One of the great things about the Culture novels by Iain Banks is the names given to the enormously powerful ships.
And the web being as it is, has a full list on fount of all knowledge Wikipedia.
Two of my favourites is the General Systems Vehicle 'Of Course I Still Love You' and the GSV 'No More Mr Nice Guy'. Great names...
Just found a bizarre little screensaver, downloadable from Microsoft itself which mimics the feared blue screen followed by a restart. Not sure I want it on my PC, but it can be found here...
But a really great clock screensaver can be found here, created by a guy called Simon Heys. Simple, stylish and currently my new screen saver...
The stuff from our wedding gift list came yesterday. People have been incredibly generous, it is really absolutely superb! The only thing is that we probably now need a bigger house to fit it all in...
We owe an awful lot of thank you's ...
Thought I'd give it a go. So here are the instructions, just for when I cock it all up and have to repeat...
From there on in, it is pretty straightforward (being careful of the partitioning choices of course). It does take a while to download and install, so it is probably worth kicking it off, getting a pizza and watching a film... but I now have Fedora 9 installed, which is good...!
If I ever write a thriller, a Mills and Boon, or a made for TV movie, this is what it will be called. Lovely place, very easy to get lost though, so if you go walking around the gorges, make sure you take a map...!
I can't remember who said it yesterday, but these days you are not officially married until you change your Facebook profile...
I am very tired, but incredibly happy...!
She told me that now I needed to get rid of all those mix tapes from other, earlier women... I said yes.
My brother came up with some fantastic photos of my Mum and Dad getting married. They are great. They look so young, but they were: Dad 24, Mum 22. And there is a superb one of my Grandma and Grandad, I could only guess at the year. I don't want to post them here, but here is a photo of the church in Philadelphia that my Grandma used to go to back in the 1930's when she worked over there. I ended up visiting the place 70 years later on a business trip. I wonder how it had changed...
A really interesting documentary about the impact the (according to the experts) of the near perfect font on the world of design. The font of corporate America, the ubiquitous boring font of too many designs, or a clear clean font that doesn't colour or the message as other fonts can: take your pick.
Not available on Windows though: we only have Arial, which (according to the experts) is simply and inferior clone ...!
A rather interesting comic talking about how to develop a browser can be found here. Especially when they start talking about unit testing, automated UI testing, threading, garbage collection, sandboxing, compilation vs interpretation and all sorts of fun stuff. Must have a look at the new browser...