While I'm in the mood for sounding off, I'm not entirely pleased with Dell's behaviour. Janos at work bought a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v.

It comes with Ubuntu installed, but it's not the standard Ubuntu distribution, it's been tinkered with by Dell, mostly for the worse Janos found. So he …

I read Glyn Moody's writings with interest, but with his post Why Single Sign On Systems Are Bad I think he's made a rare slip. Here's a note to Glyn on why I think he's wrong on this occasion:

You conflate single sign-on (SSO) and single identity. OpenId lets you …

We went to see this at the Little Theatre yesterday. It was a good film for a number of reasons:

• It had the tension and excitement of a thriller.
• The aesthetic of grubby hi-tech was well done.
• The technology was believable.
• Its characters were interesting.
• The dialogue was well written …

I dreamt I drove a car out of a driveway, but I was driving it while leaning over from the back seat. I could really only steer, although I attempted to operate the pedals with my hands. On the way out I hit two cars. The person whose cars I'd …

I love these self-help, motivational, succeed-in-business type books. Who Moved My Cheese? reminds me of the line in the Vicar of Dibley, 'I can't believe I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter isn't butter!'. Who moved Who-Moved-My-Cheese??

The message of the book is, 'just accept change and get on with it'. Well, that's often the best …

It's astonishing in The Brothers Karamazov (published in 1880) how up-to-date Dotoevsky is with scientific ideas. To whit:

• Ivan's demon visitor talks of the 10 minutes it takes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
• In the same conversation, he talks of the low temperature of space …

I dreamt that I saw a very ill child, a toddler, lying in bed with a lurid green face. I said that he had to be taken to hospital. His mother said they were going to take him, as soon as the father came back. I said NO, the child …

Previously I told you about the UFO activity that occured in my garden. To update you, the mother ship is still there, but the curious rectangular craft have disappeared, replaced by a mysterious pattern of stick-like objects. You can just about make out the sticks in the photo below:

What …

Oh, and a handy hint is to go after lunch - the queue was only 6 minutes long when we went!

If it's in a gallery it's not graffiti!

I can't tell you what your attitude to graffiti should be but mine is simple: If it improves the thing its on then I approve. If it doesn't then I don't.

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PS. The joke wouldn't have been as funny if the …