October 2008
It's your choice
Yesterday I saw an extraordinary thing. It appears that the top rated video on YouTube is a simple 1 minute 55 second message from an Iraq veteran entitled Dear Mr Obama and it has attracted more than 11 million hits.
What I find disturbing about this is that here we have a young man who having been through the horrors of an Iraqi combat zone and seen first hand the consequences of Bush’s...
Vote Suppression: How they do it
squashed:
Your vote is very important. At least, it’s important that most people act on that belief. Elections frequently come down to who can get the most supporters to the polls. Similarly, by election day, the organized campaigns will know which precincts are likely to support them and which are likely to support the candidate. They will also know how new registrants are likely to vote. So if...
Palin to shave Beaver on TV →
BBC NEWS | Americas | Death at show fuels US gun... →
WTF!
BBC NEWS | Europe | Man's arm trapped in train... →
I know I shouldn’t laugh but ……
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone... →
I’m just glad it’s not my tax dollars that are being wasted here.
Just goes to prove the old saying about Military Intelligence being an oxymoron
Sunday is a funday!
devteam:
Devteam closer to iPhone 3G unlock
Not long now :-)
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent... →
If the US believes that regime change is a justifiable reason for invading a foreign country then, on humanitarian grounds alone, this is a justifiable case. It won’t happen of course, Zimbabwe doesn’t have any oil and isn’t a predominantly Moslem state. It’s just a country with a vicious insane dictator at the helm who allows his own people to starve and encourages his...
BBC NEWS | Business | Audio Slideshow: A guide to... →
policomm:
Audio Slideshow: A guide to the credit crunch
My Dad, the Switcher: Day Zero →
insertname:
(not my dad)
I should think not, I’ve been writing s/w since the early ‘80’s and been a Mac user since ‘93
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Woman in jail over... →
It’s good to see craziness hasn’t stopped with the banking sector
McCain vs Democracy
To evade Russia’s veto in the UN Security Council McCain has proposed setting up an alternative body: the League of Democracies.
Does anyone else see the irony in his proposal?
Make a Faraday Cage Wallet - Wired How-To Wiki →
Now where’s that tin foil?
UFO files | Newly released files from The National... →
We are not alone
“I don’t do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don’t assign apps to files....”
“The Macintosh may only have 5 % of the market, but it is clearly the top...”
“Never ask a man what kind of computer he drives. If its a Mac, he’ll tell...”
3G Update
devteam:
We made some significant 3G progress this week.
Here’s a screenshot of a 3G iPhone whose baseband has been modified. And even though it’s modified — and fails the integrity check — it’s still running. Can you guess where the patch was made?
Running modified baseband code is a very useful ability, but it’s still not possible to accurately estimate how close we are to the ultimate...
In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You →
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A dangerous place to be
Yesterday I learnt the hard way that The Middle East is a very dangerous place indeed. Not because of terrorism, or crime, disease or traffic, but because of the lack of education, care and simple common sense among the low wage immigrant workers brought in to build and service this place.
I walked into the training center as usual, turned into the corridor leading to my office and WHAM, next...
Re: "I miss my 4 year old Nokia, already."
marco:
gtmcknight:
Was forced to reset the software on my iPhone today because iTunes wouldn’t recognize it. I’ve been using the wall outlet to charge it, so there’s no backup. I have to start ALL OVER.
This is why I say everything (tech-wise) sucks. Macs, PCs, iPods, headphones, cell phones, iPhones. I’m not anti anything, but just saying that I could never be a fanboy.
“I was using the...
policomm:
What’s happened to the ‘Food price crisis”, price of oil, climate change, pension funds, African poverty, Iran, Iraq? boring? insignificant?
Well let’s see, if I was a cynic I’d say…
Food prices only affect the “poor” Oil price came down Climate change too far in the future Pension funds - what pension funds? Everything else…..”not my...
Sun, Sand, Sea and ......Work
Well I’m back in Qatar and back to work. If anyone wonders what I do then the answer is that I’m a Flight Simulation engineer. Nothing much changed while I was away, things kept on working in general, the technicians I left behind seem to have picked up the job reasonably well and I’m actually beginning to wonder what I’m doing here. I think it’s going to be a very tedious two months, but it’s...
Complaint #296
whitewhine:
“Thanks, Wall Street. You killed my mutual funds and now I have to take the kids to the Bahamas instead of Aruba. We’re not even staying at Paradise Island!”
-Whine by Mel
That’s just soooo unfair
BBC NEWS | Business | US debt clock runs out of... →
BBC NEWS | Europe | Italians 'turn water into... →
They can come and do my plumbing anytime…
A brave new world
I have gone beyond being ‘slightly miffed’, I have in fact gone beyond being ‘somewhat peeved’ and I find myself rapidly approaching the ‘bloody furious’ stage (you may need to ask your local friendly Brit to explain this to you).
What, you may be asking yourselves, could be causing such a ruffling of the Old Brit’s feathers. Well the answer dear readers...
Is this Palin creature for real?
Just remember, considering McCain’s age, there is a real possibility of her becoming POTUS, to the rest of us on the planet it just doesn’t bear thinking about.
Bloodletting
I went for a blood test this morning. Now this may seem like a minor issue to most people but those who know me will know that I have what amounts almost to a phobia about needles. During my days in the RAF I was unfortunate enough to twice be called upon for ‘crash guard’ duty , this is an extremely unpleasant duty which involves guarding the site of a ‘plane crash and collecting up the body...
Girl fed school staff hash cakes →
…and staff were only “disappointed”??? What were they expecting - Crystal Meth?
What's Your Tumblr Number?
insertname:
lee:
geoweasel:
justin:
webmarc:
travors:
joelaz:
Tumblr assigns a sequential number to each site on their service. The lower the number, the older the site. To find your number, login to Tumblr, go to the Following Page, then click on the name of your site in the top right corner of the screen just below the “log out” link. Now, look at the URL in your browser address...
September 2008
Woman Wearing Cow Suit Arrested →
shoddywiring:
lumber:
really. it’s too early for halloween lady