Years of learning, innumerable cleansing rituals and hours of final meditation had brought him to this. He rose from the grass mat as the manifestations faded and began his trip to the altar, draped …

Apart from sounding like a strange ’70s prog-rock band, the title of this posting actually has something to do with random numbers. As some of you are aware, the company I work for has produced a smal…

It’s been a long time since I did any Debian work. Last login: Tue Jan 10 11:38:14 2006 from haddenham.pepperfish.net<br>dsilvers@merkel:~$ date<br>Sat Feb 7 15:12:13 MST 2009<br>ds…

This weekend I took the plunge and got an android based phone (The T-Mobile HTC-manufactured G1 in black). Unfortunately it turns out that the man in the shop lied when I asked if it would work with m…

As you are no doubt aware, assuming you’re not living under a tech rock, the Internet Watch Foundation has recently blocked access to an article on Wikipedia on the premise that it depicts child porno…

Rob and I recently purchased a CnM Minibook from Maplin. We found it to be somewhat lacking in source code and Rob has been working on this. He posted an explanation and call for action to his blog. P…

I’m sorry that this has taken so long to post, but here is, at last, the promised summary of the answers I received in response to my question about licences. If any of my attribution links are wrong,…

I have, at several points over the past few years, been interested in finding out quite how the GPL applies when one has runtime dynamic linking in the mix. As such, I would like to set a little scena…

This year, after 12 months of trying, I have finished my ESCape. With my new-found freedom I shall be separating files. I expect my husband Rob will be rebelling after his year of SUBstitution as he t…