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 at 2am
Arrive at Inverness at […]
See xkcd for more time wastings
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 1024×768, 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 to know what’s going on […]
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 some of their servers (the […]
I would have emailed this to them, but no email addresses are available on the corporation’s website and, when resorting to guess work, customer.services, customer.service don’t work. I then tried postemaster@morrisons.co.uk which also bounced. This is, in itself, against the requirements of having a mail system on the internet. Anyway, this is what I was […]
With reference to this BBC news article about some boys aged 10 to 12 being hauled before the Old Bailey to answer charges of Manslaughter…
What were they doing out and in a position to do something like that without parental guidance/observation?
The age of criminal responsibility should be at such an age as to when […]
So, today was the day I had scheduled to upgrade our ageing WebCT 6 system to the latest version.
Four hours into the upgrade of the first of three updates I needed to apply, the following error is produced:
Installation error. com.webct.platform.installer.InstallerException: Unexpected error executing [webct_stat.sql]. ORA-04021: timeout occurred while waiting to lock object WEBCT.WEBCT_STAT
Great.
So I […]
Just a notice to say I’ve had a ePetition accepted on the Number 10 Website regarding the application of Digital Rights Management — the ability for software and hardware to decide if users are “allowed” to do something: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make DRM and associated technologies illegal in IT hardware […]
Sunset over Whitstable Bay
Originally uploaded by fooflington.
Went for a walk last night during the calm between downpours and got this set of pics of the Sunset… Autostitch is amazing
US laws invading privacy all over the shop! How dare they?!