I’m No Chef…

…but I seem to understand basic kitchen terminology better than Sainsbury’s. If you cook the vegetables in oil in a frying pan, that’s frying, not boiling. Clue’s in the name, you see.

OMGWTFBBQ!

I’m 30 today. I don’t have anything really coherent or sensible to say about that.

New Toy: HTC Wizard

After I washed my old K750i, I needed a new phone fairly quickly. O2 sent me an HTC Wizard, which they call an XDA mini S.

Congress Time

The UK Salsa Congress starts on Friday, and the workshop schedules have just been posted (in PDF format – boo!). Is it me, or are the workshops running shorter than last year? Also, the Brit SalsaFest has just opened for bookings.

Salsa UK’s survival guide is not very helpful, so I’ll have to start making lists. Fortunately I remembered to get some new tapes for the video camera already. Since I’m off work for a few days as well, I think I might book myself in for a massage on the Tuesday after.

RAID Victory

‘R’ is for Redundant.

Workplace Stupidity

Don’t get get the message, it will make you stupid.

RAID Failure

My fileserver keeled over, and I’m still trying to put it right.

Bad Science, Bad Education

The badscience blog brings up an impressively misconceived “study” to take place in County Durham.

The Death of a Cellphone

A K750i deserved better than this.

My Little Bit of Excitement

Some stuff caught fire. I dialled 999. Strategic extinguishment solution providers arrived to do their job. News at ten.