OneAndOneIs2

Another of those little command-line things I've found incredibly useful lately: The backtick. It looks like a slanty apostrophe, and on a GB keyboard it's in the top-left corner: ` What this does it make it really simple to turn the output of one com… more »

A small bomb was dropped on the house I'm living in this weekend. Nothing else can explain the devastation, the mud, the chaos, and the.. water bowl..?Hang on a minute...That's not a planet bomb, it's a space-station puppy!!Yes, Tina decided… more »

Yesterday, for the first time in a while, I drove to work in my car. It sucked. Takes half again as long & costs a lot more. Argh. But I had a reason for this: On my way home, I diverted from my usual route and went instead down the road I used… more »

Anyone else found Google's new "innovation" really, really annoying? I mean their "instant search" that returns search results as you type. In other words, whenever you type in a search, you have to fight your way through a multitude of other searc… more »

I came home the other day in the rain, and my hands were halfway numb by the time I got home. Next morning, I felt a real dislike for the idea of getting on the bike again. It reminded me of similar experiences when I went scuba diving. I knew a numbe… more »