Archive: October, 2010
Engagement
Published by Jon on October 27th, 2010 in Debian, News | 3 Comments »
матрациLast week I went to the sea side, and came back with a fiancée. Bliss. матрациLast week I went to the sea side, and came back with a fiancée. Bliss.
Facebook groups: a gift to framers
Published by Jon on October 25th, 2010 in Debian, Tech | 2 Comments »
I didn’t quite believe what I was seeing until I searched and found several other people noticing the same behaviour. For background, Facebook recently introduced the concept of groups – not in the sense we’ve been used to, but more like lists. Groups are supposed to be to lists what databases are to bits of [...]
Dear CSI and other hi-tech television producers
Published by Jon on October 14th, 2010 in Debian, Tech | 9 Comments »
Please stop perpetuating the myth that any old grainy image can be enhanced beyond all recognition. It’s not possible to read a newspaper at a thousand paces any more than it is to see around corners, even with a Really Big Computer. Every time one of my users brings me a photo and asks, “can [...]