Whizz for Atomms cancer cracking team

http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=4244CA97-887F-42FB-8D36-D1318B93E56D
A small group of people working on the United Devices distributed computing project. Use the spare processing power of your PC to help find cures for diseases and cancer.

Parents and Friends of Gothic Mede

http://www.pfgm.org.uk
This site is to aid in raising funds for my daughter's lower school. One of these methods is via affiliate schemes. If you shop at Amazon, CD-Wow, John Lewis or many other on-line retailers you can contribute just by starting at the shopping page there. It costs you nothing extra and a percentage goes to the school.

Boycott Disney?

You may have seen that Disney are being condemned
for serving shark fin soup at their Hong Kong park. Personally I am
against foods that cause suffering to animals and over-exploit
endangered species. It's just difficult to boycott a company that is so
popular with the kids. We have loads of their videos, DVDs, books and
toys. It would be hard to explain to the children that they can't have
the next Disney/Pixar DVD due to unethical practices by the corporation.



Does anyone else have strong feelings about this?

Computer stuff

Spot the difference

05/05 I went for something small and quiet without losing much in the way of expansion capability.

See my description at Bag of spoons

06/06 Replaced the desk

The Salmon of Doubt

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Douglas Adams

This is a kind of sad book to read when you think that this talented man died at just 49 (I know if would have been funnier if he died at 42). Hitchhikers was his biggest work, but he wrote a lot more in fiction and about technology and conservation.

This book is a collection of his writings, some pulled from his PC (well, Mac) after he died. I reckon he and I had a lot in common and I would love to have met him.

The book ends with the Dirk Gently novel he was writing when he died. It's only part of the story and just ends when it is getting interesting. We'll never know how it was going to turn out, although I have an idea about what would crop up later.

I intend to check out the new HHGTTG film soon, although the clips I've seen indicate it has lost some of the charm of the radio/TV series and books.

Stockholm for work

I could watch the ferries to Finland come and go