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 only a 450MHz G4 (slow!) [...]
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 me little choice but to [...]
Benjamin Daniel Slowe was born on Friday 16th May weighing 9lb 13oz.
I’ve set up a webalbum for you to oggle
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 guests next weekend at a [...]
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Rays
Originally uploaded by fooflington.
Near Culnacraig, Highlands looking towards the Summer Isles.
Really like how this one came out (after tweaking a bit)
Gravity Defying Pebbles
Originally uploaded by fooflington.
One of my recent personal favourites.
No, I didn’t stick them there
Well, after some pottering around the hosue today we went to the beach - lots of *huge* waves - it was great fun! Foo was sitting on the beach with his (old still) camera as is his wont when he spotted something bobbing in the water.
I swam to get it and Lo and Behold it [...]
Over the past couple of years there have been at least two (well, two that I can remember) cases of prosecutions of Dangerous Driving being brought against police officers.
Both of these cases have involved a highly trained officer driving a new car on an M class road at night very fast (in excess of 150mph).
Road [...]