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There is a growing fascist menace in this country, and with the Leave victory, they now have the upper hand. The rest of us have to realise that it's no longer business as usual. We are a minority. A large, powerful minority. But a minority. We have to put aside …

There were 240.0 billion car miles driven in the UK in 2013. That's 386.2 billion car kilometres. [source]

If electric motoring costs 0.34 kWh per kilometre (from your 4 year old link), then that requires (386.2 × 0.34 =) 131.3 TWh of extra electrical energy.

Total …

We were play testing my friend Sam's board game this weekend. It features "annihilator towers" - you build up N levels of tower, and then roll N 6-sided dice to determine the damage dealt. Here's the wrinkle though: If you roll two or more ones, then the tower explodes and the …

Apparently Twitter has been a-tweet over David Ramsey's list of "20 Things the Rich Do Every Day". Ben Irwin has posted a pointed ripose, but the original post is a hoot.

The controversial list isn't all that bad. There are a handful of good points ("81% of wealthy maintain a …

Me (calling ICICI bank): Hello, I'm trying to open a savings account, but when I click next on your form, it says "Address information cannot have special characters" - but I can't see any special characters in any of the fields I've entered.

ICICI bank: Hello sir. I'm very sorry for …

The Washington Post recently published the results of a survey that purports to show that:

the public backs giving the federal government broad authority to investigate terrorist threats, even extending to the NSA program that monitors phone records

Their first question shows a 2:1 split in favour of the …

I've switched away from BT to using a VoIP number provided by my ISP. AAISP strongly encourage their customers to avoid NAT for VoIP, but I wanted to give it a try anyway. Here's how I got it working.

Update 2013/4/10: Although this NAT set-up does work, it …

My wife Hilde and I are just embarking on our house renovation project. It's a huge change of direction for me, I find it exhilarating and a little bit scary.

I've created a new category on this blog for the project. I'll be using it to discuss various technical aspects …

Ubuntu has an irritating habit of turning off Firefox's middlemouse.contentLoadURL setting. Recently, it's got even worse - whenever I turned it back on, Ubuntu would immediately turn it back off for me. So, today I finally worked out that the problem was Ubuntu's "firefox extensions" - turned that off, and finally …

I did this ages ago. I don't know why I never posted it. Anyway, here's an interactive timeline of Ancient Egyptian history.