Category: General

A day late, but check out all the background detail in Geeks in Love (flash required).

New Futurama episodes confirmed 🙂

After all the OTT hoo-hah about alcoholic wife-beater and sometime Dunstable Town stalwart George Best finally carking it in the press over the past few days, the few seconds given to the untimely death of world champion rally driver Richard Burns on the BBC news yesterday was a bit rubbish, really. (Although maybe it’s just as well; it’s always kind of frightening to think of that sort of thing happening to somebody the same age as you.)

AOL might not get it, but personally, I’d pay extra to get into one of those cinemas, if they had them here… in fact, if they could just put a Faraday cage around the whole of Dublin so I never had to be annoyed by / walked into / driven into by some muppet on a mobile phone ever again, I’d be more than delighted.

Sounds like Linksys have finally admitted (to some people at least) that their new-ish WAG354G modem/router doesn’t work with the PS2. I’ve been trying to tell them that for months, but this post at linksysinfo.org is about the most informative (and least encouraging) I’ve seen about it so far.

I’m not completely hosed as I can still swap out the Linksys for my old ZyXEL modem (no router) and run a cable downstairs from that straight to the PS2, but that’s not quite the wireless utopia I was hoping for.

Got hold of Carl Sagan‘s Cosmos DVD boxed set today, which I managed to find on eBay a couple of weeks back for rather less than the $100+ that Amazon want for it.

When it was first aired in the 80s– and it’s never been repeated since in the UK, AFAIK, at least not on a terrestrial channel– I remember being blown away by the visual effects, the music (mostly from Vangelis’ Heaven & Hell album), and the suitably epic feel of the whole thing. I also remember missing the very last episode, about which I was rather upset at the time, so I’m looking forward to seeing it all again. (It should certainly help fill the pre-bedtime TV hole in our new house that’s still waiting for NTL to get off their cretinous arses and join two wires together in our living room.)

The first place I ever worked (if you don’t count a crappy summer job typing in the size of graveyard plots), the Logica office in Cambridge, is closing at the end of this month. They’re planning a reunion dinner there on Friday October 21st (not sure if I’ll be going over for it myself yet), but so far they’ve only tracked down about half the people who’ve worked there… so if you know anyone who did and would like to be involved, please ask them to contact Clifton Hughes at logicacmg.com.

Well, according to Lycos, anyway.

And here was me thinking Bastien was going to a proper uni… turns out it’s really just Battersea Poly 🙂

So, it looks like England are going to win some burned sticks of wood because, essentially, it rained a lot. According to the hype in the media, this is about as exciting as cricket gets, which says it all really.