Benjamin M. A'Lee (bma)

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Testing Mendeley's new internal IRC server. Next on the list: replacing the internal mailing lists with an NNTP server. IT'S THE FUTURE.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

France bans Muslims from praying in the street. http://ur1.ca/53qnv Looking forward to the ban on carol-singing.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Quite enjoying http://olduse.net/ — especially the 30-year-old sysadminly ranting.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Is there an upper bound to the quantity of milk that can be absorbed by a bowlful of Shredded Wheat?

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Dear person smoking underneath our window: I'm going to buy some water balloons, you're fucking asking for it.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

What part of "nuclear disarmament" do @CNDuk think relates to nuclear power? Sick of hearing more about power stations than weapons.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Have been asked to send a fax to our domain registrar to confirm a transfer. Oh, those Germans and their sense of humour.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Today I learned: banana cake looks deceptively similar to carrot cake if you don't read the label.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Apparently the hairs all over the desks are from plane tree seeds. That's somewhat less disturbing.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Someone appears to be moulting all over my desk.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

OH: "If the EDL don't like it they should just go back where they came from."

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Attempting to brew tea in a cafetiere, in the absence of a usable teapot.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Chrom{e,ium} obeys $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which is good. Then it goes and puts cache data there instead of using $XDG_CACHE_HOME. D'oh.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Much as I love Doctor Who, I wish they'd stop mucking about with the theme tune. Bring back (one of) the 80s versions.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Good tea, though. If you don't mind having to hold it over the sink to pour.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Just bought a teapot and some proper tea. Unfortunately the pot has at least one hole too many.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Lifetime ban on gay men donating blood reduced to 12-month ban from Nov 7. http://ur1.ca/518qs Still not perfect, but it's a start.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Holy crap, my MP actually expressed an opinion. I didn't think that was allowed.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

If grub2 fucks up again I'm giving up and installing syslinux.

Benjamin M. A'Lee

Does anybody actually use flowcharts when designing software? I don't mean class diagrams but actual step-by-step flowcharts.