four years
It was snowing four years ago. You don’t forget the first day in a new country.
View ArticleHappy Nuke Day!
Yup, Chernobyl was 20 years ago. Let’s just have a wee pause for a technology that’s still messing us up, yet we’re told it’s the green technology of the future. Yeah, and I bet it’ll be too cheap to...
View Articlein Aalborg
I like Aalborg. I think we’re staying in exactly the same hotel (the Scandic) as I stayed in 10 years ago with RES. We’re going to see some really big wind turbines tomorrow. Oh, and the Google Maps...
View Articledrinking with the wind
I didn’t go to the AWEA banquet last night, but did sneak into the GE Wind event (to which I was semi-invited) at the Andy Warhol Museum, and then on to the Clipper event (to which I definitely wasn’t)...
View ArticleWell, that was quick …
I started installing OpenBSD 90 minutes ago on the old Thinkpad, and that’s it done. When I get my static IP, I have plans …
View Articlemore sunflowers
For my mum, who didn’t believe that you could have multiple heads on the one plant: How it looked a few days ago.
View Article/dev/happies
Today is supposedly System Administrator Appreciation Day. Wouldn’t it have been better for it to have been four days ago? 24/7 has a much better sound to it.
View Articlemame is lame
I suddenly got a retrogaming jones on, and had a strong need to play Robotron. So I downloaded MAME and some ROMs, but no dice — every archive was missing files. Seems that to get the few games I need,...
View Articlesee, I told you ages ago
Trendy roof turbines are not as green as they look says The Observer. <smugness/> Paul Gipe has some thoughts on this: Rooftop Turbines: Rooftop Mounting and Building Integration of Wind Turbines...
View Articlevery, very old school
As I appear to have broken Catherine‘s ability to play Crystal Quest by upgrading her eMac to 10.3.9, I need to find an alternative way to run it. I remember running Basilisk II years ago on a very old...
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