All Change
Posted: Sun 24 July, 2005 Filed under: General Leave a comment »The weekend’s involved a lot of moving around – the office at home has moved into the second bedroom, so that we’ve both now got desks and the like. Of course this has also meant moving computers, and the bed out of the bedroom and in to the garage for a while ’til we get a decent second bed for the (smaller) new second bedroom.
All fun – and of course sorting out a wireless network etc. as well as everything else really made life fun.
Still, it’s all done now, and everything seems to be (so far) running smoothly. No-one is more amazed than me. *grin*
Shuttle
Posted: Sun 24 July, 2005 Filed under: Geeky 2 Comments »At some point in the next couple of months, I’m going to be building myself a new PC to replace the creaking 1Ghz Athlon that I’ve been using for the last three years. The intention is for the new box to be pretty quick, and fairly close to top-spec in the stuff I need. This doesn’t include shit-hot graphics card, as I really don’t play games on it, or anything that seriously needs top-notch graphics.
I’m thinking also that I’m going to go for a small form-factor, and probably use a Shuttle box rather than the hefty great tower box form-factor.
So what I want to know is this : has anyone else been using one of these, and are there any issues I should beware of?
Flipflops
Posted: Sat 23 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 6 Comments »I have to say, I’ve decided that I really fucking hate the current fashion for wearing flip-flop type shoes. It’s the noise they make as people walk that really grates with me, that sort of sloppy scraping noise because the shoe doesn’t come of the ground properly, and instead just scrawps along the path.
I can’t see how they’d be comfortable to wear for a long time either, but there we go, that’s just me.
Grrr.
The Big Question
Posted: Fri 22 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 1 Comment »The BBC asks “how can you make the Tube safe?“. The true answer, when taking into account that you’re dealing with individuals is “you can’t”.
In the end it all comes down to luck.
Shot
Posted: Fri 22 July, 2005 Filed under: News, Thoughts Leave a comment »It’s hard to know what to say about the man shot dead by police in London today. Was he a terrorist planning another explosion? We don’t know. Was he “acting suspiciously”? We don’t know.
In fact, we know so little – and, I suspect, nor do the police, or anyone else – about why this happened. Personally I find it worrying that there are armed officers on the tube (and thus likely out of radio contact with the Outside World) who are prepared to shoot to kill on this basis. But then again, is one death better than several, had there been an explosion?
It’s hard to say.