http://tthef.net/blog A blog of an AbiWord hacker Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:21:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This and this needs to be set alongside the NIMBY rhetoric coming out of the White House over the Gulf of Mexico spill. http://tthef.net/blog/?p=170 For my friends who never tire of inviting me to join up, this is why I keep giving you the cold shoulder. http://tthef.net/blog/?p=168 We are running an election to see which of the following characters are most important to you on Maemo: $ % & ( ) < = > \ _ | ~ £ € Dear Dave, This is a difficult question indeed; I must admit I have certain partiality for the ... http://tthef.net/blog/?p=166 I have not laughed like this for years -- whatever you do not read this at work! http://tthef.net/blog/?p=164 So, after a year of coveting it, and four months of dithering, about four weeks ago I have become a proud owner of Santa Cruz Heckler. I once heard a friend of a friend to say something along the lines that the Heckler is a piece of overpriced, decade-outdated technology; ... http://tthef.net/blog/?p=162 How about rebuilding Hadrian's Wall? (It's been a long time, I know. I have a whole bunch of half written posts about all kinds of things lying around, but much prefer twitter [tthef] and flickr [tf] these days.) http://tthef.net/blog/?p=161 For about a year now, I have been meaning to replace my bike lights to get a more sensible performance for night off-roading. I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted: a decent light output, equivalent to at least 20W halogen, and a sensible run time, to be ... http://tthef.net/blog/?p=157 I wish the ******* in the present UK government that are determined to push ID cards upon us would read this and reflect upon it. In unrelated news it became known that the UK government lost personal details of another 3,000,000 people, this time by exporting learner driver data to the ... http://tthef.net/blog/?p=156 In case you missed the fuss, these alternative tube announcements are quite amusing. (My favourite one is A Reminder for American Tourists, the runner-up being A Reminder for residents of London.) http://tthef.net/blog/?p=155 Web 2.0 ... is basically a collection of random unspecified features written by 23-year-old goth acidheads at Netscape in 1995 [a funny and incisive post on Android] http://tthef.net/blog/?p=154