Thu - July 7, 2005
A letter to the terrorists
I read this at the London
News Review and think it's awfully apt. The sort of thing I wish I'd
written myself.
What the fuck do you think you're doing?
This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.
Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.
All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.
And if, as your MO indicates, you're an al-Qaeda group, then you're out of your tiny minds.
Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.
And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.
So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.
Watching the news this evening I was filled with pride as a Londoner. If the same thing had happened in New York or Washington DC there would have been panic, everyone would have rushed home and shops and businesses would close. But we're slightly more stoic than that. Perhaps it's 30 years of conditioning by the IRA, but the way London calmly went about it's day was a tribute to why nutters with semtex will never win. I'll bet the pubs are packed tonight.
What the fuck do you think you're doing?
This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.
Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.
All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.
And if, as your MO indicates, you're an al-Qaeda group, then you're out of your tiny minds.
Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.
And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.
So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.
Watching the news this evening I was filled with pride as a Londoner. If the same thing had happened in New York or Washington DC there would have been panic, everyone would have rushed home and shops and businesses would close. But we're slightly more stoic than that. Perhaps it's 30 years of conditioning by the IRA, but the way London calmly went about it's day was a tribute to why nutters with semtex will never win. I'll bet the pubs are packed tonight.
Posted at 07:36 pm
Tue - July 5, 2005
Incompetence in government
Incompetence in government is something one
usually takes for granted, and the sad thing is that it shows few signs of being
prevented or reversed. For once, I'm not talking about the US, but my dear own
UK, where New Labour have been intent on being the people's party, which they
felt gave them the mandate to sell off every asset they could to private
companies in an effort to keep necessary renovations off the One Eyed Bastard's
balance sheet.
Briefly, PFI works something like this: I sell you the land my current hospital is on, which you then make lots of money from. You build me a newer, crappier hospital that I then lease from you, and at the end of the 30 year deal, I get to keep no assets. You can substitute hospital for railway network, school, aircraft carrier as appropriate. Anyone with half a brain could see this was a shitty deal, but good old OEB made sure it was a reality in the caring, sharing, New Labour generation.
Well, thankfully these harebrained schemes are under attack, as the public and various watchdogs are cottoning on. One particularly close to home, that involved selling off the Brompton and moving it in with St Mary's, along with the NHLI and the loss of most of the ICU beds, has been dropped, at a cost of £14 million. At least they didn't go through with it and waste £1.1 billion.
Briefly, PFI works something like this: I sell you the land my current hospital is on, which you then make lots of money from. You build me a newer, crappier hospital that I then lease from you, and at the end of the 30 year deal, I get to keep no assets. You can substitute hospital for railway network, school, aircraft carrier as appropriate. Anyone with half a brain could see this was a shitty deal, but good old OEB made sure it was a reality in the caring, sharing, New Labour generation.
Well, thankfully these harebrained schemes are under attack, as the public and various watchdogs are cottoning on. One particularly close to home, that involved selling off the Brompton and moving it in with St Mary's, along with the NHLI and the loss of most of the ICU beds, has been dropped, at a cost of £14 million. At least they didn't go through with it and waste £1.1 billion.
Posted at 11:54 am
Tue - October 5, 2004
And they claim to be a democracy?
There's an interesting programme on Radio 4 about
gerrymandering and the effect it has on democracy in the US: click me and listen
.
This fine tradition dates back to 1812 when Mass. governor Elbridge Gerry decided to redraw his boundaries to resemble a salamander that also happened to give him lots more votes, and has most recently been used in Tom DeLay's plan for a thousand glorious years of republican rule (or the rapture, whichever comes first). However, it's not like the Democrats are innocent - 1991 saw an equally egregious act by Texas democrats.
Further, the mandatory redistricting every 10 years positively encourages it. With only about 15 seats in the house of representatives up for grabs, how much longer will the US continue to have democratic elections before they replace the ballot box with govt appointed gauleiters? Why bother turning out to vote if the answer was determined with a computer program and census data?
With the lack of competitive seats Congress, has the US created it's own House of Lords. where privilege, birthright and patronage gain you a seat in the political process?
