July 18th, 2006
My Ubuntu compatriate from college recommended I try out an optimised Firefox build. They basically add some patches, then compile it for your specific architecture. I’m using the Pentium M version, and it’s very fast indeed.
The bunzip is a standalone binary, so I dumped it into /usr/local and added it’s icon to the Ubuntu menu […]
July 16th, 2006
If someone asked me what the most English place I have ever been to, I’d say Southwold. Really, it glorifies in it’s reputation of an archetypical English town: the ones you see on Midsummer Murders, the one with the bowling greens and bay-windows looking out onto overgrown hedges of hollyhocks and honeysuckle, where the crucifix […]
July 7th, 2006
He is watching her, waiting for her to say more, but there is nothing more about the English patient to be said. He mutters. “Some of the English love Africa. A part of their brain reflects the desert precisely. So they’re not foreigners there.”
“The English Patient” - Michael Ondaatje
I was in Cambridge today, colleges, that’s […]