The speak-hole would slide open.

God help me, I'm on IM. dgerard@gmail.com on Jabber. If you can't be bothered with Gaim I believe you can use the Javascript chat client on your Gmail page. I'm available by arrangement. (If I wanted to be interrupted at random I'd tell everyone my phone number or something.)

Now up: ashbet, cavalorn, lucybond, arkady and I down the Dev on the evening of June 25th, after the dollie picnic. Andi's intrinsic modelling poise and grace is indisputable.

For the Dev shots, I was seeing just what I could get in low light with ISO 400 and EV -1 to -2. Results are variable but promising, even with having to beat the crap out of the shots to lift them out of the noise. I so want an Ixus 800 IS.

My favourite Picasa feature: cutting and pasting edits done to a photo. My least favourite: the undo is sorely limited — one mistake and you can only undo all edits to the photo in question. But they're on the right track.

( Andi pics! )

The master's a bastard, but don't tell Sunday's slave.

• If you're in San Francisco, there's still time to get to the Generic Protest. Don't forget your blank sign.

• Files are not for sharing. Teach your children well!

• The self-published slushpile.

• Fabulous technological abortions of our time. My hypothesis is that the wheels came unbolted around 2001 and it's just taken this long for the shaking to be visible.

The chat interface built into the Gmail web page is horrifyingly usable. Now I just need a job to skive off. Interview tomorrow in sodding Uxbridge for a job in soddinger Brentwood. Forecast 28 degrees.

More old photos up: BOFHbof, The Cockpit EC4, Saturday 09 October 2004, in honour of sweh and syringavulgaris visiting from New York. The drunken video clips of weds will NOT be webbed. _nicolai_, what was your cousin's name again? This, by the way, was the first time I heard "The Internet Is For Porn" — Nicolai had his laptop and scrounged wifi from somewhere.

( When sysadmins and partners start drinking. )