Oh, and here's a picture of the original gerrymander:
This fine tradition dates back to 1812 when Mass. governor Elbridge Gerry decided to redraw his boundaries to resemble a salamander that also happened to give him lots more votes, and has most recently been used in Tom DeLay's plan for a thousand glorious years of republican rule (or the rapture, whichever comes first). However, it's not like the Democrats are innocent - 1991 saw an equally egregious act by Texas democrats.
Further, the mandatory redistricting every 10 years positively encourages it. With only about 15 seats in the house of representatives up for grabs, how much longer will the US continue to have democratic elections before they replace the ballot box with govt appointed gauleiters? Why bother turning out to vote if the answer was determined with a computer program and census data?
With the lack of competitive seats Congress, has the US created it's own House of Lords. where privilege, birthright and patronage gain you a seat in the political process?
Oh, and here's a picture of the original gerrymander:
Posted at 01:13 pm
Tue - September 28, 2004
But it's dark outside!
Tuesday mornings are journal club mornings. Out
here in the wilds of Kentucky they like to start early. 8 am early.
I'm still not a morning person.
I'm still not a morning person.
Posted at 12:31 pm
Fri - September 3, 2004
Make of this what you will.
Apparently if you're going to boil frogs, you can
put them in a saucepan full of cold water and then increase the heat slowly. By
the time they notice the water is boiling it's too late for them to jump
out.
Here's some news coming out of NYC :
At a press conference on Wednesday morning on the West Side Highway just opposite the warehouse detention center that activists have dubbed "Guantanamo on the Hudson"activists simultaneously denounced and exulted at the extraordinary number of people who have been arrested protesting the Republican Convention: 1200 on Tuesday, nearly 1800 over the week.
That's the largest number of arrests in the history of party conventions, they noted, and coming on the heals of the hundreds of thousands who marched on Sunday, the strongest show of dissent ever mounted against a president.
But now comes the familiar litany of stories of abuse in jail, people denied access to lawyers, locked up for no reason or held for unnecessarily long stays. Bails have gone as high as $200,000 (for the kid nabbed during Sunday's puppet burning incident), while protesters are being taken to the hospital for skin reactions and asthma attacks from the chemicals and diesel soaked into the concrete floor at the Pier 57 detention center, a former bus depot, where reports are that as many as 40 protesters at a time had been crammed into the 10' by 20' pens covered in wire mesh.
Here's some news coming out of NYC :
At a press conference on Wednesday morning on the West Side Highway just opposite the warehouse detention center that activists have dubbed "Guantanamo on the Hudson"activists simultaneously denounced and exulted at the extraordinary number of people who have been arrested protesting the Republican Convention: 1200 on Tuesday, nearly 1800 over the week.
That's the largest number of arrests in the history of party conventions, they noted, and coming on the heals of the hundreds of thousands who marched on Sunday, the strongest show of dissent ever mounted against a president.
But now comes the familiar litany of stories of abuse in jail, people denied access to lawyers, locked up for no reason or held for unnecessarily long stays. Bails have gone as high as $200,000 (for the kid nabbed during Sunday's puppet burning incident), while protesters are being taken to the hospital for skin reactions and asthma attacks from the chemicals and diesel soaked into the concrete floor at the Pier 57 detention center, a former bus depot, where reports are that as many as 40 protesters at a time had been crammed into the 10' by 20' pens covered in wire mesh.
Posted at 08:45 am
Thu - August 26, 2004
Clones
Well, the new school year started yesterday here
at UK. As a result, you need to be here before 8.30 if you want any chance of
finding a parking spot. I guess it just makes me hate the students even more.
Thank god I don't have to teach any of them.
They all look like they've been stamped out of a mould. They all wear the same baggy shorts, the same t-shirt with a collar, the same big rucksack. When I was a fresher at King's there was a certain diversity amongst us. Here it seems to be one bland monoculture.
Went to see Dr Strangelove at the Kentucky Theatre last night.
They all look like they've been stamped out of a mould. They all wear the same baggy shorts, the same t-shirt with a collar, the same big rucksack. When I was a fresher at King's there was a certain diversity amongst us. Here it seems to be one bland monoculture.
