Rainbow (by sarah)

Yesturday whilst we were coming in from the garden due to a light shower I saw a rainbow - shouted at Al to grab the camera quick and proceeded to run around the garden like a made thing giving my self and stitch and all sorts - here are the results.

Hydrogens new hobbi (by sarah)

Sorry I couldn't resist this I just had to take a photo!

Invader! (by alaric)

When I arrived back at home from dropping Jean and Sarah off in Cheltenham, I was greeted by Helium as I got out of the van. She was rubbing against my ankles and all the usual "Please let me in!" cat behaviour.

But as I approached our front door, I saw another cat run away and dart into the stable. It was the tabby and white one we sometimes see.

Intrigued, I went into the stable, with Helium still following me. All was quiet in there, but the other cat could be hiding anywhere amongst all the furniture, boxes, buckets and gardening tools, so I stood quiet and still for a few minutes. Helium sniffed at the floor a bit, but otherwise just kept rubbing against me, until we both heard a small noise from behind a pile of boxes; her head snapped round and her ears pricked up. She quietly advanced on the place, then she froze, and her back slowly rose into an arch. There was a few seconds of stalemate, then the cat bolted out of hiding. Helium leapt to attack and the other cat tried to jump over her so she only caught its legs, resulting in them both sprawling on the floor, but then the invader was up and away, leaping for the open window. Helium caught up and grabbed its hind legs as it scrabbled through the gap, clawing and biting, but then it squeezed through and was off, Helium in hot pursuit.

I caught up with her in the garden, standing in the middle of the lawn, head raised and ears pricked, scanning the bushes suspiciously, having successfully repelled the invader.

Fault tolerant Web hosting (by alaric)

As Sarah reminded me, I should blog my article:

Fault-tolerant Web hosting on a shoestring

24-core CPU (by alaric)

Hurrah:

SEAforthâ„¢-24A Embedded Array Processor

I'd been hoping something would come of this since I first came across the original design.

I still think much more RAM is needed, though. As it stands it'd be great for processing most kinds of streamed data, where you don't need to store much context, but for more general purpose applications, much more RAM is required, and with a high-bandwidth link to the processors that need it, too...