A late night spam attack from some poxy online casino no doubt run by a bunch of crooks has motivated me to add a ‘human check’ to the comment form. You need to enter a code that’s in a graphic.

Of course if you are not human then you can’t comment

MSN has launched a blogging service, MSN Spaces. Using the tidy plugin for firefox I validated it. 5 errors 50 warnings. Including stupid stuff like putting div in spans. Can Microsoft not hire someone who can write HTML?

[And looseend has 20 errors, 19 are because tidy doesn't like the embedded rdf, the other is in the dodgy officecam popup provided by a technology partner ]

Nothing like a bit of good toilet humour whilst you are eating your lunchtime sandwich

This blog entry quit nicely covers why I haven’t taken the plunge into 3g. I want to use the internet with a phone, and despite the bandwidth 3g doesn’t seem to make that it easy.

At least if it does they don’t shout about it.

Riding home tonight I saw my first house with Christmas lights on it.

It’s November the 8th.

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Truly, the relational data model is a wonderful innovation, and it would be an absolute disaster to replace it with flawed persistence technologies like XMLDBs or OODBMS.

Probably never a truer word been said.

The strap on my 4 year old Swatch watch broke a couple of months ago. No meatspace shop, including the Swatch shop in London, could provide me with a new strap. My watch is apparantly non standard. The Swatch web site will only ship to US addresses. Yay for Squiggly, they have a massive range of Swatch stuff, going back years and could furnish me with a new strap that exactly matches the old one

I gave in and got a Nikon (thought not at that price).

Now I just need to find something to take picutres of The first trip out with it was not disappointing, it feels and responds just like a real camera, except you don’t have to wait for Snappy Snaps to screw up your pictures before you get to see them

Rat neruons fly F22 says wired. I saw a rat on the way into town this lunchtime. It must have been one of the old world stupid rats ‘cos it was just scurrying into the bushes and not piloting a vehicle of any kind.

I for one welcome our new rat overlords …..

At the risk of opening myself to a certain amount of ridicule, has anyone who reads this (a small but skilled group ) ever used some workflow software that’s any good?