Last week I joined the ranks of the great unwashed. Not that this has actually stopped me from going to work – I mean I have a job, I’m just not getting paid for it. If nothing else, going to the lab gets me somewhere warm, and stops unwise self experimentation on the effects of …
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Talk like a pirate day
In recognition of international talk like a pirate day I shall be wandering up and down the Mile End Road with a plastic carrier bag, accosting all and sundry saying only “DVDs?”
Apple batteries and Virgin Atlantic
I see from Slashdot reports that Virgin Atlantic are banning all Apple and Dell batteries due to potential fire hazards. The fact it is the Sony made batteries that exhibit this fault, and are found in many other laptops besides those made by Apple and Dell seems to have been ignored. At the second security …
That was the week that was
Well, I survived the flights with minimal sedation. I’ve no idea just what is in the wine they serve in battery-hen class on Virgin Atlantic, but it isn’t alcohol. Or rather, it has none of the time-warping effects of alcohol. I actually got back last Monday, I’ve just been otherwise occupied and unable to update …
An American adventure
I’m off to the US for a week. Sunny Virginia via gun ridden Washington DC for a laser conference. Seven hours spent blasting though the skies at a few hundred MPH several miles above the ground ‘fun’. I hate flying. Taking off and landing is no problem, but the sheer mindnumbing tedium of of the …