December 2009
1 post
Name Doppelgänger
Weird.
Last night, I got an email from Qatar Airways, with a boarding pass for a flight today. I’m not jetting off anywhere, so it was a bit confusing… Checked the email headers, definitely from Qatar Airways. Checked the IP address it came from. Qatar. Looked at the boarding pass. Looks real enough. Hm.
I just got off the phone with Qatar Airways, where the conversation went...
October 2009
1 post
UK Visibility Chart →
August 2009
4 posts
Extract colors from photos and make color schemes... →
NATS AFPEx Training →
GFS Forecast Model Animation →
Showing The Oblomovs The Door →
“The CEO who lets the Security organization become the compliance department has abdicated to the government and Payment Card Industry his responsibility to understand and manage organizational risk….
July 2009
1 post
OS OpenSpace from Ordnance Survey →
Non-commercial maps API for the UK.
June 2009
1 post
Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video) - Boing Boing →
Absolutely horrific video from Tehran.
I watched this last night and it’s haunted me all day.
April 2009
2 posts
Microsoft is the Detroit of software →
sqlmap: automatic SQL injection tool →
February 2009
3 posts
Mosquitoes
It turns out I’m not old, after all:
What’s interesting - to me, at least - is that after I’ve heard the high-pitched sound for a short while (like in the sound clip in the link above), it remains for a while, just like tinnitus. Playing the sound again and it seems louder the second time. It’s about 5 minutes since I last played the sound, and I can still...
Eucalyptus →
Build your own EC2 infrastructure, sans Amazon.
EMA VFR Flying →
Notes on how to transit East Midlands’ airspace.
January 2009
6 posts
Free Image Galleries, Slideshows And Lightbox... →
AVGAS UK Prices →
Flyer magazine is collecting and collating AVGAS prices throughout the UK.
“A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, which is the sign of a weak...”
– Gordon Brown, 1992
Watch
December 2008
8 posts
“Children seldom misquote you, in fact they usually repeat word for word what you...”
– Anonymous
Pivotal Tracker →
Neat feature/bug tracker
Puppet →
Oops →
Anyone had a parking ticket in Aber since 2006?
Remember when you said you'd never buy a Renault?
Thanks for the reminder, Renault. I still don’t want to buy a car from you.
Front pages of newspapers reproduced...
This amazes me and scares me in roughly equal measure. Is it art, or just the output of someone who was really bored?
(via MAKE: Blog)
Ruby Advent 2008 →
Ruby/Rails tip a day
UK 5-Day Aviation Outlook Forecast from Weatherweb... →
Simon Keeling’s weather website - 5-day UK forecast
November 2008
5 posts
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall
(via svn)
Pilot blinded in mid-air guided to safety by RAF... →
Jim O’Neill was flying his Cessna plane at 15,000 feet when he suddenly lost his sight while suffering a stroke last Friday.
The 65-year-old, who had taken off from Prestwick airport and was on his way to Colchester in Essex, radioed for help and the RAF responded, sending a jet to his aid.
The military aircraft flew alongside Mr O’Neill and guided him down to land at RAF...
3 tags
Creationism should be taught as science, say 29%... →
“Twenty-nine per cent of teachers believe that creationism and intelligent design should be taught as science, according to an online survey of attitudes to teaching evolution in the UK. Nearly 50% of the respondents said they believed that excluding alternatives to evolution was counter-productive and would alienate pupils from science.”
While I can see that not discussing...
BBC NEWS | Politics | Shops may take ID card... →
The sooner we get rid of this lot, the better.
Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome →
Very interesting experiment into how people see intent. Seems I’m in the minority…
October 2008
10 posts
So when will banks give loans? →
Interesting IHT article on the US Government’s loans to US banks. Apparently these loans are not about liquidity for them to lend to their customers, but instead it’s more about liquidity for banks…
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones -... →
The UK’s slide into an Orwellian police state continues. Of course, it’ll do nothing to stop actual criminals.
Schneier on Security: How to Write Injection-Proof... →
Dead Cat Bounce
Thanks, ITV News, for your Dead Cat Bounce explanation. “If a dead cat falls from a great height, it will bounce… but it’s still dead.”
damn, I seem to have brought a cold back with me from Aberystwyth :(
The Henley Royal Northerner Show 2008 →
Genius.
hm, just heard a bird singing outside and thought twitterific was informing me of a tweet.
back from Kenya safely, off shortly on my first post-PPL flight down to Gloucester. Ah, the freedom! Ow, the expense!
VLF Transmissions on Music CDs →
Rugby VLF transmissions turn up in Tubular Bells.
Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly... →
September 2008
4 posts
They’ve only gone and given me a PPL… Hurrah!
Home from the airfield. 1h05 flying tomorrow (to get to 43hrs logged) then I’m ready for the skills test on Monday. Huzzah!
Blog, reinstated
After, um, a little over 9 months of server downtime, I’ve finally reinstated my blog. The server’s still dead, incidentally.
Other than lots of foreign travel (including such exotic locations as Kazakhstan, Kenya and Tanzania, Jersey, Poland, Spain and Liverpool), flying lessons (PPL skills test on Monday, weather-permitting!), turning 30 and all the other things that have happened...
To do before my PPL Skills Test on Monday: Flight Planning & Performance exam, 1h15 solo flying, 1h05 dual flying. By end of the weekend. Hm
July 2007
1 post
'Tardorrist
After the pathetic attempts to try and terrorise the UK in the past few days, I coined a new word:
‘Tardorrist (n) - would-be terrorist without sufficient intelligence to build and detonate an explosive device.
The problem seems to be that these new ‘tardorrists forget that the UK, for a significant number of years in its recent history, actually had real terrorists in the form of the IRA (and...
May 2007
1 post
How to win friends and influence people
I just got my latest phone bill from Vodafone today and it seemed a little higher than usual. After a bit of faffing to get online statements working, I found out what it was. I was in Jersey recently on business and it seemed that I’d been charged 50p/min for incoming calls while I was there. This seemed a little steep (I’d expected that Jersey’d be counted as “UK, so I queried it. The CSR agreed...
April 2007
1 post
It's been a long time...
… since I wrote anything here. There’s not been any real reason for the lack of updates, more just being silly busy and not really having anything particularly insightful to say.
So, what’s been happening in GarethWorld?
For those of you who follow my life from afar and don’t really get to hear much, I’ve been seeing the wonderful Penny for the past four-and-a-bit...
December 2006
1 post
Too Much Spam?
hmm. I think I’ve reached the point where I’ve seen too much spam.
I was just looking at a photos website (my sister’s just put her holiday photos online) and I saw an ad with the text “30% off all enlargements!” and jumped to completely the wrong conclusion.