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an ‘M’ book with no Culture ?

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Lonely planets: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1290570,00.html Nice Einsteinian physics in the excerpt, but it makes me uneasy as it has a bit too much of a…

reality gets another dose of star trek

PhysicsWeb – Glass breakthrough: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/8/9 Ok, so no whales this time, just transparent aluminium/aluminum… I’m impressed, but just want replicators !

hmm, are these stories related ?

BBC NEWS | Health | Prozac ‘found in drinking water’: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm BBC NEWS | UK | Blunkett defends terror secrecy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3545600.stm Perhaps they need to up the dose…

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/ An oft-quoted book which until recently I never realised was available on-line. So far I’ve reached Chapter 2 (taken 16…

adsl trigger date

Yay ! My exchange will go live on the 15th of December this year, which isn’t bad at all. Finally, the chance to get a proper service with…

on safari

I’ve only recently found out about the CSS attribute text-shadow after visiting Binary Bonsai (in Safari) and thinking it looked pretty neat, and then showing it to Nicci…

odd Powershot G3/OS X 10.3.3 movie file corruption

I’m not sure if this is a real problem or something I’ve managed to stuff up, but when I shoot both movies and still images on the G3…

music industry still not ‘getting it’

Gotta love this quote: …some labels are considering “bundling hit songs with other less-desirable tracks…” A practice that used to be called ‘An Album’. Obviously too hard a…

phew, sense at last

Ok, I’m biased, but at least someone with a little more mainstream credibility has wondered at Mr G’s recent KBE: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7784 I do hope that Mr Brown got…

canon makernote exif parser

Why this doesn’t get more publicity (or even merged with the original jhead source) I’ll never know. If you have jhead and want to know more about your…

how not to NAT

Due to a VPN at work, the desire to IPSec from home and a collision of IP ranges, I needed to use a different range for home. Don’t…

canon powershot g3

I gave in on Saturday and got a G3 with 256MB CF card from Digital Depot. What a very nice camera 🙂 No real gallery to speak of…

ipsec, ipfilter and corrupted mac on input

I’ve been having problems for sometime when transferring JPG files via 802.11 from my iBook to the Qube. The files can be sent via SMB or ftp, and…

rg58 cable and dab

Just in case anyone else has a DAB receiver (I don’t – this was done for a friend), you can use RG58 50ohm network cable for long runs…

friday ramblings

I got sent a link to this article which discusses the usage of Windows at Sun. I just had to pass comment… (Sorry Douglas). Reads like an account…