I love pizza, and I really love pizza with anchovies. But our local Dominos (along with all of them) does not do Anchovies. So, first time I called I asked if they did them, and found that they did not.…
WoW WOW – The Guild
I had heard about this from a few sources before, but had not followed it up. This morning it was mentioned on The Instance and I followed it. The Guild is an episodic show that follows the online and offline…
Farewell Friend
Before christmas I was informed of the passing of a very good friend. I first met Paul Smith via his Bulletin board ‘raytech’ in the late 80s. Over the next few years we conversed daily via the board, and telephone…
It’s Jonathan Coulton day….
I finally decided to buy the complete (up to now) catalogue of Jonathan Coulton songs. He is the guy who brought is the fine ‘Code Monkey’ and the wonderful song from the end of Halflife Portals But, and heres a…
Asterisk the Gaul… *COUGH* sorry, PBX
This afternoon, I introduced myself to Asterisk Very interesting, and once you start playing with it, you start to realise its quite versatile. Hmmm, there is even Rails integration with RAGI. Nice.
Poems, Music, Daughters.
This morning, my daughter came into my office and noticed a piece of paper I have up on the wall. On this paper is a poem. ‘Abort, Retry, Ignore’ It’s a parody of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. So,…
It’s a mans world?
Nope. It’s a womans world. Anyone who says any different is deluded or lying. Don’t believe me? Ok, lets go through some hypothetical situations. Husband and Wife, wife wants to get pregnant, husband does not. She stops birth control and…
Everybody Hates Chris.
Well, I was watching the start of an episode of “Everybody Hates Chris”. Its the one with the Asteroids game. Well, am I right in seeing the screen display that they showed for a few seconds was actually a raster…
Wow, thats all I can say.
I recently got into using “Second Life”. I won’t say I “Play” it coz it aint really a game. There are no goals, no missions, no baddies (unless you can class the guy with a pushgun I “met” on my…
Escape Pod.
Escape Pod is a podcast site for short science fiction stories. Generally about a commute in length. They have some very interesting stories, including a podcast of “CrapHound” by Cory Doctorow. Definitely worth a listen.