Posts by Chris Leeson

Asterix and Tintin...

The two major memories from my childhood were Asterix and Tintin, and now that's all the great authors gone.

Asterix was my introduction to comics when they became the only interesting thing in the children's section of our local library. I didn't get on to other comics 'till my late teens, and I still hold a place for the old Asterix stories. Bell did an awesome job of translating them into English, but for the comics to be translated (and survive translation) into so many other languages (including latin, I believe) they must have had something special to start with.

Politically Insightful

Amongst other things, the Clangers' take on the General Election ("Vote for Froglet") was enough to set my political views for a lifetime.

One of the best bits of my childhood.

Ah, Nostalga...

So, does that mean that Microsoft have released yet another version of Flight Sim?

An El Reg first?

Is the comments section really going to become the biggest leaving card in history?

All the best in the new job.

I usually sign leaving cards with a squiggle upside-down on the back. Can't do that here, of course...

Don't tell me...

... Let me guess:

"take the touchstones of the Whedon world but frame them in 'a new story' that is very much of the moment"

means:

"Sparkly Vampires!!!"

@asdf

"Yes CERN invented the web but alas its obvious they never really moved past 1994 web site design wise. Says a lot about the quality of their web design team that they need an outside site to navigate their own site. Stupid scientists think they can do everything including coding and graphic design. I love how scientists learn a little bit of code and then go on to write the most unscalable horrid unmaintable bubble gum chickenwire app you would ever imagine and consider themselves a software expert. Hopefully they do their science at a much higher quality and actually get the darn thing to work this time."

Or, perhaps, those web pages are for their conveninece, not yours. Says a lot about scientists that they will go for functional rather than fluffy. Oh, and that's *their* requirements for "functional", not yours.

Shades of "All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku"...

The Japanese got there first - http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=25 - although the (not at all hentai) NK-1124 is probably not exactly what DARPA have in mind...

It's simpler than that...

The thief gets access to the house, and will see enough to determine if it is worth breaking in, and some idea of the vunerabilities of the building.

I think it used to be referred to as "casing the joint".

The solution is to make them hand over the delivery at the doorstep.

Not new at all...

They had those in a supermarket chain when I was working in the States (Atlanta, to be specific). This was about 10-15 years ago.

It wasn't much use then, either. As has been said, too many things to keep updated in the database...

@The Other Steve...

"...a story that reminds us that christians are just as stupid, venal and needlessly obsessed with trivial dogmatic minutiae as other cults.

Especially so close to christmas."

It 'aint the Christians that are getting venal; and needlessly obsessed around Christmas. Quite the opposite, in fact...

Surely this should be...

"Tovey's years of apid bee-watching"?