Couple of interesting news snippets I spotted today: Was amused to read this story where a woman had a heart attack and was saved by “a plane full of cardiologists” on their way to Orlando for a conference. I also note with interest that Tim Berners-Lee, the bloke who effectively “invented the web” (not the… (read more)
Couple of unexpected and rather good presents this year – a ‘freezing tankard’ being the pick of the bunch. You put it in the freezer and a layer of liquid inside the sides and base freezes:
The US military’s NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, apparently, but that doesn’t make the acronym NORAD) are tracking Santa again this Christmas Eve. You can keep track of Santa’s current whereabouts via the Santa Tracking Radar. As I type, he is in New Zealand. Let’s hope those nice chaps in the US military don’t… (read more)
All presents duly wrapped by 2100 hours on 22 December. That’s more than a full 48 hours before Christmas and probably constitutes a personal record. 😉
Had a discussion this afternoon about finding a suitable graphical front-end client, to run under Windows, for the database Postgres. This is a project run by my “assistant”, ‘cos he’s had more experience with serious database admin than I have. Initial plans were to use the data access part of OpenOffice but that didn’t work… (read more)
I know I said I wasn’t going to do this, but … As an experiment, I’ve switched on “comments” for this weblog. According to the web server statistics, a fair number of people actually read these ramblings of mine, so it would be interesting to see if they have anything to say themselves. I am… (read more)
And we have yet another major security hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer. And this one’s fairly easy to understand and almost as easy to exploit, which is bad news for anyone who uses IE. Basically, IE can fool the user into thinking that it is showing Site A, when in fact it is showing Site… (read more)
Idle musing … a “month of Sundays” is about 7 months (assume month has about 30 days, so you need 30 weeks to get 30 Sundays). And “once in a blue moon” is a little rarer than that. A blue moon is the name given to the second full moon occuring in a calendar month… (read more)
Some more interesting search terms that people have used in Google, which resulted in them coming to my site … “metadata embarrassment”; “make mozilla firebird default browser”; “nativity desktop pictures to install” (trying this one myself in Google shows my site appearing on the eighth page of the search results – this person must have… (read more)
So why has nobody ever told me about Partition Image (partimage) before, then? Just discovered it today – mindbogglingly useful. Especially being able to load and save the images (using compression and SSL) across the network. Making an image of each user’s desktop installation so that it can be quickly re-imaged when they mess it… (read more)
