Something Else Less Boring
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest
Database engineers can sometimes overanalyse things…
Tea Birds: Nothing but pictures of cute girls at tea. A tea blog like no other.
There is something slightly arousing about this…
Anti-theft lunch bag
I needs one of these. I hate working in an office; everyone is a thieving bastard in my opinion.
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Apparently Mr Smith is writing a novel online. I like his ladi’e’s’s detective agency series but have not yet read his other books though the wife says they are pretty decent too. Still, good if you would like to try to influence his storytelling almost as it happens.
Taxi drivers 'have brain sat-nav'
The thing I really hate about Sydney taxi drivers is their inablity to navigate anywhere without guidance from their passengers. I am sometimes surprised to arrive home at all after particularly ‘fun’ nights due to my own lack of knowledge of this city I’ve only recently begun living in.
Anyway, some research into London cabbies, the best in the world, despite their love of the chat.
Scans from early 80s computer magazines bring me out all nostalgeek.