No more the shaggy ponies that look the same at both ends...

...as Norman Thelwell has died.

One of my favourite cartoonists, Thelwell lampooned the British middle class and its obsessions with a delightful ease. From pigtailed girls on fat little ponies, to men struggling with the agonies of DIY, his highly detailed drawings captured the eye, and drew attention to the absurdities of life.

He will be missed.

(Pity the exhibition of his work at the Cartoon Art Trust has just finished...)

Keeping track of the browser...

Mozilla Firebird is now Mozilla Firefox, with the release today of 0.8...

The Phoenix rises again, I guess...



(But will Craig Thomas complain?)

The most O'Reilly books I can carry at once...

...appears to be 22. Big ones.

Ouch.

Spot the rock group...

Seen at San Diego Zoo, a couple of weeks ago, a well known heavy rock band hiding out from the crowds...
( We cut because we're nice like that. )

Repanoramic

I wasn't at all happy with the panoramic view of San Diego harbour I posted the other day. I've since remade it using Canon's own panorama software, which is hardcoded with my digital camera's lens characteristics. I think it made a much better job of things - to the extent of being able to stitch a set of images that the other software I'd used had rejected...

Click on the images for the full size panoramas. Be warned though, they're both over 2MB...

The Turing Trainset

An implementation of a simple universal Turing Machine: using model trains.

Chuff, chuff, byte!

[link spotted by rupertg]

GIPage

Decided I liked the Firefox icon so much, I'd make it an LJ userpic.



Feel free to use.