Josh

1. Emails. Tell Gmail your POP and SMTP settings, ...

2009-06-10T17:43:58.562+01:00

1. Emails.
Tell Gmail your POP and SMTP settings, then use Gmail. Personally, I don't like doing this - for me, it's important which inbox an email is in - but it works very well for a lot of people. Alternatively, do what I do and learn how to set Thunderbird up by rote so you can do it in five minutes.

2. Contacts and Calendar.
Dunno.

3. Domain.
Wordpress is awesome. Get it. I think you can migrate stuff from Blogger.

There is no such thing as a FAQ for web design. Design is mostly about experience. I'm no designer, but I can pick out flaws: sketch it out and I'll help you make it.

4. Outlook.
Outlook sucks. Use a better email app.

Not sure why it replaced 1, with a crazy bullet...

2009-06-10T17:08:02.910+01:00

Not sure why it replaced 1, with a crazy bullet point, but meh.

worst thing is that I thought it was already illeg...

2009-04-09T15:05:00.000+01:00

worst thing is that I thought it was already illegal top take a picture of a police officer. Hear a story a few months ago of a couple of tourists being arrested for it.

I'm in total agreement.The police and government h...

2009-04-09T11:45:00.000+01:00

I'm in total agreement.

The police and government have gone too far. What disgusts me is how the Met and the IPCC were quite happy to brush this whole mess under the rug, until they got caught out by the public filming them.

Incidentally, they're making it illegal to film or photograph a police officer if the purpose is to "aid terrorism". You can bet they'll use it as a pretext to stop anyone keeping tabs on them.

I hope someone is organising a protest.

no idea who you are, but cheers.....

2008-12-17T14:09:00.000Z

no idea who you are, but cheers.....

You can "steal" from Wikipedia?

2008-11-17T15:07:00.000Z

You can "steal" from Wikipedia?

You stole that off Wikipedia. I know 'cos I looked...

2008-11-17T14:17:00.000Z

You stole that off Wikipedia. I know 'cos I looked it up myself - couldn't remember the exact translation. :-)

I do not disagree completely, and yes I have some ...

2008-11-17T12:22:00.000Z

I do not disagree completely, and yes I have some problems with us being there in the first place. However I cannot change that now, nor can I change anything that has happened in the past. I can only help change what is going to happen, and I believe that things would be worse if we were to withdraw from that part of the world, hence we are still there.

On related points I am completely against removing more of our freedoms to protect us from "The Terrorist Threat", including but not ending with 42/28/90 days and ID cards. I do not agree with them and will never carry one, I will quite happily go to prison before I do.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae.

I'm going to have to be very delicate with this on...

2008-11-16T15:18:00.000Z

I'm going to have to be very delicate with this one, so I pre-apologise if I don't articulate myself clearly enough.

I agree totally with the point about the conditions in which we expect our troops to fight. That we have put them out there putting their lives on the line without the equipment and support they need to be able to it is a national bloody disgrace, and the people in the government that allow the situation to continue are reprehensible.

Then there's the matter of the support and help they need, many of them for the rest of their lives, once they've returned. In some ways, the ones who simply die are the lucky ones.

However, I'm going to have to disagree with you about the best way to defend our freedoms being to send people to kill other people in the desert. This isn't the Second World War, Hannibal isn't at the gates.

This isn't a war we can win with bombs and bullets, no matter how hard we try. They don't hate us because we're free! They hate us because we've been interfering in Middle Eastern politics for decades for our own ends - for the oil, to fight the Soviets, the continuing situation with Israel and Palestine, the blood-bath that's been post-invasion Iraq. The harder we try to kill people, the more the people over there are going to resent us.

The real threat to our freedoms is right here at home, from the people who are using the terrorist threat to piss our freedoms into the wind. The government recently attempted to allow detention for 42 days, 6 weeks, without charge or trial. That's 6 weeks before they even have to tell you what you're accused of! That's a greater attack on liberty and freedom than any bomb on a Tube train.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

I'd like to be clear - I support the troops themselves. They're doing the job they've been told to do excellently under such difficult circumstances.

What I have a problem with are the politicians who have sent them there.

"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

I've got your back.-- Samir.

2008-11-16T01:03:00.000Z

I've got your back.

-- Samir.

People should read this.

