In the beginning of Pink Floyd, way back in the mid sixties, the lead singer and guitarist was Syd Barrett. Poor old Syd couldn’t handle the pressure though, between the price of fame and the heroic doses they subjected themselves to, he suffered various kinds of breakdowns. After numerous times of forgetting to turn [...]

Every boy without a father
Every man without a son
Every woman who held her child
As the blood flowed
From life untimely ripped
Every man turned to animal
In the front lines metal hail
Every hollow eye that stared
As the shells
Still rained inside his head
When the judgement comes
They will stand on the scales
And as they condemn
So shall you be condemned
Bodies buried [...]

According to Slashdot :
“For the second time in 3 years, Segway has announced a recall of all Segway Personal Transporters. The problem described is that the Segway ‘can unexpectedly apply reverse torque to the wheels, which can cause a rider to fall. This can occur when the device is tilted back by the Speed Limiter [...]

On our way home from the Storm game Sunday night, at about 6, while waiting on the platform at Richmond station,we were informed that the train would terminate at Camberwell and be replaced by a bus to Box Hill, due to a fatal accident near Box Hill. These things happen.
We got to Camberwell, walked up [...]

Virgin Galactic is the space tourism company formed by Richard Branson. He’s not sending anyone to the space station at Lave just yet, these are just suborbital jaunts, but you know, you still get to go in a spaceship!
On the other hand, when I was young I loved flying, but now it kinda freaks [...]

“I just don’t know if we have the right,” she told me once, “to go over there and tell them that our God is better than theirs.” Many of us share this profound hesitation. We’re happy to talk about our faith with those who approach us, but we recoil at the idea of going into [...]

If you don’t get it, you should go and visit Acme Klein Bottles. They say that Klein Bottles “make great gifts, fantastic classroom displays, and inferior mouse-traps”

Nothing to see here really, just wanted to put something here that I can never remember how to do! This replaces all instances of the string rabbit, with the string blueberry, in any file that matches *.html
/usr/bin/perl -p -i -e “s/rabbit/blueberry/g” *.html
Found here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=476382

Surprising news this week. Apparently the goings on in Area 51 stopped being a big conspiracy and became public knowledge while I wasn’t looking…
ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for U.S. military contractor
ROSWELL, N.M. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents today arrested 15 illegal aliens who were working for a local [...]