Archive for July, 2006

But for the WiFi

There’s been a lot of talk recently about Ubuntu. Claims have been made that it is the one distribution to rule them all, that it spells the final death knell for closed-source operating systems and there have even been some switchers from Mac OS X. Given the noise I thought it was about time I [...]

Sweat and the tube

Finally the heat has risen to that level where a trip on the tube becomes an exercise in torture. The cause isn’t helped by my being on the Northern line; worse, by the time trains get to Oval getting on-board becomes a task of throwing oneself at the heaving mass in the carriage and hoping [...]