The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / June 29, 2007 / John / 1
Ok, it’s a sorry state of affairs when your games console posts more frequently than you do. Given that the thing is basically posting drivel, I’ve switched off the auto-post. Anyone strange enough to actually WANT to read it can do so by clicking the 360 blog link at the top. For everyone else –
Ramblings / May 23, 2007 / John / 2
Our old grey moggy passed away today. She’s been with us for near enough twenty years. She was a friendly, gentle cat who doted on the children, even when they yanked her tail. She was very cuddly, very affectionate and will be missed very much. She has a special place of her own now, between
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
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
Ramblings / April 6, 2007 / John / 0
It’s a public holiday and I’m the only one in the department, so I’m taking the opportunity to indulge myself a little. It is Good Friday, after all, so only right that I should be listening to my favourite bit of music ever – Parsifal by Richard Wagner (Knap, natch). As an added bonus, Wagner’s