QT Learning blues
A few weeks ago (with birthday money from my mum & dad) I bought Matthias Kalle Dalheimer’s book, “Programming with Qt” (published by O’Reilly) – Qt is a graphical user interface toolkit mostly used...
Monthly Archive: February 2004
Daily Express puts its foot in it again
The flow of garbage from the Daily Express continues unabated. Last Thursday it published yet another multi-page feature on immigration, claiming that just as we are getting loads of immigrants coming in, Brits are...
More bigotry from the LGF donkeys
The morons over at Little Green Footballs are getting hot under the collar over the decision in the state of Alabama to permit people to wear religiously-mandated head scarves and turbans in their driving...
Bush Buddy Watch
Here’s a piece from British IT site The Register about how a California judge has given the green light to Diebold – the company that’s committed to delivering Ohio’s votes to the President! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35664.html...
BSD developments …
I’ve decided to take BSD off my machine. The CD downloads are basically a demo, to get the full OS you’re supposed to get the 4-CD pack from FreeBSD Mall or some other company....
Religious education and “teaching atheism”
Today the Observer reveals that kids in schools are to be taught atheism, which, they say, should be welcomed, “for the move accepts a simple fact of modern life: that ours has become a...
Abu Hamza makes the front pages again
The Scum, Britain’s leading red-top gutter rag, put Abu Hamza on its front two pages again for what must be the third week running. The paper has made a date of it each week,...
The MS Desperation Tour
While it’s still the 11th, I thought I should say something about the MS “100% Inspiration” tour which I mentioned earlier in the blog. They did a lecture followed by a lab session, but...
Just before I go …
A rather amusing entry in the blog Web Pages that Suck which pretty much tallies with my attitude to drink (except for the fact that Islam forbids it, although I stopped drinking before I...
Institutional Racism
Yet another British institution is found to be institutionally racist – and this time it’s the mental health system, which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. See BBC report but it’s all over the national British...
Daily Express – same old garbage
As might be expected from a newspaper owned by porn baron Richard Desmond, the Daily Express once again went for the lowest common denominator in its coverage of the EU expansion issue. It was...
Microsoft’s “Inspirational Tour”
At my University (Kingston, in Surrey) Microsoft is going to be stopping on its “Inspirational Tour” next week – 11th Feb 2004! That’s next Wednesday! That means we can all go along and ask...
These wretched viruses
I’m sure most of you reading this by now will have received at least one copy of this MyDoom virus. I get several of these files landing in my inbox every day, and I...
Got my BSD working again …
As it turns out it didn’t mess up my whole laptop, and all I had to do was re-save my system settings and BSD works again (I haven’t tried Windoze 2000 for some time)....
Peter Bowditch and Roy Meadow
The “Millenium Project” has got to be one of the most odious little websites ever published, and this guy seems to think he’s the most rational dude out there. This website (despite its occasional...
Islam and American Family Values
An interesting little site called “Ladies Against Feminism” – a call from some rather quaint-sounding ladies apparently in Oregon to give up their trousers and become housewives, among other things – has published an...