Alas ye poor fans

More at dorktowerfeed which is having a whole week of Star Wars strips.

I, for one, welcome your new monkey overlords

Americans - did you know that monkeys can hack your voting machines?

They Can.

(scarily literal post)

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Days

In the vague interest of letting people knowing what I've been up to:

Last night I went to see Ae Fond Kiss with green_amber, yonmei and pisica.  It was pretty good - I realised thalfway through that I hadn't seen a film in which real people did real things for a long time.  The plot was basically East is East, but with less laughs.  Or possibly Fiddler on the Roof in modern-day Glasgow.  Well made, good acting, etc.  Worth a watch if you like that kind of thing.  7.5/10

Then back to pisica's for a cup of tea (or glass or water in my case), then on to Dean Village (with a slight diversion when green_amber realised she'd lost her scarf at the cinema) for a housewarming.  Where I met 0olong, aitkendrum, diotina, lilitufire, rpgactionfigure, time_for_tea and many other entertaining people.  Nice flat too, if a tad bijou.

Today I'm  home again, where I plan to get some more C# done.  Hurrah!

Aaah, the bad old days

I fancied taking a look at the NASA World Wind  project - which produces images of the earth from all angles.  Looks extremely pretty, but is about 250MB.

So I started downloading it.  And got about 35k/s.  Which was going to take _ages_.  Oh, and dropped the connection 25 minutes in.  Why they haven't got a bittorrent set up I really don't know.

So I reverted back to my pre-broadband methods - grabbed a copy of GetRight and am now downloading from 6 mirrors of the file, for a total of 150kB/s.  Much more like it.

Hmm.  Now dropped back down in speed, as half of the mirrors seem to be borked.

Sigh.  BitTorrent people!  How hard can it be???

The Eternal War

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You will all be ecstatic to hear that the new Update page now scales the text-entry box to be a percentage of the page width, which means it fits the browser window rather than requiring scrolling.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you've missed _all_ the fun.