New Year Honours List sees a knighthood for Terry Pratchett. Splendid. I’ve got a number of Pratchett-related items from Santa this year (latest novel, quiz book, folklore book etc.) and have been a major fan of his work for around 20 years. Oook, Sir Terry!

BOFHlet #1 painted a ceramic coaster with the Ubuntu logo for me for Christmas: of course, she used shades of pink instead of yellow/orange. Well, she’s 7 years old: what did you expect?

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, please read about rickrolling. Don’t you just find the recent batch of (UK) Christmas Number One Singles uninspiring? So let’s get Rick Astley to Number One this Christmas, thus playing the ultimate rickroll on all those X-Factor/Pop-Idol-buying drones. Download Rick Astley’s “Never… (read more)

Just a couple of random things… All Hardware Sucks. Amazon UK have started selling DRM-free MP3 downloads. They even include helper application packages for a number of Linux distributions. I see this as being a potentially dangerous cash sink 🙂 BBC’s Horizon had an episode about ‘Time’ the other night: excellent stuff, introduced by the… (read more)