The EU has to back up its threat with action, and soon. The verdict is not so different to that of the US DoJ. But the eventual outcome of that case proved the DoJ toothless – where are they now? Now the EU has a chance to prove to the…
Saturday…
So, England out. Wayne Rooney to be vilified in the press no doubt – and poor penalties from Gerrard and Lampard too. If only they could have played the first 90 minutes like they played in extra time, it might have been a different result. But – Murray puts out…
it's all geek to me
After a conversation with recently I got to thinking: what do all the letters of the Greek alphabet represent? What is their canonical meaning to me? Here's the result of my thoughts. α (alpha) : A quite buggy version of software. β (beta) : A prerelease (but not so buggy)…
impressiver and impressiver
It’s been at least 4 hours since my last post about Linux, so it’s time to relate my latest Ubuntu adventures. I’m well impressed. A few weeks in to using Ubuntu, and everything’s still rosy. Everything still “just works”. Sound, webcams, iPod, automounting, everything that (I’ve learned over the years)…
Superman Returns
Pretty good. Plenty of scenes remade like or reminiscent of the original(s). Good special effects. The plot and or pacing was a bit uneven though; it just started to get interesting and it was over. Oh and Sir Richard Branson makes a cameo as “Shuttle Engineer”.
Dungeon Fun
I escaped from the Dungeon of Elbeno! I killed Greatbiggary the arch-demon and Linca the kobold. I looted the Wand of Linux, the Armour of Mathematics, the Sword of Kinepela, the Dagger of Trivia, the Sword of Unicycling, the Sceptre of Open Source and 89 gold pieces. Score: 114 Explore…
Superman Returns
I shall be seeing Superman Returns* this afternoon, courtesy of work. That's worth a couple of hours even if I have to pay $2 for parking. Oh and apparently Brandon Routh is the new gay icon. *Link removed – since when did IMDB start using interstitial ads?
A strange storm
Last night I was awakened at about half past midnight by either Mrs Elbeno or some thunder, I'm not sure which. At any rate, there followed over the course of a few minutes about 6 or so flashes of lightning and accompanying thunder. The storm was less than two miles…
The backups worked
20 DVDs' worth, all correctly restored. Yay.
The essentials
I’m coming off the back of another Windows install, so I now have a directory containing about a CD’s worth of software – the essentials for installation on a clean system. In alphabetical order (from my folder listing): 7-zip – for dealing with .zip, .rar, and all other archives. nVidia…