Serenity Movie Fight Rehearsal

Don't normally post links to YouTube but this posting by Batteries4Holden shows the rehearsal for the bar fight in Maidenhead in the movie Serenity rocks. Because you can see more and the lighting is better and the camera is more stable I think it's better than the fight in the actual movie. Bridget Riley is the stunt woman.

QR Codes API

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=256&chl=http://www.cubbyhole.org/bioblog&chld=H

Homework Issues

It's not often that a link that someone sends me actually makes me Laugh Out Loud for real. This picture and the comment underneath are a cautionary tale about the folly of making assumptions and is one of the few links that did. I hope it's true rather than made up but either way it's funny.

More flies droppings

It seems like bad things come in threes. In the last week 3 people who have affected my life have died:

First, Patrick McGoohan at the age of 80 on January 13th. Watching The Prisoner on Channel 4 in digs when too poor to go out.

Second, Tony Hart at the age of 83 on January 18th. Vision On was a part of my childhood.

Third, Mahmut Aygün at the age of 87 on January 20th. Who? The Turkish inventor of the doner kebab who first started selling them in Berlin in 1971. I shall celebrate his life by partaking of a large example of his invention tonight.

Sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Remote Desktop

i wanted to change the admin password on my web server through remote desktop, but Ctrl-Alt-Delete always goes to the local computer.

i found out you can also use Ctrl-Alt-End to achieve the same thing, which works in remote desktop.

Dropping like Flies

No link. Just a sad comment that Michael Crichton died on Tuesday 4th November aged only 66. Forget the newer stuff like ER and Jurassic Park, good as it is, classics like The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man and Westworld are one of the reasons I got into Science Fiction in the first place.

Amazon Window Shopping BETA

Now this is a new interface for amazon shopping. Fairly easy to figure out: use the arrow keys to move around and the spacebar to zoom in/out. I didn't like the way I was forced up to the top of a column when I moved sideways. I wanted to stay part-way down the column where I was