The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Geekery, Ramblings / April 27, 2007 / John / 0
I love it when bloggable things happen at work. Due to a bizarre experiment involving a wall, a whiteboard, all the blu-tack in the universe and an infeasibly large number of natural language programmers, systems bods, and developers, we’ve managed to prove exactly what it says in the title. Technically, I suppose, it wasn’t the
Music, Ramblings / April 25, 2007 / John / 1
Or that’s how it seemed. After what seems like an eternity of listening to music on mp3 players and laptops, we finally got our nice shiny hifi set up last night. Between the big chunky toroid transformers and the fairy-dust powered magical crossover in Linn speakers, we dragged Nina off the surface of the disc
Ramblings / April 24, 2007 / John / 1
Urm. Well, it’s been a bit busy of late. On the gaming front, I was playing Castlevania – Portrait of Ruin until I met a boss that killed me and set me back an hour. I was also playing Lost Magic, but then I met a boss who killed me and set me back an
The Tube / April 22, 2007 / John / 0
The Killer Shrews, made in 1959, is everything a B-movie should be. Really really bad, really really funny, and awesome entertainment. IMDB give this film 2.5/10 which is probably 2.5 more than it actually deserves in terms of artistic merits, but who cares! Ray Kellog manages to direct this truly dreadful script with flair and
Geekery / April 16, 2007 / John / 0
I get so many requests for my OpenPGP key these days that I thought I may as well post it here to save people asking. You can download the transport armour version here. It’s also available on the main keyserver at http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/ under the key ID jmd at nelefa.org (but replace the at with an
Music / April 15, 2007 / John / 0
I don’t, as a rule, blog about music because I listen to so much of it that I’d never get anything else done. This album, though, warrants an entry for its sheer ACENESS. I find that I get so used to bands being unable to match their over-produced studio efforts on the stage that I
Ramblings / April 12, 2007 / John / 0
“Polled I/O FTL. You’d think the interrupt had never been designed. Oh. That was really quite geeky, wasn’t it?” “Yes. Yes, it was.”
Ramblings / April 10, 2007 / John / 0
A bit pretty, isn’t it? This is a two minute walk from where we live. It’s impossible to describe how good it is to be able to just wander off and sit on the grass in the quiet – particularly as we’re living in a fairly built up area. The thing I particularly like is
Ramblings / April 10, 2007 / John / 2
See, this is just annoying. Why is it that certain types of people just aren’t happy unless they’re busy legislating? One of the nice things about blogs is that you take them as they find them. They’re not ever-so-nice reporters in sharp suits with elegantly styled hair reporting only the bits that make money, it’s
Ramblings / April 9, 2007 / John / 1
More on Microsoft’s half-arsed indexing technology. It still accounts for 80% of the bandwidth usage on my site. As a result, I’ve banned the entire search.live.com domain. Hopefully others will follow suit. Inflating peoples bandwidth bills just to try and be like google is just plain rude, if you ask me. So – those of