http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp Wibble and stuff... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while ago, I acquired a G4 Cube off Canterbury Freecycle. Having tried to install Tiger and Leopard on it (all the PPC media I could find) and neither working, I decided to try Ubuntu. As it's rather old (2001) and doesn't have much memory in it (128M) and is ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2010/03/13/ubuntu-910-on-g4-cube/ Today, the VOSA released data pertaining to a Freedom of Information request from the BBC detailing the rates and reasons for vehicles failing the MOT Test in the UK There's a rather interesting report on the content of the data on the BBC news site but the only way to download ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2010/01/13/mot-test-data/ They're at it again. When will they learn that people (well, some people) will not roll over and let their civil liberties in a "free nation" be eroded away? Sent to my MP today: Dear Julian Brazier, My apologies for taking up yet more of your time, however our Government seem to be leaving ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2009/03/14/when-will-they-learn/ Yesterday I made something new (for me, anyway) as a kind of experiment (I seem to have been doing this a bit recently) with some Lamb's Heart (this comes in nice and cheap as people don't tend to want to buy something they can identify... usually about £1.50 for three ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2009/03/09/pan-fried-lambs-heart-with-white-wine/ Last week, we spent some very damp days near Poolewe in the Highlands of Scotland. There is plenty of picture evidence available here. The week went, more or less, thus: Friday night: Drive from the Deep South to Inverness via Tebey and Stirling -- the A9 is a fantastic road ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/10/05/scotland-and-mum/ Benjamin Daniel Slowe was born on Friday 16th May weighing 9lb 13oz. I've set up a webalbum for you to oggle :) http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/19/benjamin-daniel-slowe/ According to a Canterbury City Council press release: Famous Victorian engineer Robert Stephenson will be at the Museum of Canterbury this Saturday (10 May) to chat to visitors and enlist their help in a series of fun experiments. Well, who'd have thought it... a man who died in 1859 will be receiving ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/05/reincarnation-lives-in-canterbury/ See xkcd for more time wastings :) http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/05/02/bacon/ Sent to BBC Comments today regarding the new style on the BBC News website... I may be in a minority, but although my screen may be 1024x768, that is not the resolution at which my applications run. I often (nee all the time) have many applications open at once and the most efficient way ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2008/03/31/bbc-news-site-redesign/ My current webhost (Dreamhost) seem to be trying out (maybe even moving to) Thumpers from their traditional NetApps. Thumpers are (up to) 48 Terabytes of storage in 4u... that's pretty amazing really. This has had the slightly annoying side-effect that the .snapshot directory has disappeared meaning user-driven restores aren't possible on ... http://www.mafoo.org.uk/wp/2007/12/17/thumpers-at-dreamhost/