Nick Richards — Nick Richards

i’m ok, you’re ok. »

monday: Pasty tuesday: Pret wednesday: Eat thursday: Bakers friday: Wildcard! all handily on strutton ground. »

this is not a hack, this is not an arg (although thanks, next time it will be), this is a server upgrade. »

<tolstoy> reimage dapper WARNING! This command will wipe your disc and start it from scratch. You should be sure that any data you want to keep is backed up elsewhere because you will not be able to get it back after this operation. If you are very sure this is what you want to do, type the following sentence exactly as printed, including punctuation, then press enter. My machine is tolstoy and I want to wipe it and lose all my data! »

And we’re back in the game. »

I popped into the Tate for a little bit today because I’d seen that Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet was on show and I really wanted to see it after reading this recommendation by Dan Hill. Wow. That’s very good art. Immersive on multiple levels, beautifully pitched in ebb and flow, truly creative. It’s the sort of thing you’re supposed to feel (note: not just see) more in art galleries. If you can, go. »

Dear Richard Branson. Whilst I am pleased to see that you’re spending $3 billion on combating global warming you may wish to look at how difficult one of your companies is about to make it to save energy and still remain within the terms of use. Following a number of complex manoeuvres NTL (my ISP), Telewest and Virgin Mobile are merging and relaunching as Virgin Media. As such in the latest bill we received a handy booklet with new Terms and Conditions enclosed within a very Virgin branding. »

Work is excitement. »

For all of last year I forgot to update the date in the sidebar. This is probably significant. As such we’ve skipped a year. Yay. Probably I spent the time when I should’ve been pushing bits eating surprisingly tasty British food or becoming outraged at the Christian-Industrial Complex. That last article is actually amazingly good and I highly recommend that you read it, not least because it saves me writing down a lot of the stuff I’ve been talking about for the past couple of years »

Saracens had an ecstatic night at Vicarage Road with a bonus-point victory over Northampton which took them to fourth place in the Guinness Premiership and stirred up memories of the days when they were serious contenders for the title. Indeed. »