea on New Year’s Day, although this year it was at the Lanesborough
Rise of the Machines
MoD sends Skynet satellite into orbit Seriously. Don’t they know what happens at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th?
Remember, Remember
On the weekend we went to a CCO party at Hywel’s place and, it being (nearly) the 5th November, fireworks were involved. Alan had originally planned to bring just a few sparklers along but once he got to the firework shop he couldn’t resist purchasing a small arsenal of rockets, roman candles and something that
Rube Goldberg
I’ve just got back from the fourth straight (long) day down at the colo and this is about all my brain can handle at the moment:
Napoleon Dynamite
I just watched Napoleon Dynamite. I was expecting the usual crappy teen movie (a genre I kind of like anyway) but it turned out to be a genuinely entertaining film. The film has a plot so thin it’s barely there but the real interest is in the characters. The eponymous Napoleon Dynamite, played by Jon
Me as a Simpson
The Simpsons Movie opens next week. There has been some great promotional activity for this film including transforming a number of 7-Elevens in America into Kwik-E-Marts selling Squishees and Krusty-Os and a doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset. On the Simpsons movie site you can create
Zen ADSL
I just found another good reason to like Zen ADSL. I logged into my customer portal and discovered that I can change the reverse mapping of my static IP address through a simple form on their website. I’ve been using Zen for years now and I can’t see myself changing in the near future. Certainly
Bad customer service is everywhere
Guy Kawasaki blogs about how he was charged by AT&T for a DSL service he never ordered and had to go through customer service hell to try and get it canceled. His experience sounds familiar. The iPhone is released in the States today and the only network it is available on is crappy AT&T. My
Mac Zealots
Apple have just released minor updates to the MacBook range. I only bought my MacBook a month ago so I guess I’m a little annoyed that I just missed the update but the upgrade isn’t really that significant; a slightly faster CPU and a bigger hard drive, basically. This guy, on the other hand, is