Heard on Shanghai TV News at Ten. “Qualifying toilets will be downsized.” In a story about saving water.

The trials of washing machine repair.

This maybe specific to Gentoo. Anyhoo, to get mount_nfs to work on a Mac when mounting Linux NFS server exports we have to use the -P option.

In which we learn the joys of easy admin that is the Mac. Not.

In which we discover the delights of # placement.

We’re lucky in this issue to have captured rare footage of the soontobesushi. 

Happy New Year. This is the first post to the simonb.com weblog. Relax it gets better. It is raining in Shanghai.