nourishing obscurity

The above diagram shows IT professionals on the left and normal people on the right. Bear with me and I shall explain- Before taking my computer to the shop for its ‘tune up’ I decided to set up the old machine with a WiFi connection to my router. Oh bugger! “Information technology”? Has to be [...]

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This is the word from inside the camp: With the wind picking up, the decision was made to come in and Outteridge, who was at the helm, attempted to ‘‘bear away’’ – a nautical term for turning around with the wind, Mr Outteridge said.  The catamaran, capable of speeds in excess of 70km/h, was executing [...]

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Much as it sticks in the craw to admit the AC72 is not seaworthy and yet to insist the challenge must go on, this is the political side of human nature saying the show must go on but the designer side knows, deep down, that these things are unworkable. An example is the Orma 60 [...]

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Sigh: SOME of Britain’s leading scientists are in revolt over the election of Prince Andrew as a fellow of the Royal Society because of his “over- colourful” past and lack of a scientific background. They have objected to the Royal Society’s use of a ballot paper that only allowed them to vote “yes”. The Duke [...]

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Did you see this: The Mozilla Foundation has accused UK software group Gamma International of falsely associating one of its products with the Firefox name. Finfisher is a legitimate surveillance software thought to be used by governments to covertly obtain data. It is installed unknowingly by its target computer user, often by disguising itself as [...]

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Stoopid Tall, A 14-Foot-Tall Bicycle

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When some people talk of ‘tail’ others might take offence. It takes all sorts. But this is what I call a nice bit of tail and nice everything else as well. Beautiful lines on that. What curves. A nice pair too. In fact two pairs ! A real goer ! But gone now.

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Pardon me while I smile: And yet scientists have assembled a nearly airtight case that the majority of the matter in the universe consists dark matter, a substance which is both intrinsically invisible and fundamentally different in composition than the familiar atoms that make up stars and planets. There are two elements here:

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El Reg has what appears to be the last [technical] word here: Doubtless there will still be some Reg readers thinking, “Ah, but they would say that, wouldn’t they?” So take it from writer and airline pilot Patrick Smith, author of the Ask the Pilot blog, who explains that even if it were possible to [...]

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To the rescue.  You’ve obviously been considering your break into action movies but can only drum up £50 000 or so which will get you one camera plus the fare to the locations.  How to do those action shots so de rigeur in this sort of movie? The answer is here via haiku – the [...]

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Click pic for story.

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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Why must they tinker and interfere? There was something about a 2.1 version of a programme being better and it does hold true.  The new product needs test running, they iron out the bugs, 2.1 or 3.1 is usually the pinnacle, thereafter, everything is tinkering for no good reason. Google’s gmail became very good – [...]

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Chuckles sends this: For certain reasons, building in wood is very much on my mind just now and the idea of a wooden bicycle is nice. These are the sorts of things which keep a person alive and in good cheer.

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