While the USA celebrated it's democracy by the election of it's first black president we followed suite the next day by detonating a large quantity of [STRIKEOUT:dark]black powder. Although the Gunpowder Plot was more an attempt at regicide than subverting our fledgling democratic institutions. Still fireworks are fun …

The pundits in the studio where certainly more confident than I was as we waited for the various states to declare. The slightly odd exit-poll + sample declaration system they use in the US meant the TV networks where being very cautious before calling the contended states. The geography of the …

I found that one of the Debian developers packages emacs-snapshot for Debian stable. A little bit of shell script later and my Mutt is firing off a muti-tty emacsclients whenever I need to edit a mail. It shaves literally seconds off the time it takes me to compose an email …

It's a big day tomorrow and the last of the endorsements for the next President of the USA are coming in. While I have some fairly good ideas of who I'd like to see installed in the White House it's not really my place to say. It's a rather fundamental …

The sun is over the yard arm, F1 will be on in a few hours followed by a new Sharpe. The Sunday Slob is in full effect. Some days are just made for lounging.