Went to see Dr Strangelove at the Kentucky Theatre last night.
Posted at 08:42 am
Fri - August 20, 2004
Blunkett should let people have their guns back.
Yet another rant, again on the topic of the animal
rights terrorists. Apparently the bastards are now targeting an entire village in an effort to stop a guinea pig
breeder. If some fucker wants to come break my windows in the middle of the
night and threatens to petrol bomb me and my family because I refuse to
ostracise my neighbour, then why shouldn't I be allowed to fill them full of
buckshot at 2 am?
Posted at 11:07 am
Sun - August 15, 2004
The t-shirt thief strikes again!
This is too much. For years I have been followed
around the world by a t-shirt thief. Some of you will have had the missfortune
to hear me rant about him, usually with a pint or two inside me, wistful
feelings of regret over t-shirts past, old t-shirts I loved and cannot find
anymore.
In 1998 Michael and I went to NYC. I came back laden with Stüssy t-shirts, and within a few months one was kidnapped - a grey t shirt with a lion motif. A few years later it was followed by a limited edition white Stüssy shirt with a cartoon drawing of Bruce Lee on it. I had a shock sitting on the 49 bus one day when I saw a young asian guy wearing the same shirt - it took all my composure not to confront him then and there, but he was bigger than me and I'm sure it wasn't the very same one.
My very first Diesel t shirt went the same way - a blue t shirt that came in a pot, the D logo smeared from an encounter with an iron.
Since then my wardrobe has been targeted with a cold precision - months will pass, a false sense of security grows, and then bam! I've been followed from North to South London, to California and now Kentucky. I've hung all my clothes in one of the two closets in our bedroom, arranged by colour, and missing from there is my grey NIH shirt. I also thought my Scripps t-shirt was gone too, and that the perp had switched his MO and was now targeting science shirts, but in the course of writing this entry Elle has pointed out my leaving present atop the tumble dryer. OK. But I'm telling you, there's someone out there, dressed in my clothes.
In 1998 Michael and I went to NYC. I came back laden with Stüssy t-shirts, and within a few months one was kidnapped - a grey t shirt with a lion motif. A few years later it was followed by a limited edition white Stüssy shirt with a cartoon drawing of Bruce Lee on it. I had a shock sitting on the 49 bus one day when I saw a young asian guy wearing the same shirt - it took all my composure not to confront him then and there, but he was bigger than me and I'm sure it wasn't the very same one.
My very first Diesel t shirt went the same way - a blue t shirt that came in a pot, the D logo smeared from an encounter with an iron.
Since then my wardrobe has been targeted with a cold precision - months will pass, a false sense of security grows, and then bam! I've been followed from North to South London, to California and now Kentucky. I've hung all my clothes in one of the two closets in our bedroom, arranged by colour, and missing from there is my grey NIH shirt. I also thought my Scripps t-shirt was gone too, and that the perp had switched his MO and was now targeting science shirts, but in the course of writing this entry Elle has pointed out my leaving present atop the tumble dryer. OK. But I'm telling you, there's someone out there, dressed in my clothes.
Posted at 08:10 pm
Wed - July 21, 2004
Nevermind Iraq, shouldn't they be doing something about this?
In my previous dispatch I reported that the UK,
£ for £, is leading scientific research. I also mentioned that I am
part of the brain drain, and here's another reason why. MI5 might be claiming
that Parliament Sq needs to be cordoned off, but no one seems to be doing
anything about the animal rights terrorists (and they really are) yet again
being allowed to force through their agenda and prevent the construction of yet another research facility.
As long as extremists of this kind receive the support of large swathes of the population, and as long as the government refuses to do anything to change public opinion and crack down on these criminals, science in the UK will suffer.
You could always try writing to the government, but as I found out, all it gets you is a form letter.
As long as extremists of this kind receive the support of large swathes of the population, and as long as the government refuses to do anything to change public opinion and crack down on these criminals, science in the UK will suffer.
You could always try writing to the government, but as I found out, all it gets you is a form letter.
Posted at 09:23 am
Mon - June 14, 2004
A bad day for England...
