Sunday, May 04, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
Friday, September 07, 2007
Shoot first, then ask questions?
''Obviously, it's a huge priority for us to capture and kill bin Laden and bring he and the rest of the leadership to justice,'' said Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend
Surely there ought to be a trial in there somewhere? Not that I think Bin Liner is innocent, you understand.
My real worry is how many British troops will be "collateralled" in the process.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
An interesting opportunity?
The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.
History seems to be stuck on repeat, again. One of my first tasks in my first IT job was to write programs and scripts that did automatic file format conversions. The programs were in BASIC, on DOS systems. In the next place, I did similar things using scripts on Sun machines. AWK is still one of the neatest things around, if you know how to use it. Maybe soon I will stop being unemployable...
History seems to be stuck on repeat, again. One of my first tasks in my first IT job was to write programs and scripts that did automatic file format conversions. The programs were in BASIC, on DOS systems. In the next place, I did similar things using scripts on Sun machines. AWK is still one of the neatest things around, if you know how to use it. Maybe soon I will stop being unemployable...
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Vista costs double in the UK.
Vista is a rip off if you are in the UK.
You are expected to be stupid enough to pay almost twice what Americans pay for it. Are you still too stupid to move to Linux? It really isn't any harder to run than Windows, with all its horrible problems.
You are expected to be stupid enough to pay almost twice what Americans pay for it. Are you still too stupid to move to Linux? It really isn't any harder to run than Windows, with all its horrible problems.
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