I suspect the same people who thought having a cheap Polish nanny or the like was super in 2005. No need to invest in the infrastructure to support the communities who were trying to support and help… (View Post)

I got a new computer from work recently. It's so loaded with 'enterprise' apps that I can barely get work done. The anti-virus 'solution' alone has slowed disk access by about 10x. The pre-installed … (View Post)

I've been re-reading "The Meaning of Liff" recently, so I feel like a Douglas Adams quote is self-merited : The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'&quo… (View Post)

Bless you. (View Post)

I remember going on the big anti-Iraq war demo - one of the few demo's I've ever been on. And then realising that despite a million or two people making it very clear they didn't want The Thing, that… (View Post)