So, farewell, then Syd Barrett,
talented musician beyond compare
and celebrated acid casualty.
I got one of your songs on Mark & Lard’s
Cheesily Cheerful Chart Challenge once.
A woman had given birth and then asked to
give her child back.
‘She took a long cold look’.
G.S.Thribb, 39 and a half.
* It is illegal to have more than one working brake light at any given time.
* Using indicators creates great drain on your car’s battery, so don’t bother with them.
* Speeds indicated on road signs are minimum suggested speeds.
* The white line down the middle of the road should be kept – as far as possible – under the middle of your car.
* Double-parking is permitted as long as your hazard warning lights are on.
* Pedestrians: 1 point, cyclists : 2pts, motorbikes : 5pts, nuns : 6pts, nuns on motorbikes: 5000pts.
Went on a course on Thursday. It was just down the corridor from the Crimewatch office. How tempting it was to nick the pile of newspapers left on the floor outside.
When we came back from lunch the newspapers had gone.
It wasn’t me.
Goodnight, and don’t have nightmares.
1) See The Smiths playing live (at the time of writing, as far as I know, none of the band is actually dead, but a reunion seems very, very unlikely).
2) Stand on the observation deck of the World Trade Center. Pretty damn sure about this one.
3) Tell people I live in the County of Avon. Gone and never missed.
4) Stand right outside 10 Downing Street as a tourist. Vaguely remember doing this as a small child.
5) Touch the stones at Stonehenge.
6) Get off a tube train at Strand Station
7) Go to Beijing. Okay, I know Beijing still exists and this is technically possible, but I went there and I didn’t like it and I won’t be going back.
Pretty sure my children will never do 1-6 either.
I went to a Novell event in London today. We were interested in their shift to Linux and possibly in using their Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
What I wasn’t expecting was for them to say that they were after the desktop market as well. CTO Jeff Jaffe spoke to us about his desire to get Suse Linux on most desktops in the workplace. He explained why Windows Vista is so named (it’s always somewhere on the horizon). And he looks and talks, rather spookily, a bit like Bill Gates. He must be the anti-Bill!
I’ve not tried my freebie beta copy of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 yet – but it’s clear that Novell are pretty excited about it. Jeff Jaffe made a couple of freudian slips, saying ‘desktop’ when he meant ‘server’. Or ‘sandwich’. Or indeed anything that wasn’t ‘desktop’.
As I sat there I thought that they must be crazy to go after the desktop. But then I thought about Apple and their relatively small team who can knock out release after release of OS X because they use open source components. Clearly Novell can do the same with Suse Linux, while Microsoft spend gazillions of dollars, writing everything in-house, and spending yet another year not shipping Vista. And you have to admit, Microsoft are very good at not shipping Vista.
