. . . . but his spirit lives on in George W. Bush
Author: Brian Sargent
I would love to be involved in something like this. These guys 
spend 5 hours arranging post-it notes in the shape of a scene from Donkey Kong. That takes quite some dedication. I suppose I just need some inspiration, a bit of planning and a whole heap of post-it notes.
In the meantime I’ll enjoy this one. There are loads of pictures.
This link comes to you courtesy of BoingBoing.
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The cheesecake! I’ve been looking for a cheesecake recipe for a while now and found a great recipe on allrecipes.com My cheesecake always comes out looking a little burned but tastes great. the only problem is the topping – we don’t have graham crackers over here so I use 250g mixed gingernut and digestive biscuits, mixed with 100g of melted butter and it does just fine for me. anyway, here’s the cheesecake recipe
I was getting my weekly escapepod fix and Steve mentioned a new project, Stranger Things, a sort of podcast twilight zone series. I downloaded their premiere episode, which was adapted from a short story by Scott Sigler, and was really impressed. It was a good story, well acted and the special effects were really impressive. They had decided to postpone the launch of the podcast to make this the premiere episode and I’m glad they did. They recently released the second episode (actually two in one) and, while I’d have stuck with them, i wasn’t nearly so impressed with these episodes.
That said, what they’re doing is incredibly brave and must be a huge amount of work, and they deserve credit for that. I’m excited to see what comes out next month.
I have a lot of fun in my office, but the other day I was getting kind of peeved. I would keep typing on my new Vista PC and weird stuff would happen. I couldn’t work it out but was swearing at Vista. The application would swap accidentally and strange spellings and mistypings (worse than my usual) were apearing. At one point I was tapping the scren and stuff was happening – very strange.
Turns out the guys in the office had plugged a wireless keyboard into the back of my PC where I didn’t notice the connector, asn were having fun playing with that keyboard with all the bizzarre keyboard combinations. Took me far too long to work it out.
Didn’t stop us trying it out on Paul the next day – classic!
I was on the bus to work yesterday when we stopped at the east end of Princes Street. We’d been passing and being passed my a huge vehicle on a lowloader since Murrayfield but it had pulled past as the bus made a couple of stops.
When we got to Princes Street we had to wait at the lights, as usual. Then the lights turned green and nobody moved. This went on for 5 minutes until the driver announced there had been an accident. We were only about 3 buses behind the first bus in the queue. As we drove past we couldn’t see much, but that’s because I was on the lower floor near the door having decided to get off.
Turns out the huge vehicle on the lowloader had gouged a hole in the upper deck of the bus in front. one woman had leg injuries but thankfully that was all – these buses lose a large number of their pasengers just before reaching Princes Street. If the traffic had flowed a different way it could have been my bus that got hit, which is a scary thought.
Anyway the BBC has a more full report, with pictures, no less. Need to start carrying my camera around – need to FIND my camera.
I vividly remember sending my first Valentine. Her name was Pamela
and I was in love. I was about seven.
I walked to school and back every day – not very far. Crossed the
road, down the traffic free lane and then over another road to school.
Five or ten minutes depending on how keen I was. There were quite a
few people who used the lane to get to school and one of them was
Pamela.
I don’t know how it started but we would talk sometimes. No deep and
meaningful conversations, but she was nice to me and I liked that,
plus she was pretty, with long dark hair.
So come Valentines day I drafted my Mum as a co-conspirator. I had no
idea where she lived but Mum did, so she delivered my carefully
prepared anonymous Valentine, no doubt expressing my true feelings
with acronyms like SWALK and HOLLAND.
Walking up the lane on Valentines day I was a picture of nonchelance
(or at least I was in my head) as I asked her if she had received any
Valentines cards.
She told me that she had and I, sure of my secret, asked her if she
knew who it was from.
“I think it was from you” she said, at which point my imagined
nonchelance shattered, resulting in a red face, unconvincing denials,
and an increased pace up the hill.
I don’t remember talking to her after that, although I’m sure I did,
and I’m fairly sure that summer she moved on to secondary school and I
never saw her again.
I was about seven and she was about twelve. Apparently I had a thing
for the older woman.
which allows you to perform various tasks using your IM client. I’ve given it my pordpress details and we’ll see what come sout of this – very exciting!
So I posted recently about my new found love for Ubuntu linux. I did have some problems getting it installed though. I would boot up the Live CD and, even in safe graphics mode, I would get a garbled screen once Ubuntu had started off.
This was kind of a showstopper since all the solutions I saw involved already having ubuntu installed and loaded. Thanks to the guys on #ubuntu I learned about the alternate install CD and managed to get that on. I still had the same problem but could get into the recovery mode console and so here is what I did (with help from various internet postings)
- install ubuntu form the alternate install cd
- boot into the recovery console
- type “sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg”
- set the video type to be “vesa”
- reboot normally – hey, it works!
- install Automatix
- Let Automatix install the Nvidia drivers (together with lots of other cool things)
and you’re done!
UPDATE
corrected the typo pointed out by elijah below