All along the BlogTower
31 July 2003
Update
19:31 Heh
"Microsoft. Because there aren't nearly enough clueless fucks on Usenet."
Let's trademark it before they do.
31 July 2003
Oh crap
09:49 Be afraid. Be very afraid.
There's been some reaction to this news in the Usual Place;
>OhFsck! Fsck! FsckFsckFsckFsckFsckFsckFsck!
>And next they'll "emmbrace and extend" NNTP.
>It's amazing how a whole #$%^& company can have Inverse Midas' Touch.
First they got their hands on email.
Now... Are you ready for usenet full of html ?
It was just a matter of time, they're running out of things to screw
up.
followed by
>Can you set up an NNTP server to reject HTML coded messages?
We're liable to be finding out before too long.
29 July 2003
Out by miles
12:14 What rubbish.
25 July 2003
Photographs, he asked him knowingly
15:17 Eye-candy. Not bad, the landscapes are worth a look, even if some of the rest is a little contrived (and yes, it's a work-safe link).
25 July 2003
we hatess bandwagonss
15:15 Those books are wicked and evil. But not for the reasons you might think.
25 July 2003
All software sucks
15:13 . . . but some sucks less. Article on the software that runs the Shuttle. Fascinating stuff.
23 July 2003
Thanks for murder
15:09 There is something distasteful about our leadership touting the deaths of the Hussein boys. Yes, they may have been Very Bad Men, but the glee shown by Blair is not becoming of a statesman. I guess the government will spin this as long as possible to try and distract us from the question that is yet left begging; where is the evidence for WsMD?
23 July 2003
SPLAT
13:55 I want one.
23 July 2003
mmmVulcanmmm
13:48 I want to see her fly again. And I also want better aviation web sites! Windows media player? WTF is that?
23 July 2003
Thirteen
13:46 Disturbing stuff, but if anyone was in any doubt about the horrors of the Holocaust they should read Pierrepoint. Extracts available.
17 July 2003
Avast!
09:16 You might be as surprised as I was to read that piracy on the high seas is as much a threat in the 21st Century as it was a couple of hundred years ago. I like the defence system you can buy for your ship, although I must admit were I the Captain of a vessel sailin gin at risk waters I'd be seriously tempted to carry (and know how to use) something a little less 'nonlethal'.
03 July 2003
Bah
14:36 Those of you who know me and my tribe should be worried about the latest acquisition and merger news. Kate works for one of the three companies involved. Fortunately she's at the Cambridge site, and we're praying that they'll not be losing many if any people - they've just been through a round of redundancies because of the BB/RT merger. Yeah, I know this is the way the industry has to move to survive, but hell, it's tough when you're in it.
03 July 2003
Coffeeee
14:28 Who pissed in this guy's coffee? Reading about an American talking about 'quality' coffee is a laugh in itself; then he claims to be a coffee snob and talks about purchasers of quality beans like Starbucks. Oh my. Excuse me while I screw my arse back on. What's more, his numbers don't add up. Never mind the out of context figures he bandies about, never mind that all the big producers of robusta have increased both production and market share (there are no losers in this brave, new world!), never mind that Star$$$$s makes lousy coffee (but their wifi is good, apparently) - his argument that Americans are leading the world in drinking more 'quality' (FSVO) coffee is bogus; 'speciality' coffee is on the rise in the US but is actually behind the global curve, based on his own figures.
02 July 2003
Hold the clone
15:10 This is the way the biotech industry is going, but it is with sadness - and yet hope for the future, that I see Molecular Probes is being bought by Invitrogen. (At the time of writing, neither company has updated their press pages.) MP is one of the good guys in this industry, and supply of lot of really neat reagents. Invitrogen have a lot of good stuff, but they do tend to suffer from BigCompanyItis. Fingers crossed, and to the guys at MP, best wishes for the future.
02 July 2003
Yeah, baby
13:08 I'd been wondering why Safari had been rendering some pages with teeny weeny fonts after upgrading to v1.0. Now I know, and I also know how to fix it:
defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitMinimumFontSize 9defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitMinimumFixedFontSize 9
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