It's interesting to see that other people are giving their filesystems interesting names. I myself have gone through a whole bunch of names on various machines, and their names almost offer an insight into how my TV viewing habits have changed over the years.
I'm really not sure I'd want smells forced on me during a movie. I can't really explain why but it would bring the whole thing from being a window on another world (with video and sound) to that movie world actually seeping through into reality.
After upgrading my beloved UltraEdit-32 to UEStudio '05 some way through last year, I began noticing that if I copied text from that program into, say, a text field in Firefox, £ signs would become œ signs. Other characters were also affected.
Shan from "noise to toaster" posted this entry about a new joint musical endeavour by Greg Kurstin and Inara George. I'm a bit of a fan of Inara George's through her work on Grey's Anatomy, so I figured I might as well mention it, although I haven't yet found the spare bandwidth to download the […]
The BBC is reporting that our esteemed transport secretary Douglas Alexander is up for national tolls on trunk roads to help "combat congestion". The article makes no mention of the direct benefit to people who will start being charged even more for necessary journeys. I'm already paying more than enough on taxes to the government […]
So in this week's episode of Stargate SG-1, "Insiders", the writers/producers decided to change the duration of a Stargate trip again. Throughout the original movie and the early years of the show, it clearly takes travellers and most obviously MALPs 8 or 9 seconds to get from the SGC gate room to the other end. […]
A mate of mine from Uni lives in Nottingham with his family. A few weeks ago, he found a tiny article in the local Evening Post about a proposed new Uni campus. Well, we all sort of knew that was coming, and it goes some way to explaining the deserted Uni-owned wasteland opposite Jubilee on […]
Every so often, someone pops into #mIRC on EFnet with a question that has been answered many times before. So I keep fragments of code handy, ready to post back into the channel every now and then. But then I got to thinking… wouldn't it be cool if I had an URL to send people […]
My installation and integration of WordPress is going fairly well so far. I have to say I've been vaguely impressed with the solidity of the whole application, despite some annoying quirks. For example, most of its information-returning functions default to echoing their result, rather than returning them. This is bad coding. Also, there is a […]
Forum spam. We all know it's a problem. The introduction of Visual Confirmation ('CAPTCHA') mods seemed to fix this problem, at least to those of us naive enough to believe we'd be safe forever. I've been noticing for some months now that on the Newark Hall JCR forum, spammers seem to get by the Captcha […]