Oh dear. This weekend was positively packed with
sport. There was the the 24 hours of Le Mans, the Canadian Grand
Prix and England v. France. Unfortunately, none of it
went our way. Johnny Herbert, Guy Smith and Jamie Davies drove the wheels off
their Audi R8, but to no avail - the Japanese run,
team Goh car gave Tom Kristensen his 6th win. In 8
races!
We fared little better in Montreal. Button drove an OK race and finished 4th, later to be bumped to 3rd thanks to Williams and Toyota running non-spec brake ducts.
And then the football. Now I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but after scoring at the end of the first half, England seemed to think that it was all done. Then France equalised, then overtook us in the last 5 minutes. I hear there was rioting in the streets of Croydon.
Also bad, but less likely to induce riots in the streets of the south east, I managed to screw up an experiment that had taken the better part of a week to run. I put a plate on a shaker for 5 minutes, but set the bloody thing too fast. I came back to find it had thrown the plate off onto the bench, where it landed upside down, spilling it's contents. Shit.
I leave for Lexington in 18 days. Elle is flying out on the 28th, and we're going to load up what little will fit in the back of the MX-5 and drive the 2300 miles across the country to arrive in our new home on July 4th. Or perhaps July 5th.
We fared little better in Montreal. Button drove an OK race and finished 4th, later to be bumped to 3rd thanks to Williams and Toyota running non-spec brake ducts.
And then the football. Now I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but after scoring at the end of the first half, England seemed to think that it was all done. Then France equalised, then overtook us in the last 5 minutes. I hear there was rioting in the streets of Croydon.
Also bad, but less likely to induce riots in the streets of the south east, I managed to screw up an experiment that had taken the better part of a week to run. I put a plate on a shaker for 5 minutes, but set the bloody thing too fast. I came back to find it had thrown the plate off onto the bench, where it landed upside down, spilling it's contents. Shit.
I leave for Lexington in 18 days. Elle is flying out on the 28th, and we're going to load up what little will fit in the back of the MX-5 and drive the 2300 miles across the country to arrive in our new home on July 4th. Or perhaps July 5th.
Posted at 07:01 pm
Mon - March 29, 2004
Urban planning? We don't need any of that...
Listening to NPR this morning, they had the results of a
quality of life survey about living in San Diego, 45% of respondents said that
traffic was the greatest threat to the quality of life in this fair city. No
shit.
Some bright spark has decided that the only road out of this suburban hell I currently reside in needs to be knocked down from 2 lanes to one, despite there being a shiny new road that looks like it's been finished for months. Instead of it taking me 20 minutes to drive 4 miles, it now takes 45 minutes. And the best part? Roadworks are going to be there until May. May! That's 2 months. If I ever get my hands on the person responsible...
Still, I'll likely as not be out of here by the end of June, what with money running out and the search for a new job.
Here's a picture of a fat cat sleeping on his back to lift the mood.
Some bright spark has decided that the only road out of this suburban hell I currently reside in needs to be knocked down from 2 lanes to one, despite there being a shiny new road that looks like it's been finished for months. Instead of it taking me 20 minutes to drive 4 miles, it now takes 45 minutes. And the best part? Roadworks are going to be there until May. May! That's 2 months. If I ever get my hands on the person responsible...
Still, I'll likely as not be out of here by the end of June, what with money running out and the search for a new job.
Here's a picture of a fat cat sleeping on his back to lift the mood.
Posted at 10:18 pm
Thu - February 5, 2004
Liars, or idiots?
The UK government is now claiming that they never
gave the country the impression that Iraq had anything more complicated than
battlefield munitions, and cannot imagine how people got the impression that
within 45 minutes, the UK or her interests could be attacked. Nothing at all to
do with the front page of the Sun, I'm, sure. Tony Blair said he never asked,
despite Robin Cook claiming to have known, and Geoff Hoon told the today program this morning
that he only saw the claim in the Sun recently, and that it wasn't an important
issue. The mind boggles. About 10 million people read the Sun (although I'm
sure Brook will correct me if I'm wrong). More importantly, Hoon told the Hutton inquiry that he had seen
the front page of the Sun. So, he's either a liar, or an idiot. Either way, I
don't see his position being tenable. He tried to deflect attention by claiming
that Iraq had illegally extended the range of their missiles. One might
remember that this was because they were underweight, and instead of having a
range of 90 km, they now went 120 km. Wow. I’m just shaking in my
boots.
