A simple matter of…

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 [...]

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 [...]

I would say it’s been a great two weeks off, but I’d be lying. As two weeks holiday go, I think this one has been the worst I can recall. There have been a few highlights (visiting family and a few friends) but not as many as I’d have liked (visiting _more_ friends!) and I [...]

Maybe we should just limit fog lights to only 6 hours use a year. Should help stop the twats who drive around with them all the time. Particularly the ones where their normal headlights are not working properly.

So, taxes. From [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7741397.stm the BBC]: And the bulk of the tax cuts will be directed at those on lowest incomes, partly because they have the highest propensity to spend – for the good of the economy So, the tax cuts will be aimed at the poor since they spend more. Er, if they are [...]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paypass#PayPass PayPass] is a contactless (NFC – Near Field Communications) method for making payments of up to £10. Such as a coffee. No need to enter your PIN. So, rig up a reader with wi-fi (or some other wireless network), then just “brush” up against people on the tube. £10 per person. Yes, it _is_ [...]

PC world that is. I’m just ordering some network cables as we are almost out at work and need some more. I’m also putting in a “test DMZ” as we have really vicious firewall rules (as they should be) to our main DMZ. We’d like to slacken these rules to test boxes, whilst still allowing [...]

Just like [http://carfax.org.uk/node/38 Hugo] I’ve received some spam from Eclipse: … We’ve noticed that you’ve opted to not receive further communication from Eclipse and so may be unaware of our latest improvements. … They then continue with the spam (oh, and an unsubscribe link not that will achieve anything with that policy). To all companies [...]

Dear HMRC, Thank you so much for including an envelope for me to reply to you with. I understand that I have to affix a stamp and that it’s not prepaid. That’s fine. However I thought you might like to know that in the country you server (in fact, across the entire continent of Europe) [...]

“The quartet smashed the previous world mark of 37.40…by a huge margin to set a new benchmark of 37.10.” [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7576737.stm BBC] “smash Michael Johnson’s mark of 19.32….” (with 19.30) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7572131.stm BBC] Dear BBC, please educate your journalists – 0.8% faster and 0.1% faster are not worthy of those statements. By comparison the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565203.stm 100m] report [...]