I gave my “Adventures with OpenVPN” talk at ManLUG today, after a re-jigging of the timetable and several rewrites of my slides in S5. I’d been meaning to give a talk at some point because we haven’t had many speakers recently and I felt it was about time that I chipped in having been a […]
Busy, so very busy
As usual, I’ve been incredibly busy in the last few weeks, mostly working on ideas for my PhD and helping the run the various organisations which I’m involved in. My research seems to be slowly coming together, I have a vague idea of a framework which it should fit into and I’m reasonably confident that […]
R.I.P. Arthur C Clarke
Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 To my eternal shame, I have never read any of his books or seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I shall have to rectify that at some point in the near future.
Darling the Killjoy
4p on a pint of beer, 14p on a bottle of wine and 55p on a bottle of spirits.
Just to prove that I’m still alive…
…because sometimes people think that I’m not if I don’t blog, appear on MSN or update my status for over a month, here is a brief update on what I’ve been up to as of late. Friends of the Earth stuff is still taking up large chunks of my spare time, but I’m enjoying it […]
The Internet party
What Happens When Google’s Parents Leave Town for the Weekend? (via Jon) Absolutely hilarious, if you’re geeky enough to understand all the references to the sites mentioned in the clip. 🙂
Damn. Double Damn. Triple Damn.
I have just come across Finding and linking incidents in news, which appears to be a published paper on more or less exactly the topic that I’ve been working on for the last three months. Given that I have to make an original contribution to research in order to get a PhD, this really stuffs […]
New Year’s resolutions
I think these probably count more as spring cleaning exercises than resolutions in most cases, but they are things which I definitely need to do this year. Pass my transfer report: Some time in September/October (which isn’t that far off really), I have to justify myself to two examiners in my department in order to […]
Responsible behaviour
The latest xkcd (work safe) cracked me up this morning when I saw it in my feed reader (edited so that it will fit into my blog – horizontally it’s too long otherwise). N.B. For non-geeks, signing a public key of someone you don’t know is probably worse than sleeping with them, as everyone can […]
Voyage of the Damned
Or Robots of Death II, as so many of the plot elements seem to have been taken from this Tom Baker classic story. Still, it was an entertaining watch, with the usual Doctor Who magic, plenty of cultural references and satire. Kylie was much better than expected, much better than her appearance in Street Fighter. […]