Week redux
For those of you who know what I’m on about, I’ve mailed you about Saturday… For those of you who know what I’m on about, June’s trip to Milton is now being organised on my test wiki. URL in the email…
Birthday food
If you are reading this then it means you’re on the list of people I’d like to come to the Red House in Longstowe with me on Saturday the 10th April to help me lament my increasing age. If you are int…
Partial retraction and small apology
I feel that this morning, in the cold light of morning I ought to apologise to Joey for my previous posting. I will admit that I was sufficiently pissed off with the whole “Let’s abandon pragmatism in…
Debian votes on the status of non-free
Several people have been speaking about the current non-free vote going on in Debian. I feel that perhaps the people talking about it have been presenting a somewhat one-sided view of the issue and I …
YAMQ -- Yet another music quiz
Well, since Livejournal:nunfetishist’s music quiz seemed to prove popular, I thought I’d finish one I started a while ago when Livejournal:gerald_duck was doing them. Cut — The details Mine is …
EDS -- Why do we still hear about them?
In the UK, the Government have a terrible track-record for choosing effective ways to spend their IT budget. Commonly they hire a company known as EDS. Now EDS don’t exactly have a good track-record f…
Viruses
Just in case it passed people by… Netsky-b is on the rampage again. Here is f-secure’s information about it.
Irritated by thieving git
Someone calling themselves Kiri The Weiz decided that it would be a good idea to deep-link to an image belonging to a company Pepperfish host the website for. We take a dim view of bandwidth theft, bu…
Bloody bloggers
I happen to enjoy reading Planet Debian which is an aggregation of several Debian-related people’s blogs (including my own). Unfortunately lots of people whose blogs are included use “lightweight” or …