Back home
Got back today from a wedding anniversary trip to Chicago. More tomorrow.
More issues
UK Net access
BBC News article: Net access comes as standard.
For the first time, UK internet access is being included in the telephone services that all customers should get as standard. The new guidelines also demand that BT and Kingston Communications give all customers this net access at a minimum speed. Users
Florida Bunny Massacre
There is a sharp shooter taking out rabbits at Miami International Airport. Apparently the bunnies are a danger to planes, because of the turkey vultures that their corpses attract. I'm pretty sure the link refers to the right incident. The shooter taking the bunnies out is the uncle
Bwah?
The Java site is down. Java.sun.com is down. I finally have a really good reason to upgrade to JDK 1.4.2 and the whole benighted site is down!
JDK 1.4.2 introduces the Preferences API, which gets you away from Properties objects and into a whole
Digital Quilt
Rachel is creating a digital quilt of thanksgiving. I've just sent in my square:
The full quote is:
<blockquote
Habakkuk 3: 17-19
Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce
Feline Alarm Unit
A while back, I wrote about the Feline Alarm Unit. Someone made my day by writing to complain about his feline alarm not operating as advertised. Read and enjoy!
Alan Quartermain
H. Rider Haggard created the prototype for Indiana Jones: Alan Quartermain. Haggard was a British writer, born in 1856, died in 1925, two of the Alan Quartermain novels he wrote are The Lost City of Gold and King Solomon's Mines, which was made into a film with Richard
Changing the world
From Philip Gerard's "Writing a book that makes a difference"
If you had the power to instantaneously change one thing in the world that didn't affect you personally, what would it be? Why would you change it? What's the most eloquent argument
New music
Does anyone know any compilations of Arabic electronica besides The Rough Guide to Arabesque?
Wireless access sofa
Happy Fourth of July!
I'm blogging from the sofa. No wires, no nothing, except the occasional crackle from the speakers when the laptop talks to the wireless box upstairs. Totally painless install on my part, because Hubby did it for me, including the part where two blue boxes