Caboose

As I was wandering back out of the town centre yesterday, having finished my Christmas shopping, I took this photo of Parker’s Piece:

On a slightly techy note I’ve now worked out how to keep the EXIF header when I reformat the pictures for the web, so if you have the right software, you can see what settings my camera used to take the picture.

If anybody else out there has an old HP laptop and is installing Linux on it you might want to have a look at Linux on HP Pavilion 3270 Notebook.

Although mine’s a 3250, it’s almost identical and there’s some good information in there. (In Europe it was sold as an OmniBook XE2.)

Walking back from the pub can be a very pleasant experience. If I had got a taxi tonight I wouldn’t have noticed the faint halo around the full moon, or the (probably unintentional) pattern of coloured curtains at the executive townhouses beside the Carter cycle bridge.

Reminds me of nights walking back from the pub back in Stirling when I would sometimes just stop and look at the stars. Beer seems to do that to me.

Wish I’d had my camera with me, although the pictures would probably look rubbish in the morning.

I found this slightly sinister site today: Geobytes

I’d love to know exactly how they can track my IP address to Cambridge, although I suppose there’s quite a lot of users all appearing to come from NTL’s proxy servers for this area.

“I’ve been places you can’t imagine.” turned up in my website stats recently, as a referrer. Very strange.

In fact there were 8 hits with that referrer. Is this somebody just having a laugh with their referrer strings in their browser?

A quick Google found somebody else who had been visited.

Makes a nice change from all the usual “http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search” stuff.

I decided this that my old HP laptop has become too slow and full of junk, it was time to nuke it and start again.

The slight problem is that it seems the HP recovery CDs don’t work. They create a ‘hibernate’ partition, write the special diagnostics software and then just flash a cursor at you. Not very helpful at all.

Looks like it’s going to be Linux getting installed, I just hope I can find a driver for the wacky built-in modem.

Feeling grottier today, achy and bunged up. Still went to work, in order to spread the bugs further.

Interesting year-end stats from Google: Zeitgeist

Went through to a skidpan near Fakenham yesterday for a bit of sliding around in cars, organised by the IAM (website).

After that we set off for a few beers, then a few more, some food at Yippee Noodles on King Street, another couple of beers and then back to the house for whisky.

Today after a bit of a lie-in it was breakfast at CB2. Didn’t enjoy it all that much as my sense of taste isn’t quite right, I’ve finally caught the cold that my housemates have been suffering from. Time to stock up on Lemsip and soup.

This is actually quite old news, but it was only yesterday that somebody told me it had appeared on the BAS website.

My friend Andy, currently working down at King Edward Point, South Georgia, has got engaged. Here’s the photo from BAS:

That’s taken from the King Edward Point diary.