The rest of the photos from the Lakes visit are now available here, if you want to have a look…
Archive for October, 2004
Lake District Photos (Update)
Sunday, October 31st, 2004Not a baby on board
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Wanna buy a car?
Monday, October 25th, 2004My punto is up for auction at ebay…
Cutting me own throat, know what I mean? This motor is a bargin, geezer! Best lay a bid on it sharpish me old mucker….
Netscape, jwz and Microserfs
Friday, October 22nd, 2004Netscape was ten years old recently. It seems amazing that something so bizarrely world-changing is so recent; it seems like such a long time ago that I first set eyes on the pulsating “N” icon.
In the slashdot article above there was a link that caught my eye – from the web site of Jamie Zawinski, one of the original Netscape developers. It was from a diary he wrote while writing the UNIX version of Netscape and makes for very interesting reading. It reminds me greatly of Microserfs – one of my favourite books, as you can see from my reviews page… and you can read an extract courtesy of Wired.
Lake District Photos
Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
The Lakes while I was on hols last week. More photos to come in the next week or so…
Best complaint letter ever?
Wednesday, October 20th, 2004This is the proper way to complain, especially about TV licencing people who I’m sure we all hate.
[note: very offensive language, do not read if you are easily shocked or if you are my parents.]
Hampton Court Puddle
Thursday, October 7th, 2004
Pillows
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004Bit late notice but if you work in central London you may still have time to get to the Flashmob Pillow Fight…
One of my colleagues from work was looking for a pillow online and found
this – isn’t the internet wonderful?