2008-11-11T05:11:00.000Z

People should read this.

Oh, but that's for the glory of God!You can't be t...

2008-10-09T14:02:00.000+01:00

Oh, but that's for the glory of God!

You can't be totally devoted to God without spending tons of money on gold or marble. Obviously.

I also look forward to http://xkcd.com/401/and wou...

2008-09-09T02:56:00.000+01:00

I also look forward to http://xkcd.com/401/

and would very much like the 5TeV candy to be true.

I did not know what the detectors were called and ...

2008-09-09T02:53:00.000+01:00

I did not know what the detectors were called and what they individually did, however I now know LHCb sees where the anti-matters gone, ALICE looks at collisions of Lead ions, CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind looking for whatever new particles they can find.

I wonder if they would try to keep it quiet for a ...

2008-09-09T02:44:00.000+01:00

I wonder if they would try to keep it quiet for a while, and we would wake up every morning slightly closer to central Europe.

I seriously cannot think of any reason why a black hole would be created. Sure they collide with a lot of energy, but so do galaxies and they don't create black holes every time they do, or at least I am not aware of it if they do.

But if you don't come here you don't show up on th...

2008-09-09T02:41:00.000+01:00

But if you don't come here you don't show up on the stats, and then this post would never had existed......

I think it'd be fun if any micro black holes were ...

2008-09-09T02:28:00.000+01:00

I think it'd be fun if any micro black holes were created and didn't evaporate.

They'd only be able to interact gravitationally, and they'd have the mass of a handful of subatomic particles, so they'd hardly ever accrue mass.

It'd be such a slow and spectacular apocalypse.

I'm scared.I'd be scared and educated if I didn't ...

2008-09-09T02:26:00.000+01:00

I'm scared.

I'd be scared and educated if I didn't know all that stuff already, though.

At a guess, spambots. Check Akismet. :-)Google Rea...

2008-09-09T01:52:00.000+01:00

At a guess, spambots. Check Akismet. :-)

Google Reader reads them for me. I only come here when I want to read the rest of the post. By the by, you should have the entire post display in the feed so I don't have to come here. Makes my life easier. ;-)

France, US, UK, Russia and China are the 5 permane...

2008-06-10T19:36:00.000+01:00

France, US, UK, Russia and China are the 5 permanent members of the security council, the first 5 countries to get nuclear weapons, and the only countries permitted to own them under Nuclear non-proliferation treaties.

Strictly speaking, it's illegal for India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea to have them.

It's a tricky issue, though. There aren't any easy answers. The way I see it, nuclear weapons are a genie you can't stuff back into the bottle, or Pandora's box that you can't close again.

You can however, try and stop the box opening any further.

I really like these two eps as well - what's reall...

2008-06-10T19:30:00.000+01:00

I really like these two eps as well - what's really mad is that when you look at the Who forums, some people are really negative - I think the Moffat backlash has already begun. But then, I think these are the same kind of "fans" who actually just hate the show.

The next two are apparently two sides of the same story, one's Donna-lite and the other is Doctor-lite, thus fulfilling the requirement of having one "Doctor+Companion-lite" episode a year.

Won't be as good as Blink.

I think I might actually be warming to Tate, she really isn't that bad at all.

Heh, that's true. Don't use Google Reader though, ...

2008-06-10T19:27:00.000+01:00

Heh, that's true. Don't use Google Reader though, so I have no idea.

I am ignoring the infinite sums over sums and hopi...

2008-05-26T21:16:00.000+01:00

I am ignoring the infinite sums over sums and hoping it doesn't come up.

Th past exam papers really do not look that bad, the sheer volume of material just puts me off.

I dunno, I'm getting on better with Thermo, I thin...

2008-05-26T21:02:00.000+01:00

I dunno, I'm getting on better with Thermo, I think.

Right now I'm up to my eyeballs in partition functions and grand potentials and so many motherfucking summation signs the world might actually implode.

I actually think I'm looking forward to maths methods more than this.

The real bastard is that it's on the other side of...

2008-05-25T13:00:00.000+01:00

The real bastard is that it's on the other side of the Thermo exam.

I've been trying to avoid the spoilers, mostly. But it does look cool, they've released a clip up on the website.

Bodes well that Moffat is the new Doctor Who showrunner!