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Tearing my hair out

I like the LAMP development platform. It’s cheap and very powerful although in corporations everything seems to be heading .NET.

I taught myself PHP from a book a while ago. I was an Oracle DBA at one point so the MySQL was easy. So I wrote a few utilities for my home [...]

HMG screws up everything

You would think tax codes were the easiest thing in the world to work out. You get a tax free allowance and everything else is taxed at exorbitant %. Of course they can’t even get the basics right and many are finding they are being screwed around by an unaccountable behemoth [...]

Large birds

Not fat women but large feathered creatures. We have a few on the planet already, particularly the Emu, and they can be farmed for meat like sheep, pigs and cows.

However here we have found the DNA from larger birds that were around tens of thousands of years ago when creatures were much [...]

I’m sure it’s all thought out. *Cough*

Our scientists are introducing a foreign insect species into the UK ecosystem to combat a foreign plant introduced into the UK ecosystem. The insect is a psyllid called Aphalara itadori.

Even though there are *cough* safeguards in place to prevent escape which seem to rely on chemically nuking the site if an escape is [...]

Barely started and already lost

ID cards are still slowly being rolled out by the Stasi. The level is so low that everyone thinks they have been stopped but that is not so.

So knowing that there are some out there, the fact it is government run, and that everything the government does falls apart and fails, I’m [...]

Snail mail

I know that EMail delivery is not guaranteed. Occasionally things go missing or are claimed to go missing anyway, and we wonder. Today, I received a failure to deliver message and I just couldn’t remember sending it. It must be important though because I just don’t send junk mail.

On investigation [...]

Taking vaccines to point of use

One of the things that first surprised me was the fact that we give billions of pounds away every year in aid to the third world and yet despite all this we still have not rid these people of some of the most basic diseases.

Now of course I know it is incompetence and corruption that [...]

Simulators

When I started work way back in the 19xx’s, Sorry smudge on the screen there, one of the guys I was working with was seriously into flight simulators. So much so that he had several Apple II computers which he used to set his own system up. Nice chair, control sticks, footpads [...]

24/7 on the grid

It’s looking like we won’t be able to step away from the grid no matter where we go soon. In the past we have always had the excuse that we have a bad signal are we are out of range but that excuse is rapidly disappearing.

With modern technology improving all the time the [...]

Changing positions

One of things not yet blamed on humans is the polarity change expected any time soon. Soon, of course being in stellar terms which could mean several 1,000 years plus away.

It interests me because it is another example of how insignificant humans are in the scheme of things. Here is a global event [...]