Sorry about the down time yesterday, I was in the middle of moving servers. So far I've noticed that my comment spam block broke. But let me know if you notice anything else.

-Francis

(Bulletproof Cupid by Placebo is quite a nice instrumental song. Makes a nice opening track to their album Sleeping With Ghosts. Which has a really. striking album cover.)

Bulletproof Networks.
I've been reading up on vpns. Secure networks over insecure networks. Instead of paying lots of money for a secure line to your office you can use a cheep internet connection that is hardly secure. But over this insecure connection you can start another co…

Let me get this out of the way. The Third Globe

Forgive my snippy captions, My heart just isn't in it today. Also if you look at the England gallery you might notice this comes before Westminster and Trafalgar Square, I missed this one, and the next one too. I'm trying to keep some semblance of chronological order.

So I found this site called digg. It's neat, the community submits links and rates them, not a bunch of editors. So the crap you find…

So this guy creates a hack that dumps the firmware on the new ipod's through it's little pizzo speaker. (The one that makes the chirps and beeps, not the head phones) He wrote a computer program to listen and turn it back into binary. He didn't know enough to get the firewire/usb port to work, but this served his purpose.

So some guy responds with, "Could you please stop being silly and instead try and do something worth while. We're still lookin…

Jason reorganized my sidebar for a prototype of a redesign he was working on (one you might see sometime soon) and I liked it so much I decided to just use it now and not wait until we work out the next version. It really is organized much better then it used to be.

Also, I forgot to include another England Trip album on my last post so you get two this time.

House on Harrow on the Hill and St. Paul's Cathedral.

Oh man I loved that Cathedral. The…

So I was having a chat with someone and they asked if I had a wishlist.

Francis's Wishlist

That's it. But I'm also not above gadgets, toys (I love nerf guns), and land.

Thank you someone for giving me an excuse to flaunt my upcoming 21st birthday and my wishlist. I'd hate to do this unprevoked. =D

Well I finally anotated Avebury. I'm sure taking my sweet old time with these photos aren't I?

Enjoy. (Click the Avebury link above.)

-Francis

(That's what I get for not spell idiot checking my text. Fixed now.)

I can't be bothered with this shaving shit anymore.

If you happen to live in russia then its perfectly legal for you to download music by the megabyte from All OF MP3. And now they finally take paypal again.

-Francis

PS And because I think if I don't do this now I never will. Here's my next England Gallery, my day at Stonehenge.

I'm never driving again. The two hour drive from Glassboro to Brooklyn took me 4 and a half hours today. I also leaned that living on a hill is never as good as they tell you it is, my car taught me this. I got stuck twice and had to dig my self out. The first time I got stuck I was by a pet food store so I put on my blinkers and walked down. I explained to the guy what was going on and asked him to point me in the direction of the kitty litter. …

Finally finally home.

1pm to 4:15 pm (GMT and EST respectivly)
London to Toronto

Became 1pm-5:45

and

6:15 PM to 8:00 pm (EST)
Toronto to NYC

became 6:15-10pm (EST)

Ice storms in canada, fog everywhere (looks really cool from the air)

More later, sleep now.

-Francis

Today
2pm to 7pm (GMT - with then an hour on the tube and the bus)
Edinburgh to London

Tomorow
1pm to 4:15 pm (GMT and EST respectivly)
London to Toronto

6:15 PM to 8:00 pm (EST)
Toronto to NYC

It's a lot of traveling but I'm going home!

PS. My first reaction to the Mac Mini was "It's a deck!". It's about the size of a mousepad, 2 inches high. I'm in the middle of reading "Count Zero" by William Gibson. In most of his books computers are just "de…

So I'm about to go to Edinburgh (I hope I got that one right) and I decide to check in with the information booth first.

I show the lady my ticket.
"Can I take the one o'clock?"
"You can but it won't get you to Edinburgh."
"What should I take then?"
"Nothing, You can't go there, not today."

Bad weather, train power lines are down and such. So I leave bright and early tomorow.

Babel-17 was amazing. I feel bad for bad mouthing Sam (I forget his ful…

(I don't have my usual spelling and gammer tools on hand so what your getting is %100 pure francis style engish. I'm not even trying hard. I'll fix it up later.)

So I've been wandering around London lately. It's nice. Old. I mean there's history eveywhere. You can't go to the corner store with out some deep history around it. (in the heart of london anyway, I'm staying out in Harrow, on the hill. Everything is old, around 200 years or so but not …

My friends are so nuts. I love them all.