Long liv the Stainless Steel Rat

He was, as the blurb on the back of the paperbacks said, 'The Monty Python of the spaceways' - his writing always had humour , dark though it may have been, and his prose was some of the most absorbing I have ever had the pleasure to read.

I hope someone options a few more of his works - Slippery Jim, Jason dinAlt and Bill (with two Ls) deserve some screen time...

Rest in peace, Harry - if I could write it in Esperanto, I would

yes please :)

strange emails from O2

I wonder if the strange email from o2@o2-email.co.uk is related to this change?

Anyone else get an email containing '6565' at around 1pm?

Bubble Bobble FTW

It nearly cost me my saturday job when I was younger...

I ended up with a verbal warning for being caught in the staff canteen playing 30 minutes after I was due to start

TOM BAKER FTW

Sounds like a mish-mash of everyone's upgrade strategy. The only bit I didn't see was the 18month subscription upgrade with version 3, 3S, 4, 4S where it all looks the same on the outside, but some whizzy bits on the inside get changed, and you may notice a difference

Disclaimer - happy owner of iPhone 3, 3GS and 4S

Mine's the one with a 4S in the pocket

Fairly uneventful

No real problems here. Started downloading at 7:30 pm or so, 668Mb in 50 minutes.

The only problem was with iTunes backing up my 3GS - kept on getting an error. I had to create a new account and use that to back and restore. Finished by 11pm

It's been said before, but a good thing is worth saying twice

One more thing...

Rest in peace, Steve

Condolences to family and friends. We lost a visionary.

(P.S. El Reg - can we have the St. Jobs icon back in memoriam?)

Best software name ever

I have encouraged use of the name 'Internet Exploder' since v6 on windows...

It just seems to perfectly encapsulate the entire ethos of the package

Love it

Always beer first...

Icon for obvious reasons

Definitely need more of Slippery Jim DiGriz

I am surprised that no-one has tried to do a Stainless Steel Rat film yet - it's not like there weren't enough stories to choose from

Or if you want to go even sillier, Bill, The Galactic Hero....

Reminds me of school

I remember a physics experiment at school where you had to map the electric field around a sphere by measuring the deflection of a small flame. The reason that it stick in my memory is that the sphere used was a plastic ball covered in a metallic paint, and despite the strong exhortations to not measure too closely, at least one person would destroy the ball each time the experiment was run...

That's got to be a few years ago now, though

Love the paintball

It was inevitable once the Boss starting revealing the cost-cutting for next year, but welcome nonetheless

Simon owes me a new keyboard and Magic Mouse...