Sorry for not posting – I’m just so busy with my day job I can’t spare the time for thinking through new posts properly. Tim Worstall has a slightly different concern: what happens when newspaper attacks could mean a blogger … Continue reading
Just when you think you have a few days to spend on some more interesting things, something blows up. Part of my emergency work has been upgrading a remote server from FreeBSD 5.5 through 6.0 to 6.2 – remotely. Think … Continue reading
Stephen (1135-54) is one of the least well known, and least well loved, of English Kings. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle said of his reign: Men said openly that Christ and his saints slept Stephen shares with John the distinction of … Continue reading
In a moment of pure genius, Jonz put a piece of prose from Lenin’s Tomb, as usual explaining how everything is George Bush’s fault, through the AOLer translator, which converts normal English into that of a 12 year old internet … Continue reading
I know this is just an echo chamber post, but via lgf I am awestruck by the decision to invite a holocaust denier to holocaust memorial week. Step forward the Muslim Student Union at UCI: Musa openly supports Palestinian terrorists … Continue reading
Business as usual: System administrators will have to prioritize between updating Exchange and DNS servers while leaving equally important server and application updates dangling, experts say.Microsoft has released patches for 19 vulnerabilities, 14 of which are critical, hitting at holes … Continue reading
… I hear the sound of senior policemen starting to weep, softly. They like graphs. Copperfield: A reader tells me that at the time of the shooting [to death of a police officer] (6am Sunday 6th May) there were a … Continue reading
More cartoon fun from the Religion of Perpetual Outrage: The county jail where a Christian minister handed out anti-Islamic cartoons announced it will hire an imam for its Muslim inmates. The Rockland County Jail also said it will provide religiously … Continue reading
There’s evidence of systematic and effective medicine in Egypt a millennium before Hippocrates: The research team from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at The University of Manchester discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC…[...] “When we compared … Continue reading
My first night camping in Alaska, twenty six years ago, I heard what sounded like an express train coming through the woods outside my tent. It stopped suddenly, and there was quiet again. Then a rustle. Then quiet. For maybe … Continue reading