It seems that the reason that herd of sheep better known as the parlimentary labour party, and the most of the UK were under the impression that the UK was in clear and present danger from Iraq, and that's why they let Blair take them to war. Now there's proof that this was a lie, are they going to do something about it?
Finally, it might just be coincidence, but just as the argument was getting heated, both the radio stream and all the BBC's websites dropped off the face of the earth, only to come back online 20 minutes later. Oddly enough, the same thing happened a few days ago, also when the government was getting a hard time. I'm just saying, that's all.
It seems that the reason that herd of sheep better known as the parlimentary labour party, and the most of the UK were under the impression that the UK was in clear and present danger from Iraq, and that's why they let Blair take them to war. Now there's proof that this was a lie, are they going to do something about it?
Finally, it might just be coincidence, but just as the argument was getting heated, both the radio stream and all the BBC's websites dropped off the face of the earth, only to come back online 20 minutes later. Oddly enough, the same thing happened a few days ago, also when the government was getting a hard time. I'm just saying, that's all.
Posted at 02:11 pm
Fri - January 16, 2004
No, I've not forgotten...
Ok, it's been longer than the day I thought would
pass.
It's been a busy couple of weeks. I discovered that it might be time to start looking for a new position sooner than I thought thanks to the vagaries of funding.
I also discovered that thanks to oddities with visa regulations, I might not be able to leave the US for a year. See, you have a visa, and you have a visa stamp. The stamp is the thing in your passport with your picture that lets you go out and come back again. One (the visa) can be renewed easily. The other (the stamp) requires me now to return to the UK, make an appointment at the US embassy, have an interview and then wait (4-8 weeks) for approval, and possibly another 2 weeks for the stamp to be issued. All of which would have to be taken as unpaid leave. Not really a satisfactory state of affairs, so apologies to all i told I'd see next year in the UK, it might be a while before I'm back in that green and pleasant land.
It's been a busy couple of weeks. I discovered that it might be time to start looking for a new position sooner than I thought thanks to the vagaries of funding.
I also discovered that thanks to oddities with visa regulations, I might not be able to leave the US for a year. See, you have a visa, and you have a visa stamp. The stamp is the thing in your passport with your picture that lets you go out and come back again. One (the visa) can be renewed easily. The other (the stamp) requires me now to return to the UK, make an appointment at the US embassy, have an interview and then wait (4-8 weeks) for approval, and possibly another 2 weeks for the stamp to be issued. All of which would have to be taken as unpaid leave. Not really a satisfactory state of affairs, so apologies to all i told I'd see next year in the UK, it might be a while before I'm back in that green and pleasant land.
Posted at 08:08 pm
Tue - November 25, 2003
If it doesn't arrive, I'm not going to be happy...
Today is the 25th. I've had no car since the
15th. I live in suburban hell, 22 miles from work. Having no car here is like
having no legs. The saga continues. First it goes to the wrong zipcode. Then
Fedex don't deliver to residences on Mondays(?). Now I get a 7 am phonecall
from Fedex asking me where the hell this address is. If i come home and find no
car battery I'll go on a rampage.
Posted at 11:26 am
Mon - October 13, 2003
Hello? Is that customer support? I, er, I, oh, nevermind...
Monday morning, and I'm back online at home.
After cursing the name of SBC over the past couple of weeks for telling me that
they'd connected the phones, when in fact they'd lied and not bothered, our DSL
finally got connected again, only a week later than planned. After waking this
morning, head still full of strange dreams involving vampires, I set about
getting the house connected to the rest of the world again, without much luck.
Try as I might, the wireless bridge wouldn't connect to the
modem.
I tried calling SBC, but they told me that they didn't deal with routers, and I'd have to phone Linksys. I did so, and spent 30 minutes on hold, before I finally got a tech on the line. She spent 10 minutes walking me through things I already knew, at which point I noticed it - Brains here had stuck the ethernet cables into the wrong ports. A 15 second rearrangement and everything was working fine. Moral of the story? You can scream and shout all you like, but if it's your cock up, you should probably own up.
