Google Earth

Google Earth is absolutely awesome. Go play. NOW!

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Exim statistics and Perl

Just to reinforce that fact that this is a techno poof blog, I've uploaded three of my scripts for doing statistics with Exim, ClamAV and some Perl.

a l e x l o m a s . c o m - Exim statistics scripts

There's even a mailing list to go with them. How swish :)

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Vote me

I've entered the BBC's "Picture of Britain" photography competition.

So, if you do like anything I've done, go click on these links and vote :)

www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61644
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61666
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61654

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Bisexual Doctor Who Companions

So perfect, it's bound to enrage the Daily Mail. Gay kissing on Doctor Who.

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Edinburgh Review

We've just spent the last few days up in Edinburgh - purportedly to go hot air ballooning but sadly the Scottish weather let us down. If you're so inclined, some of the better pictures are up in the Gallery.

So therefore, I thought I'd do a little review of things to do and not to do in Edinburgh:

- Whisky Tour Skip straight past that bloody castle and the thousands of tourists and go and get sloshed. It's worth paying for the extra tasting session in the bar at the end as well. Very informative, fun and most importantly, involves Scotch eau d'vie.

- Raj Restaurant on the Shore in Leith Avoid, avoid, avoid. Dreadful place which on the surface appears to be an excellent modern Indian; actually turns out to be an eye-watering backwater with surly, incompetent and forgetful staff.

- Smoke Stack (Broughton Street and also in Leith) Fab staff, quite meat centric but well worth a visit. Very high quality food at pretty reasonable prices.

- Sala gay cafe bar The tapas was excellent, cheap and the place was filled with pretty boyz. What more could you ask for?!

- Ardmor House hotel If you're gonna stay anywhere, stay here. Small but well decorated, it's in a quieter part of the city but only 15-20 minutes from Broughton Street and 30 to Princes Street. Breakfast is ace.

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Superconductor fun

I bought a kit from wondermagnet.com that included a little slice of superconductor and a small gold plated Ne-Fe-B rare earth magnet. When you get the superconductor superconducting (by cooling it with liquid nitrogen) the magnet floats above it.

Watch and grin:

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(Sorry about the quality by the way and the fact it's in WMV format)

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Armbands

Abso-fucking-lutely

(On b3ta.com this afternoon)

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