Month: April 2008

  • Watching Grass Grow

    Every now and again something floats past that I feel I really must mention. One of those is a website by an enterprising American who allows you to watch his/her grass grow. Watching Grass Grow Got nothing else better to do? So, err… enjoy! Black Xanthus

  • Hiroshima: A Thriving City

    Hiroshima Today is a thriving city in Japan. It contains everything you could possibly want to find in a modern City. I don’t know what it takes for a city to pull itself up by the bootstraps like that, and get it’self back on it’s feet, and rebuild. I had, probably like many people, imagined…

  • Visual Blast Radius of Nuclear Bomb

    Ever wanted to bomb your home town? This site will allow you to do just that. You can quite happily drop any size nuclear bomb on your town and see how much of it is left. http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16 Guess what? there’s not much of it. The smaller bombs are just enough to take out just the…

  • The Local Liberal Democrat Website

    I was browsing the book of face as a friend of mine is want to call it, and came across an advert by our local Liberal Democrat Candidate. So surprised was I to find it, that I went looking for the advert. Then I clicked on it and followed it to the website. What I…

  • No Female Bishops for the Church in Wales

    A bill to allow the ordination of female Bishops into the Church in Wales was narrowly defeated by 3 votes by the House of the Clergy at the beginning of this month. It was defeated by only 3 votes, a press release at the Church in Wales reports.. Arch Bishop Barry Morgan is said to…

  • Yatta (English Translation)

    If you don’t know what Yatta is, go google it. Here, for those that ever wondered, is the English translation. Enjoy G R Double-E N Leaves G R Double-E N Leaves It’s so easy! Happy-go-lucky! We are the world! We did it! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! (Unh!) All right! All right!…

  • Cross over Movie posters you have to see

    Find them here Some of the funniest movie cross-over posters I’ve seen in a long time. Enjoy, BX

  • Romance the answer?

    Romance. The undead form of human pretence. We flander in the hope that our preening will get us a mate. Man, Woman, it matters not. The reasons are all the same. We fear. We fear the lonlieness. We fear that we may never be good enough for someone. We fear that we may never find…

  • XFCE4 – Quick and Pretty (Gnome killer?)

    Ubuntu’s default install of XFCE 4 first gives you the impression that you’ve forgotten to change sessions (using the “options” button on the log-in screen, and then choose “Change Session”). However it’s quicker, more lightweight, and definately more user-friendly to those of us running on older hardware, though of course, you can change all that.…

  • Blows The Wind

    So blows the wind, The cobwebs from my mind, Awake, afresh at the turning of the tides, It whistles through memory-forgotten streets, To revive haunting laughter echos, The old bones creak and rattle, And rise with the breezes call, It calls to the primal heartbeat, The rythem of a long-forgotten dance, The wind swirls the…

  • Installing a new desktop on Ubuntu

    If you happen to like windows, then you will love Ubuntu. This distribution seems to adore making things overly complicated for no real reason, and obfuscating the way things should work. Perhaps it is the way of the future for those that don’t care how their system works. I do. I’m not a big fan…

  • Upgrading Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 (beta)

    This article is based on an article by brandon hutchinson I noticed with some glee (as most geeks do) that Fedora 9 was on the way in 17 days. Could I wait 17 days? I needed to remove the Ubuntu install on my machine, and replace it with one that at least gave me a…

  • RHCE – Certification results

    Or, to put it another way. I passed. I got 100% on this exam. Surprised the heck outta me.

  • Dublin, A confused City

    I have just returned from the fair city of Dublin, where myself and Rosslyn have spent the past week. She looking at the sites and sounds of the City, and myself beavering away for my RHCE certification. Dublin strikes me as a very confused City. It’s neither one thing nor the other. There are no…

  • Reach for the Stars!

    This post is a little out of my ordinary blogging area. I found this from my wonderful-timewasting friend, stumble. (if you don’t have it, get it!). This is a video of two disabled(or what ever the current PC word is) guys going at it in a dance-off. Nither of them can walk unaided (they both…