I now have a proper job. My title says ‘IT Co-ordinator’ in shiny bright letters. It’s in Moorgate right in the centre of London so the commute isn’t too bad. I start on Monday. I’ll say some more about it when I’ve been going for a while and have made a few changes (like redone the website for starters). I can’t believe that I’m going to have money, and an Oystercard. »
A small and not entirely exhaustive list of processors (CPUs) I now own: 1x 800Mhz PowerPC G4 in my laptop 1x 733Mhz x86 Celeron in my Xbox 1x 270MHz UltraSPARC IIi 1x 125MHz MIPS in my Linksys router 1x 120MHz ‘network processor’ in my Squeezebox 1x 100Mhz StrongARM in my Psion Series 7 2x ARM of unknown speed in my Nokia 3650 (I’m assuming 2x as most smartphones have one processor for telephony and another for apps) I’m making this list becuase I’ve just got a Sun Ultra 5 for my birthday and because all of these are faster than my first PC, the Atari 520ST which ran at a mighty 8MHz on a Motorola 68000. »
Well, next time I upgrade my blogging software I’m going to have to move off MT. It’s been a good pacakge but it seems I don’t fit their customer profile anymore. tolstoy is hosted on a dual processor box and that’s something thad (madly) they specificly prohibit. Not sure why but it’s their perogative to do whatever they so wish with their software. This is just another set of users learning all over again exactly why software libre is good for everybody. »
So I’m driving up to Nottingham today in what some impartatial observers have described as ‘a boat’. It’s almost the biggest car I’ve ever seen, let alone driven, every time I get behind the wheel I’m psychologically leaving 2 seconds between action and reaction for the speed of light to transmit my orders to the back of the car. So yes, it’s an estate. A Ford Mondeo estate and if I never see one again as long as I live I’ll be happy. »
“nanoscale gold molecules travel 2.5 millimeters per hour through the olfactory nerves of squirrel monkeys” Solid gold trivia indeed. »
Here’s a video of Linus frolicking in the springtime sun taken all of 20 minutes ago on my mobile: You’re going to need Quicktime and the 3GP plugin (should come in recent versions I think) for this to work and even then it might be dodgy on IE. Thanks to this post on embedding 3gp in HTML for the info on how to do it. This is also one-upmanship. »
I am James Bond, mere milliseconds ago I finished the final level of Halo which in ordinary circumstances would be impressive but not really a cause for dancing. Further context can be provided: I’ve been trying to do it for two days now to ever increasing frustration; I hit the spaceship with 00:01 remaining. That’s right, one second remaining. The last section of the last level is a 6 minute drive and sprint through a full scale battle in a jeep to get the last ship off the soon to explode world. »
A couple of weeks ago I spent a thoroughly entertaining morning on the internet collaboratively solving the Hamlet Text Adventure with Mr Losowsky. It’s really rather good, filled with plenty of good literary in-jokes and engaging retro gameplay. This has to be one of the first computing things that really demands/takes advantage of the fact that I’ve spent most of the last 15 years or so studying the Humanities and thus I’m enormously happy with it. »
A limerick tribute to my sister Emily (yes this is creative payback for a bet that I lost): I once knew a hyeractive Goth Whose work was full of sloth She went to Kamchatka And read lots of Kafka Before turning right into a moth »
It’s so crisp and clear here, you can see for miles. Thousands of feet above the wind has shifted slightly and the circling area for Heathrow Airport has moved to a racetrack around our house played out at 10,000 feet. There are so many planes in the sky; ordinarily you wouldn’t see them at all but today. I can see four, five, eight jumbo jets. Thousands of people held up by an invisible hand. »