Red's Ramblings v.2

BBC NEWS | Education | Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive’ “A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency’s annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims.” Again they are confusing the image of a pig being offensive to Muslims with the eating of its flesh. There [...]

In preparation for the latest UGVX Forza race I needed a Corrado and once that was acquired I needed to give it a paint job. What better idea than to do an Aperture Science GLaDOS design. I just need to fit neural toxin emitters to the rear bumpers and get a few cakes to keep [...]

Along with many other of my Mac ‘nerd’ brethren I sat at my screen yesterday using whatever resources were at hand to monitor proceedings in Steve’s MacWorld keynote. I settled on an IRC channel and a dodgy live video feed that got rumbled by security half way through. I’d seen all the rumours and had [...]

I just came across a desktop screen shot that had stack items in a drawer. With a little digging I found this blog translation based on an original Japanese post on downloading and using the overlay icons. I’ve just put them over my stacks and they not only look cool but also a lot tidier [...]

Microsoft has always had a mixed reception and have been the but of many a joke but of late there seems to be an increased level of criticism. See the recent responses to the BBC interview and an amusing article here. This could perhaps be levelled at Vista user venting their frustrations, or perhaps its [...]

I kind of think that the BBC miss the point of covering football matches having sat through Aston Villa v Manchester United on Match of the Day last night. Through much of the match we were constantly reminded that it wasn’t the best of matches by John Motson and Mark Lawrenson spitting their dummies out [...]

Not quite the white rabbits first post of the year but close enough. I’d thought I’d give you a run through of my New Year celebrations. We’d made the decision to visit my Dad up on the west coast of Scotland earlier on in the year and I’d been looking forward to it but as [...]

Dear Security Professional, I’m delighted to let you know that you are one of the first respondents to VeriSign’s recent direct mail offer. That means that you are the lucky winner of the enclosed free gift! or so the letter went. The enclosed free gift was a 1GB USB memory stick but what they failed [...]