Thank you
Haven't heard that joke in 25 years, so thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Posts by Dave Harris
270 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2007
Chattanooga devil dog eats cop cruiser
Two jailed for smutty texts
Whatever happened to the email app?
Oz watchdog nips Pammie Anderson's bikini-clad ass
NHS denies pre-election stitch-up
Tuesday 2nd March 2010 17:47 GMT
Purdah
At this time in an election cycle, the civil service generally enters a state of purdah. No new announcements will be made, no new contracts will be signed *that weren't due to be signed*, the machinery of government, ie civil service, carries on.
That is not to say that Ministers and special advisers, ie, political appointees, won't make announcements.
Just a point of order; as you were...
US must redesign killer hot dogs
Double-Take disaster recovery takes to the clouds
Argentinians invade Falkland Islands website
Monday 22nd February 2010 16:42 GMT 
I see wins
If it were to get a bit naughty in the South Atlantic again, it could actually be quite a win for whatever government in the UK: they get to launch a popular expeditionary force, backed up by the red-tops, and also use the deployment to scale down the numbers in Helmand et al, winning over the "ZaNuLieBOre/BLIaR" whingers.
In fact, Kirchner and Brow/Cameron/Clegg (look, it *could* happen, ok) make a secret deal, and just get the squaddies running around having the biggest paintball battle in history. Status quo preserved (cos we'll win, obviously), and no-one's any the wiser until the boys come back with their DPMs stained all colours of the rainbow.
<-- That grenade's filled with paint.
Monday 22nd February 2010 16:36 GMT
Reminds me
There's an excellent bit in "Don't cry for me, Sergeant-Major" where a survival guy/Falklands specialist is talking to the squaddies on their spring cruise south in April '82 about foraging for food locally.
(Paraphrasing from memory): "If you're feeling a little peckish and you see a nice hole in the ground and think, ooh, a nice juicy fat bunny, do not stick your hand down it. Them holes have penguins in'em, what are vicious little buggers that'll have your fingers off in a trice."
Small firms say UK taxes are strangling growth
Tuesday 16th February 2010 17:12 GMT
Alternatively known as...
PAYE,ie your employees' income tax, VAT, Corporation tax, NI, accountant/book-keepers' fees, are a cost of doing business. If you can't figure that into your business plan, or your electricity bill, or rent, or insurance, or equipment/software purchasing, do you have the nous to be in be=usines in the first place?
Alambritis and his acolytes at the FSB (he's not mentioned in the article - retired?) have been banging on about this for decades. And he's been wrong every time, since the FSB is just an arm arm of the Tory party, and always has been.
Echelon computers can't cope with bad lines
Labour MP denies calling Tories 'scum-sucking pigs' on Twitter
Tuesday 16th February 2010 17:06 GMT
Regret?
I wish he'd just had the balls to stand up and say "I called them scum-sucking picking pigs because, guess what? They're scum-sucking pigs! I may have had my snout in the trough, but at least I put it right in, rather than use a straw and pretend I was nowhere near it."
And let's face it, when Dodgy Dave gets in, we're even more fucked than we are now.
Intel joins Nokia in Android attack
Westminster politicos told to grasp Vista nettle
New airlock mini-sub for US Navy SEAL 'operations'
'Clumsy' French cop tasers schoolkid
Labour Party told to stop spam-calls
French poised to seize Port of Dover
New cig peril: Third-hand smoke coats puffers in poison
Tuesday 9th February 2010 10:40 GMT
Replace the walls?
"the Berkeley profs recommend that the carpets, walls, furniture and ceilings be replaced."
Er doesn't that normally mean rebuilding the bloody thing? So we have to rebuild anywhere people have smoked? Is this 'research' to be used of the driver for some sort of Keynesian mass rebuilding programme?
Where the fuck do we get to smoke in peace now? Or do we have to take our chances with the bears having a dump?
Air France offers two-seat deal for fatties
Wednesday 20th January 2010 16:10 GMT
Abso-bloody-lutely
Why do admittedly skinny fuckers like me get charged the earth for an extra kilo, while some lardarse gutbucket (h/t NTNOCN), who can barely restrain the equivalent weight of my entire luggage with his belt, fly on the same damn fare as me.
Beer, because I need it to have a chance of sleeping if I'm sat next to one.
BlackBerry gets Quickr with Lotus
IBM's 'Project Vulcan' sneak peeks Lotus Notes future
Tuesday 19th January 2010 10:42 GMT
Hmmm
AC, I suggest you or your administrators learn how Notes/Domino works first. It sounds like you may be using a local replica for your mail, rather than the server-based replica, in which case you may only be polling for new mail (up to) every fifteen minutes. Don't worry, it's a setting you can change easily.
McKinnon: The longest ever game of pass the parcel
BOFH: Key performance undertakers
Angels can't fly: Official
EC drops Microsoft browser probe
3 billion have suffered Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'
US Congress seeks control over NASA moonshot
Apple responds to Nokia lawsuit, in kind
Thomas the Tank Engine drives 'conservative political ideology'
UK air traffic control goes after Wikileaks
Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy
Write haiku, win home server
IBM squishes systems software into new business unit
Thursday 19th November 2009 16:49 GMT
Interesting M&A targets
"Now it is time for IBM to get serious and buy Red Hat before Oracle does. In a pinch, snapping up Citrix Systems and Novell would also do."
I'd agree that one of the major Linux players makes sense from IBM's perspective, but I'm not sure that gaining control of both Red Hat and SUSE, through Novell, would be a great idea, and it certainly wouldn't for the wider Linux community.
US flights suffering nationwide delays
Edward Woodward dies at 79
Monday 16th November 2009 15:34 GMT 
RIP Ewar Woowar
@Eithafwr
And what do you call a man with four wooden heads?
I don't know, but Edward Woodward would
Just this weekend, we were watching Hot Fuzz, and I was trying to explain to my missus my joy at seeing Mr Woowar as a torch-and-pitchfork wielder (being from Java, parts of of which would see a Wicker man as a cooking vessel, she is unfamiliar with his work).
Sadly missed.
Gravestone, deserved, for the living statue and crusty jugglers
Google backs enormous load of balls for Olympics
Whitehall plans 'White Noise' phone network collapse
Wednesday 4th November 2009 16:52 GMT
@Nigel Callaghan
The mobile network doesn't fail during a major incident, access to it is restricted by the networks. Not such a bad an idea, really. For all the people who are trying to find out if their loved ones are safe, it's terribly distressing, but the people with approved numbers generally *really* need their phone calls to get through.
Agincourt: The sensational truth
Subterranean hive mammals may offer cancer cure
The Twitter storm that saved freedom of speech
Thursday 15th October 2009 15:43 GMT
@admirable bit of online promotion
This is, to my mind at least, a far more important issue. The order, while it stood, did indeed prevent the Graun, or any newspaper, from quoting Hansard on this particular parliamentary proceeding. Hansard is the definitive public record of parliamentary proceedings, the keyword there being "public".
Fine, I'll accept that the judge concerned wasn't aware of the question at the time, but for Carter-Fuck to threaten contempt of court proceedings for reporting parliamentary proceedings *which are already on the definitive public record* is gross abuse of the right of appearance. For the record, Contempt or Parliament trumps Contempt of Court every time.
Carter-Fuck and the partner responsible, and Trafigura's board and legal head should be dragged to the Bar of the House of Commons, in chains if required, to account for themselves.
Reg, can we have a "I'm so fucking furious my head's exploding" icon please, or a green ink/font option?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
