Work: What do people do to improve their motivation at work? I sit here and I stare at this code and I wish I was at home doing more interesting things. I need someone to donate enough money that I c…

So I bought a Wireless card to replace my broken Actiontec one… Dabs advertised this one has having Linux support and off I went and ordered it. It arrived this morning and seems to be a Realtek 8180 …

Cut — Hello Mr Python. (Geek stuff inside) So it’s a few days since I started out coding on Python. (Probably closer to a week really) and I have yet to have the epiphany promised me. Python co…

I’ve decided that I can’t afford the time or money needed to go to FOSDEM this year. It’s unfortunate but unless someone can give me about £200 with no strings attached (or at least no strings which c…

Cut — Big geeky thing about Python. Don’t bother commenting if it’s not relevant Righty, I’ve been hacking on the Debian katie suite recently. It’s written in Python for the most part and so I …

So this new W32/Mydoom.A@mm virus.. Why haven’t people learnt from W32/Swen.[AB]@mm yet? Cut — Email processing graph from Pepperfish On this graph you can see what happens when people get into…

Cut — Differences are what make us all interesting… Things said today on a talker… Differences are what make us all interesting… Things said today on a talker… CCCCC :XXXXX> If you knew me bet…

So, there were a few things which interested me today in the news… Here’s a redux: UK Student tells Blair debt is unacceptable A few questions are suggested that might be asked by a cloned child …

At midday today, I plodded off into Cambridge to visit Maplin, there-to-buy some bits of electronic componentry. Then, in conjunction with a bit of solder, some swearing, and a couple of op-amps kindl…