I prefer to actually enjoy what's happening rather than viewing it through a tiny lens so I can reminisce about it later on in the company of people who don't care.

It's only one word in German.

I have actually written some software to plan projects this way (working backwards from deadlines), as it's basically how things work in reality.

If anyone's interested I'd be happy to hand out a few beta invites.

A photon has no mass, so if each on bit is represented by either a photon or no-photon, and assuming Cowboy Neal can carry 80kg, the total amount of information he can carry is 80,000/0.

If he sticks to 1.9g 16GB SD cards though then he can only carry 645TB, a rather shocking 100% decrease in information carrying capacity.

Places that aren't mentioned in the guide books often:

  - The Sir John Soane museum. Like the British Museum, but squashed into a residential property. 150 paintings in one (British size) room - bits of the walls fold out. A 3000 year old sarcophagus. Original plans for the Bank of England.

  - The clock gallery at the British Museum. Mechanisms!

  - Monmouth coffee in the seven dials (or by Borough Market, which is also worth visiting).

  - 7th floor bar at the Tate Modern. Second cheapest place to get a good view of the London panorama.

  - Primrose hill. The cheapest place to get a view of the London panorama.

AND incredible features like instant sleep on close/hibernate on low power that require support from both software and hardware.

I guess that would explain why my MacBook Pro (running Ubuntu 8.10) has exactly the same suspend behavior... Linus has been breaking into 1 infinite loop and stealing code from OS X! You would have thought he would have learned after the whole SCO incident.

I spent some time working in an office where all the internal walls were made of glass.

As a result I can now write mirrored block capitals fairly fluidly - certainly fast enough to scrawl messages on co-workers office walls that make them snigger before they can hang up the phone.

Because from the outside of the office they were hard to read I didn't get into trouble until I progressed onto drawings. In hindsight the realistic colours were a mistake.