Alternate Seat of TYR

If it looks right, it probably is right, as they say. So LockMart is looking into a seaplane design…but how did they come up with this?

Surely that’s too ugly to fly? (hat tip: Aviation Week.)

OK, so I’ve got a WinVista laptop - and it’s dire, at least the OS is. As well as lots of annoying crapware features well described here, it’s also got some really annoying bugs. For example, I quite regularly encounter an error condition in which the WLAN client goes out of kilter, failing to complete [...]

I recently read about a Zimbabwean refugee who was sent a letter by the Home Office, which stated that his presence in the UK was “not essential for him to enjoy family ties with his new partner and her family”. The letter went on to demand that he leave “without delay” and that this might [...]

Guess what? This study isn’t in today’s Independent.

It’s been bloody difficult to see anything of this year’s championship play-offs; apparently there’s some sort of rugby union event going on. But I did manage to see Hull and Wigan last night. Which posed a problem - which of them do I hate more?
I still get abusive comments on this post from time to [...]

Strange signs and wonders are visible in the sky. Catalans Dragons beat Wigan. And Felix Salmon becomes an autogestionniste, in the auto industry to boot.
Now the VEBA, according to the WSJ, is a union-run trust – which means that the UAW now controls more than enough money to buy GM.
Of course, the VEBA is [...]

I have no idea why “libertarians” would support this idea at all; especially not Jim Henley, who ought to know better. Briefly, “Direct Instruction” suggests that teachers should be given prepared scripts to use in class and instructed to follow them exactly, with classes streamed by ability and repeating courses until passed.
First of all, [...]

So, I wonder if there’s anything stupid going on at Richard “Who are you going to believe - me, or the fact the Israeli Air Force *apologised* for the strike-in-error?” North’s place….and guess what? There is!
As CabaPhil (good to have him back in the ’sphere) points out, Dick North is deeply conflicted here - for [...]

So what are the lessons of the Liberal conference?
First up, get a bloody autocue already. We could have a blogger whipround. Out of all the speakers I saw on TV, excepting Ming’s big finish, all of them were very obviously reading off a bit of paper. Danny Alexander’s entire TV appearance consisted of him staring [...]

Dear Lazyweb - can anyone work out why I can’t get useful data out of this page with BeautifulSoup and Python 2.5?
The information is in an HTML table, enclosed by td tags nested in tr tags, and governed by three CSS classes, “flight-data”, “data-head” and “data-row2″. The latter pair are used only within the first. [...]