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As a text-mode browser it's just that little bit better than Lynx (my old favourite), but I found its graphical mode today, and once I fix a couple of little niggles I'll be hooked. Really, nowadays you can only be stubborn and use text-mode for some really simple browsing.  Try using Google text-mode: the search part … Continue reading Links is my new favourite browser

Part of Christmas celebrations here, the twice-yearly trip to the roof (once to install them, once to bring them down) was commenced this evening. Maybe if you're really lucky there will be photos on the gallery!  Actually, they look quite good.  This year a Santa silhouette is a new addition to the usual coloured and plain lights.  

This is a little weird (only a little, you say?).  "Music to watch a plane crash by".  Indeed.It seems that sometime (possibly in 1998), NASA did a CFIT (that's Controlled Flight Into Terrain, aero-speak for "a good and working plane bumping into the earth for reasons other than safe landing") test using what looks to my untrained eye … Continue reading Plane crash testing footage set to music

Well not really, but how many reasons would they have to take a cat and toss it around in one of their zero-G experimentation platforms (colloquially known as "vomit comets")?Not 24 hours after creating the "Stranger than Fiction" topic here and wondering if I'd ever find anything to post in it, I stumble over this.  Look … Continue reading USAF trains zero-G feline attack squads

I can't promise you bleeding-edge updates from the LKML, but if I hear about something funky you'll see it here soon afterward.

Undaunted by previous false-starts, I'm making another attempt at this weblog doo-dad.A lot has gone on in my life of late; this is fairly common knowledge.  I am finding it necessary to keep better track of what goes on, not just in working life but also at home.  So, I'm making yet another attempt at a chronicle … Continue reading Here we go again!