Just read a brilliant post on Scott Adams’ blog. Here’s a quote: It occurred to me recently after having surgery for my deviated septum that lots of Al Qaeda members must need that same procedure. When Amnesty International finds out that we gave free medical care to prisoners, that won’t sound so bad. And yet…

I’ve just found another blog about Linux and OSS. It’s more generic than the other Linux blog I link to (that one is more about Linux system administration); this one is more about what’s going on in the Linux world. It did have a cool link to a Wiki Guide to Linux Games, which I…

Just thought I’d better write a quick post to let you know what I’ve been up to this week, as I haven’t written one so far… Monday night, I didn’t do much. Tuesday night I went round to Philippa’s for dinner. Last night I didn’t do very much. Tonight I’m going out to my weekly…

Just found a great site: horsman.co.nz (‘Humor’ section). Check out particularly Small Ads from the UK and How to Fail an Exam… brilliant!

Ok then, time for the good ol’ “The Weekend” post. On Friday night, I stayed in and worked on a conversion script for Matthew’s Blog. About 11PM, I went to Tesco with Philippa as we felt like going on a late-night shopping trip (like the old student days!). On Saturday, I had quite a lazy…

I have updated the Open Source section of the site. Yes, I know, I’m very sad – I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night! Philippa and Luci have gone onto campus for karaoke which isn’t really my kind of thing… everyone else seems to be at the CU house party. So I’m…

I’ve been quite enjoying this random ‘fortune’ program I’ve got on my computer. I’ve installed a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ quotes pack, as well as Futurama and a couple of others. Some of the jokes in there are… well, like this: After Snow White used a couple rolls of film taking pictures of the seven dwarfs, she…

I have a program on my machine called “fortune” (if you’re using Fedora Core and want to install it using yum, it’s called ‘fortune-mod’: yum install fortune-mod). Basically it means that every time I type in ‘fortune’ at the command line, it comes up with a ‘fortune’, or a funny quote or something like that.…

If you use Fedora Core, or another system that uses “yum” to update packages, you can set it to run automatically every day / week / month (or even hour, if you’re crazy!) fairly easily. This is slightly different to the documentation on the Fedora website, this method is a bit more customisable. Firstly, use…

Just a quick note to say that this blog and website is now published under a Creative Commons license. This means that you can do what you like with what I do here, provided that: (1) you don’t use any of it in a commercial work, or (2) you don’t modify it or create any…