Ubunto @ Key via synergy

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and love it; best distro so far by a long way. Used to have all kinds of keyboard problems using my Microsoft Natural Keyboard when using synergy but they seem to have fixed pretty much all of them: the most annoying was the right-hand shift key not working.

Still had problems with synergy not passing though the @ key - kept getting an OMEGA sign Ω instead, although the keyboard plugged into the Ubuntu machine works with the @ key just fine. Managed to find a fix using xmodmap: xmodmap -e "keycode 24 = q Q at at at at" sorted it but had to do this every time.

Adding "keycode 24 = q Q at at at at" (without the quotes) to .xmodmaprc in my home directory meant that at the next startup Jaunty asked me if I wanted to load the xmodmap file, choosing to add it and not display that message next time means that it loads on startup every time.

About time

Discworld street names in Wincanton, Somerset.

BBC News article

Must take a camera next time I'm passing that way.

Is this the unluckiest teenager in the UK

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Teenager's acne spells out arse

Daleks are real

there have been a whole bunch of things that I wish I'd blogged about recently but *this* one has to be done. Found by following Neil Gaiman on twitter: some people clearing out a "pond" in Hampshire found a Dalek.

Right now it's the front page story on the Doctor Who News Page and scroll down to March 4. I will probably have to find a permalink for the story later. Link on ananova but no photo there and what is probably the original story at The Telegraph with photo.

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.