In other news, Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 came out this Friday, and what a film it is. Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, Sonny Chiba and Samurai swords, a stunning soundtrack, great fights and good dialogue. I really can't recommend it enough.
Oh, and the F1 season drew to a close with a great race in Suzuka, Japan. Great, except for Williams dropping the ball yet again with JPM and losing the constructors championship, and Michael Schumacher taking his 6th world title, secured with a single point for 8th place after starting 14th, losing his nose in an avoidable prang with Sato and a damn fine job of moving through the traffic. Although I'd rather JPM were winning the WDC, you've got to admire the work of the Red Baron.
I tried calling SBC, but they told me that they didn't deal with routers, and I'd have to phone Linksys. I did so, and spent 30 minutes on hold, before I finally got a tech on the line. She spent 10 minutes walking me through things I already knew, at which point I noticed it - Brains here had stuck the ethernet cables into the wrong ports. A 15 second rearrangement and everything was working fine. Moral of the story? You can scream and shout all you like, but if it's your cock up, you should probably own up.
In other news, Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 came out this Friday, and what a film it is. Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, Sonny Chiba and Samurai swords, a stunning soundtrack, great fights and good dialogue. I really can't recommend it enough.
Oh, and the F1 season drew to a close with a great race in Suzuka, Japan. Great, except for Williams dropping the ball yet again with JPM and losing the constructors championship, and Michael Schumacher taking his 6th world title, secured with a single point for 8th place after starting 14th, losing his nose in an avoidable prang with Sato and a damn fine job of moving through the traffic. Although I'd rather JPM were winning the WDC, you've got to admire the work of the Red Baron.
Monday morning, and I'm back online at home.
After cursing the name of SBC over the past couple of weeks for telling me that
they'd connected the phones, when in fact they'd lied and not bothered, our DSL
finally got connected again, only a week later than planned. After waking this
morning, head still full of strange dreams involving vampires, I set about
getting the house connected to the rest of the world again, without much luck.
Try as I might, the wireless bridge wouldn't connect to the
modem.
I tried calling SBC, but they told me that they didn't deal with routers, and I'd have to phone Linksys. I did so, and spent 30 minutes on hold, before I finally got a tech on the line. She spent 10 minutes walking me through things I already knew, at which point I noticed it - Brains here had stuck the ethernet cables into the wrong ports. A 15 second rearrangement and everything was working fine. Moral of the story? You can scream and shout all you like, but if it's your cock up, you should probably own up.
In other news, Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 came out this Friday, and what a film it is. Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, Sonny Chiba and Samurai swords, a stunning soundtrack, great fights and good dialogue. I really can't recommend it enough.
Oh, and the F1 season drew to a close with a great race in Suzuka, Japan. Great, except for Williams dropping the ball yet again with JPM and losing the constructors championship, and Michael Schumacher taking his 6th world title, secured with a single point for 8th place after starting 14th, losing his nose in an avoidable prang with Sato and a damn fine job of moving through the traffic. Although I'd rather JPM were winning the WDC, you've got to admire the work of the Red Baron.
I tried calling SBC, but they told me that they didn't deal with routers, and I'd have to phone Linksys. I did so, and spent 30 minutes on hold, before I finally got a tech on the line. She spent 10 minutes walking me through things I already knew, at which point I noticed it - Brains here had stuck the ethernet cables into the wrong ports. A 15 second rearrangement and everything was working fine. Moral of the story? You can scream and shout all you like, but if it's your cock up, you should probably own up.
In other news, Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 came out this Friday, and what a film it is. Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, Sonny Chiba and Samurai swords, a stunning soundtrack, great fights and good dialogue. I really can't recommend it enough.
Oh, and the F1 season drew to a close with a great race in Suzuka, Japan. Great, except for Williams dropping the ball yet again with JPM and losing the constructors championship, and Michael Schumacher taking his 6th world title, secured with a single point for 8th place after starting 14th, losing his nose in an avoidable prang with Sato and a damn fine job of moving through the traffic. Although I'd rather JPM were winning the WDC, you've got to admire the work of the Red Baron.
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