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I’ve just given in to the urge – dug out my copy of Drukqs (Aphex Twin, 2001)… I couldn’t get on with it in 2001, but now it seems to make much more sense? What’s all that about? And, I’ve suddenly spotted the “Jones” (Nathan Barley) == “AFX” link! (of course Jones == Mighty BooshContinue reading “AFX == Jones”

In another retro-viewage session, I’ve re-visited “Cool Hand Luke” an absolute classic of a film from 1967 in which Paul Newman plays a non-conformist rebel… This reminds me so much of the first time I saw this film, with my Dad, as a young boy… Classic quotes like “I can eat 50 eggs.” that myContinue reading “"What we've got here is…failure to communicate."”

… just re-visited “Nathan Barley” – Chris Morris & Charlie Brooker’s take on the self-obsessed world of the “self-facilitating media node”s of the nu-meeja boom. Genius. Even though it was slated by the critics when released (it was first aired in 2005 – a long time after the early nu-meeja hype had settled) it’s oneContinue reading “Honkchisel or Glossal Frag?”

It seems like everyone’s been talking manbags lately (started last Xmas, with my mum threatening to buy me one!) – is this the year they’ll really make it to the mainstream? I must confess to being a ManBag fan and active carrier for years – since the mid-Eighties I guess – I’ll try and putContinue reading “ManBags and Stationery…”

found this over at Veloux’s place… Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™ Doesn’t quite sit right in the WordPress scheme of things… How it should look… cxf

Another one done. Amazing to see the Children’s appetite for chocolate — so unbelievably huge! It never ceases to amaze me how they’ll put all manner of fluorescent (un-natural!) coloured products in their tums, but turn their noses up at good, honest veg! cxf

Imagine my excitement when I finally got my hands on the p990i – after several years of my faithful service to the SE P-Series the so called “flagship” promises so much, but in the end, delivers so little – here’s why: random reboots – “the phone has restarted to improve performance” ??? Come on! WhatContinue reading “Smartphone not-so-smart”

No, not some incitement to murder, just 5 minutes and 18 seconds of pure genius from danlesac & scroobius pip – reminds me of Leftfield/Lydon’s “Open Up” (without the venom) or that Baz Lehrman “Sunscreen” thingy (only 874,000% cooler) Radio 1’s uber-kiwi Zane Lowe introduced me to this epic klingen-klanger as I was suffering myContinue reading “"thou shalt always kill"”

Well that was a long ‘un! One of those never-ending days at work, but unusually, one where I feel like I actually achieved something! Useful meeting, presentation went well, couple of useful phone calls where people actually had the right info. and were helpful! Wonders will never cease. Just popping out for a spot ofContinue reading “Phew – what a day!”

ok, so she’s asleep next to me, here I am typing (poking & prodding more like!) on the laptop keyboard, trying to keep it quiet… it’s 11:27 and I’ve got to be up at 04:30 – am I mad? night night!

“Welcome to WordPress.com.” They said. And that was it. Thrust onto the informational-super-blogospere-way. And so it begins…. cxf.

“My eyes have turned to toast, and my ears are bleeding” – surely one of the all-time greatest lyrics, ever. I’ve just discovered it on Japanese Spam Hammer‘s “Bra Hair” – a debut album from 1998 that still sounds fresh today. But more than fresh – it will knock into a cocked hat any “madeContinue reading “Japanese Spam Hammer”

Had a trip to two interesting places in Texas today: 1. Dinosaur Valley State Park, near Glen Rose, Texas and 2. Pate Museum, near Forth Worth, Texas. Both places contained evidence of Dinosaurs. The first, the Dinosaur Valley State Park, has real dinosaur footprints in the rock of the river-bed. The footprints were made aboutContinue reading “Dinosaurs – prehistoric & post-war”

EMOS what? EMOS who? It’s a phrase from my days in the Marconi TAC24 (Technical Assistance Centre – 24 x 7). EM-OS was the GPT/Marconi SDH Element Management Operating System – basically an SDH Network Element manager running on HP-UX on HP J2240/J210 and similar workstations. (Later EMOS was merged into Marconi’s “ServiceOn” product portfolio,Continue reading “EMOS Heaven”

Well, what do you know? You’re happily plodding along, doing your usual day to day stuff, and life goes and throws a spanner in the works! Reminds me of the John Lennon quote “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans“. In this case my other plans included a business tripContinue reading “Pneumonia + Pleurisy = NOT GOOD”

Well, my quest for world domination from the back bedroom continues… Latest project – a dedicated stratum 1 NTP server for Farrow HQ! Got the 1PPS, ToD etc. coming out of the Symmetricom TimeSource 3100 (see previous post!) so all I need is a ‘puter to do the NTP bit 😉 Fancy one of theseContinue reading “NTP server – what time is it?”

OK, so this working from home lark – not really possible when your home-office is in the dining room which is right next to the front door, at the front of the house. Everyone that comes through the front door wants to say hello, and then there’s the postman, and all the other distractions justContinue reading “Moved upstairs”