As I tend to be doing most weekends, I watched a few movies with some mates on Saturday night. Super Size Me (which UK trailers seemed to be announcing as "I, the Super Sized One", as opposed to the actual title which says "Yes, please make my order Super Sized") didn't impress that much. I […]
Hmmm, I was wondering why my Orange mobile wasn't working this morning ... thanks to el reg , I now know what the problem was ... *fume*
El Reg reports: "The latest [local loop unbundling (LLU)] cuts - on top of the reductions announced in May - should make it far more easier for rival telcos to install their kit in BT exchanges and provide services direct to punters." That's great news, especially since I work for an ISP who is investing […]
The latest twist in the hostage situation in Iraq, where people of various nationalities have been snatched by Iraqi insurgents and various demands made of their respective governments, is that it looks like one of the current demands is about to be met . Doesn't this sound really familiar? Anyone around my age will likely […]
For the last decade or so, I've gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I'd misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever […]
The Grauniad : [S]ince 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to "penetrate into or circulate within" the rest of [ Les Catacombes ] There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular […]
Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I'm no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison , formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just […]
BBC News is carrying a story about how, quote, " US gamers are switching off the TV and are turning to gaming on their consoles and mobiles ", unquote. I'd love to see how US gamers are playing their consoles with the TV switched off ...
If you're in Edinburgh right now, you should tune your radio to 106.9 FM to listen to Festival FM , featuring such luminaries as the mighty John Handelaar ! If you're not in Edinburgh, or can't pick it up (the reception down in Leith is a bit gash), fire up a web browser and listen […]