It's interesting looking at the graph of donations for the Atheist Bus Ads. For something that kicked off it's fund raising effort today for a now modest looking £5,500 it seems to have caught the zeitgeist. Perhaps it's because their is a silent majority* that feels left out …

The cycle home last night certainly counted as interesting. I didn't actually get around to leaving the office until around 1830 by which time is was quite dark. And raining. To be fair the rain wasn't the almost horizontal sheets of stuff that had been coming down earlier in the …

I'd hopped I would get by without having to learn the mysteries of Bison and how to build parsers. Unfortunately parsecvs uses it to grok the CVS files. Someone has added some new binary files into the CVS tree and it's causing parsecvs to go into a death spiral of …

A nice article on Slate talking about the history of the fail meme. Something I can't seem to find on the usually authoritative Wikipedia. I wonder if it's become a victim of the deletionists?

In other news XKCD cartoon off with the New Yorker.

We've not been having good time with Thursdays recently. Last weeks funeral/car break-in was topped this week by Fliss getting admitted to hospital on Thursday with suspected kidney stones. As anyone who has ever them will know they are very painful. As she had been in London for a …