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e-Government

March 8, 2007 - Glasgow , Technology - by admin - No Comments

Along with the national sites, like petitions.pm.gov.uk, WriteToThem, and TheyWorkForYou, it’s good to see the councils finally bringing more services online for residents. For a while, people have been able to report lighting and roads faults to them using RALF, and also pay their council bills online at billpayment.co.uk. Certainly, […]

Wil Wheaton Speaks Out

March 8, 2007 - Books , Geek - by admin - 2 Comments

Wil Wheaton (who, as you all should know, was Ensign Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) has finally come forth about the William Fucking Shatner history that he wrote about in Dancing Barefoot. The first part is this week with the second part coming up next week. The detailed […]

Evolution

March 6, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Novell , Technology - by admin - No Comments

It’s been around for a while and I vaguely recall checking out the collection of Zip files, but it took this article to encourage me to give it a shot again. Evolution now has (well, back in July 2006) a slick Windows installer to ease the pain of dependency checks […]

Spiders

February 19, 2007 - Cool things , Web - by admin - No Comments

Can’t remember how I found this, but it’s wonderfully funny. Enjoy… http://www.glumbert.com/media/spiders

Weekend work

February 19, 2007 - People - by admin - No Comments

Big thanks to Gordon for coming out to Milngavie to reassemble the steering column of the TR6. I’d be absolutely lost if I tried, but he managed it as if it was second nature. Saturday was spent roaming the Wedding Fair with Charlotte. I’m convinced these people bathe or shower […]