Feb 28
Yesterday saw the change in penalty in the UK for driving while on a mobile phone.This will doubtless cause a surge in the sales of various handsfree kits, bluetooth headsets etc.Cue collective hand-rubbing of technology providers. It struck me that there is a far better solution to this. If every mobile manufacturer used the same connector then car manufacturers...
Read MoreFeb 23
Inspired by the ongoing CSS travails of ManicMorFF, I decided to try a little CSS tinkering with the blog template tonight. Not everyone’s idea of a quiet Froday night in, I grant you, but I find it all strangely relaxing. But only if it works, if it doesn’t work I become an incandescent ball of rage and bile.* Obviously, you would have a good argument...
Read MoreFeb 22
Not done a photo blog post for a while. The dark and dreary Scottish winter tends to keep the camera in its bag. Anyway, it emerged into a lovely weekend in the West. There is a large selection of the shots from that weekend on MorgueFile. Here is a smaller taster, all are links for download...
Read MoreFeb 22
Many years ago, I attended a conference in Amsterdam. I knew one of the people presenting so, a week or so before I warned him that I didn’t want his presentation to feature of the words ‘leverage’ or ‘synergy’. When the day arrived, before he started, he got me to stand up in front of the assembled throng and declared that his...
Read MoreFeb 13
I’m an atheist. Its not something I generally shout or pontificate about, atheists tend not to, as pointed out by Richard Dawkins in the marvellous The God Delusion.I’m not here (yet) to go off an any particular anti-religious rant, I just felt the urge to point out something that occured to me recently. Evolution has done some pretty daft things. Which...
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