A better question may have been, how do you not see the flashing red lights at the end of the pitlane? 
That JPS Lotus was sexy. 1200hp! 50% more than a current F1 car, and from a 1.5L. 800bhp/L
Have to admit, it’s something I’m not immune to, but…
”writing deceptively solid post-hardcore songs with a heavy spattering of angular influence, while leaning forward into a more polished territory of crisp, embellished production.”
Some people seem to make a career out of it. Ah, music reviewers :).
I finally got around to buying a new router for the cable modem. I’ve been meaning to replace the old Belkin 10/100 4way gateway thing for probably a year or so now, mostly because it was ugly and didn’t have wifi, partly because it had the occassional tendency to just give up :). What had never occurred to me, was that the reason I was only get 10Mbps from my 20Mbps connection was that the router was only running at 10Mbps on the modem side.
Nice and nippy! I should be nice and ready for the 50Mbps rollout now :o)
The first version of my note making application JNoteSi is now available for download from the relevant wiki page: http://bootlace.co.uk/mw/index.php?title=JNoteSi.
I’ve only run it on my Vista Ultimate 64 bit box, and only in a limited fashion, so I can’t vouch for it’s portability or stability, so very much in a “use at your own risk” state, but “It should work”(tm).
If you use it, have any problems, or ideas for simple features that’d change your life, then feel free to add a comment, or drop a mail to me (put ”[JNoteSi]” somewhere in the subject line).
Thinking of milestones, 2 Saturdays ago saw a new record for spam mails received in a 24hr period. In a single day, I received a veritable feast of mail, totalling just over 6000. Quite a nasty amount in itself, but when you consider that that is just the mail that made it through my filters, it gets very scary. I typically have a 90% auto rejection rate on mails, so this could’ve been as many 60,000 emails in a 24hour period, or 1 spam every 1.44seconds!
Such a waste of my life…
I’ve just upgraded my games pc and started using it as my main desktop machine. It’s quite impressive, I can run FC8 in a virutal machine faster than my previous PC could run it dedicated.
Anyway, it’s reached a couple of landmarks, milestones, whatnots…
4GB of RAM, the limit of a 32bit address space, and (iirc) the quantity of memory that would result in 1 failed bit per 15min in the early 90s according to a friend of mine. He was trying to explain why the ARM2’s 26bit of address space was enough at the time though.
1TB of harddisk space! A once unimaginable number, in the same way that a million pound could once buy a house, a car, and keep you and your family alive for 50years. Equivalent storage to over 32million Acorn Electrons, 50,000 of my first harddrive, or about 2 or 3 Windows apps (*maybe exagerrating there :)).
After 10+ years of reluctant service, my £49.99 Curry’s special vacuum cleaner has given up the ghost. Well, the bag “she could take n’more Cap’n”, and with the bag a filling and the motor a heating, came the final torrid yelp of a coil burnt out.
So, I’ve just ordered one of these bad boys. All the positive comments are probably written by Mr Morphy or Miss Richards, but one things if for sure, it’s guarenteed to end up sucking one way or the other.
I’d pre-ordered GT5:P from Amazon, and it arrived in typically good fashion on Friday, the day of release. I’d been questioning my wisdom in ordering the disc version, fearing that it may arrive late, leaving me teased by the prospect of buying yet another game twice and downloading it through impatience. Fortunately for me, Sony had issues with providing it for purchase/download on the PlayStation network and my “hard” copy arrived before their issues were resolved (I fear I may need to translate that into English at some point :-)).
“Knowing Max it might be all a bit of a joke. You know, it’s one of those things where he’s sort of taking the p***, rather than anything against Jewish people.” Ecclestone regarding Mosley’s recent alleged transgressions.
Perhaps McLaren wasn’t a witch hunt, maybe it was just Mad Max’s whacky sense of humour.
Part II of the Star Trek fan film “Of Gods And Men” went live a little earlier this year. First part didn’t really grab me in the same way as Star Trek: New Voyages did (now Star Trek: Phase II), but hopefully it’ll help fill that Trek void until the movie.
Link(s): Of Gods and Men, Phase II