A simple matter of…

It’s been quite a struggle to get virt-manager working (particularly using “qemu+ssh” transport as I do). Firstly there was some braindead hard-coding of ssh ports (to 22) in both virt-manager and libvirt (given that it’s the default WTF did they hardcode “-p 22″ – they could have just skipped it!). Secondly there was some _really_ [...]

So we have a new IKEA store relatively nearby (Southampton). I think the traffic to get there is going to be dreadful (it always was bad to get there when I lived in Chandlers Ford). They have a website – not at www.ikea.co.uk but www.ikeasouthamptonstore.co.uk (I hate location specific websites – surely most of the [...]

First ride out on the bike since mid-December, nice ride up the back roads to Sandhurst and back again. Started to drizzle on the way back (first time out in the rain). I have discovered why heated grips can be useful – hands were a little chilly after an hour or so. Biking – it’s [...]

Over Christmas I performed the usual “maintenance” work on my parents PC (which computer literate person doesn’t!) One job was to move it to a larger hard disk. They were using Windows (they needed Quicken a while back), so I copied the disk over and er, Windows failed to let them log in. It would [...]

Well just plain terrorist state really. Israel of course. “[http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5100OY20090201 Disproportionate response]” – in other words not an appropriate response. Even they admit it. Killing 1300 Palestinians (vs 10 Israelis) is disgusting. Bombing schools, children, UN buildings including during a ceasefire. Blocking humanitarian aid. Preventing journalists from seeing what is really going on. Using white [...]