Strangely Perfect

Introduction These shots are primarily for the benefit of my friend. Virtual Box Sun’s (now Oracle’s) VirtualBox application allows computer users to run a variety of Operating Systems (OS) on virtually any computer operating system.  This is the VirtualBox homepage. For example: Windows XP on Mac Solaris on Windows XP Windows 7 32-bit on Windows [...]

How Summer Camps Could Change Britain by Christopher M. Green (Convenor of the Summer Camps Forum and Founding Director of The ATE Trust) Download Links to Original Chris Green Articles: Letter to MPs February 2010 Suggested letter format to lobby your local MP on behalf of Chris Green’s summer camps’ initiative. How Summer Camps …inline [...]

WIRE. The 15th (from the album 154) I’ve always liked this tune with it’s rotating chords, sequenced strangely.  It’s The 15th by Wire.  The videos are a historical record, in reality, from the first release, the first(ish) performance and then recent performances…

Guillotine and “The Reign of Terror” Funny how I missed this during the summer – I was in hospital, I think. This video is Henry Paulson, stumbling and squirming, as he struggles to evade quite simple questions for someone in his position.  (I talked about his deceit last year here and here, at the start [...]

Twitter Today’s news that actor Stephen Fry, famous for his uptake of all new gadgets and one-man publicist for Twitter, is “thinking about giving up on Twitter” got me thinking.  (see Fry ponders leaving Twitter site ) Apparently he thinks there’s too much aggression and unkindness around….. well, dah? Not that I’m disagreeing with the [...]

Introduction & History Recently, Microsoft has reworked it’s search engine (MSN Live Search) and renamed it Bing.  This was followed even more recently, with a joint venture between itself and former search king Yahoo! into a hazily explained search and advertising combination. Microsoft is well known for wheeling out the lawyers as backup to it’s [...]

Pricewert Whinges Over the past week, behind the scenes, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been progressively locking down an ISP, until finally on the 6th of June, it got the plug pulled.  See news item here: US cuts off ‘criminal’ net firm Pricewert, the umbrella for firms such as 3FN.net & APS Telecom [...]

Humphrey Hawksley in an article on today’s BBC News website has reported the (blindingly obvious, some might say) results of a 25-year American study into the effects of air pollution (specifically vehicle and industrial) on life expectancy. City air pollution ‘shortens life’ Basically, it’s bad! I live next to an A-class road, busy with holiday [...]

As part of my day job, I get a (extremely valuable, it must be said, for which I’m very grateful) MSDN subscription. Recently, I’ve had trouble with Visual Studio.  It used to be 2005 and is now 2008.  They use the Team Foundation Server Developer Edition.  So I decided to re-install….  oh, dear. After a [...]

I’ve set up OpenDNS, http://www.opendns.com/ on my home router to give it a try. This is for a few reasons: To see what it’s like :roll: To block out phishing sites globally.  This is a test at giving myself an extra layer of security without hitting the PC or router performance. To block out gambling [...]

Even more nails in the coffin of ID Cards and the safety of the data stored therein.  Almost everyone who has been locked up now has their details floating around on a memory stick.  By definition (they are criminals, after all), they have low morals, but if any have had low honour amongst their own, [...]

In the news again (see Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer), is Delia Derbyshire, creator of the Doctor Who theme.  One particular characteristic of the sixties, apart from the fashions etc, is the “sound” behind all the films and of popular music at the time.  However, getting past the cheesy flower power and merseybeat [...]

Today’s “Dilbert” says it all really (look for 10 June 2008). A load of fuckwits in charge of a few banks turn the lives of millions into a hard and bestial struggle. Did they get sacked? Did they get demoted to junior clerk? Did they take a pay cut? Did their “performance” bonuses get removed? [...]

This link to the wayback machine shows one of the inaccuracies that the Crawling Chaos website was created to correct. I’ve posted it here as the blog bloke (Jo Kyle) can’t be bothered to keep things on track, organised or reply to my posts … Compare and contrast to the Crawling Chaos – Myths page [...]