Staring at the C

Charlie Brooker on the BNP party political broadcast: Nick Griffin’s first line is “Don’t turn it off!”

Is it really this ugly?

I really hate the word “friend.”

Apparently applications should be prepared to lose 60 minutes of data to work around the file system now.

It’s a shame that it’s basically impossible to compete with Amazon when it comes to online book selling, because their website is so horribly awful to use.

Nicholas Nethercote warns us against atol().

I’ve just watched last week’s episode of this series, Heston Blumenthal’s Victorian Feast.

If you were thinking of trying to use CentOS 5.2’s tomcat packages: don’t.

Well this makes no sense: Me: “Hi, your letter said I needed to arrange a visit with you to check the gas safety of my flat.”

Somewhat unpleasantly, I’m a vague acquaintance of a couple of holocaust deniers (in the sense that I’ve been in the same place as them once or twice).

cdfrey: the fact that you’ve disabled JavaScript in your browser automatically qualifies you as irrelevant for anyone designing a modern user interface - sorry.

If you have a blog, and you ask questions in blog entries, have some way to leave comments, won’t you?

Installing Firefox in an OpenVZ container can make you lose /dev/null OpenSolaris sleep(1) needs the network to be up People are injecting foreskins into their face Dubai is really screwed

You might think that recording and then splitting it into separate audio files based on silences between each track would be easy to do - sadly not.

After dealing with more code that gets it wrong I was reminded of the numerous reasons why openpty() is such a broken API.

I was bored so played around with Review Board a little more, including installing it myself.

My favourite Wondermark for a while.

I read my work email with mutt on a Solaris 9 box.

I’ve only just read the XML-RPC spec.

Talk about unnecessary.

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I think atheists and believers alike should agree to abide by the Advertising Standard Agency’s decision, when it comes - agreed?

After sitting through Expelled, I felt the need to cleanse my intellectual palate.

Yes, it’s a pointless end of year list!

My previous blog post described how to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a Solaris dom0 under Xen.

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They’re using the phrase “a sense of” even more than they used to.

Dear America: well done.

Argggh!

“People don’t like being preached at.” !!!

I’m not sure why this loathsome stuff is so much in the news these days.

I had this problem recently: I was generating automatic VNC passwords via /dev/urandom, and needed to obfuscate them.

Since I can’t vote, I may as well trivialise the election by laughing at McCain say things like “Obama’s supporters are saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately.

I've recently been figuring out to build OpenSolaris ISOs (from SVR4 packages).

They’ve finally invented wireless power.

Vote obstruction may yet decide the outcome of the US election.

Why aren’t there any headache tablets in the jungle?

After Habitat stupidly stopped selling the storage I was using for my records, I finally found something suitable for the size of my flat: These are i-cubes.

I’ve never paid anything like this kind of attention to US politics before, and I’m most certainly not alone.

I finally conceded and set up mutt at work to be able to read HTML email.

What the hell are they thinking?

Can you please hurry up and actually release a decent A4 e-book reader?

I can’t quite get over how arrogant his talk was.

As I just noticed on the TV advert: Universal Pictures will release a special sing-along edition of the hit movie musical Mamma Mia!

Oi noi!

Dave Stewart’s American Prayer makes we wish I was a Republican[1].

Things I never expected to read in a prominent Intelligent Design blog: Sorry if I’m offending anyone but these people disgust me.

In March of this year, a customer wrote, “I have attached a Word document that describes the problem.”

For those wondering how on earth to access an underlying real device when PulseAudio is enabled (yes, both alsamixer and pavucontrol only show one mixer control - brilliant!)