Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
While on my many StumbleUpon stumbles, I came across a number of similar pages on “things to ponder”. These were pretty much a number of one-liners based on puns and technicalities. You know the kind of stuff, “What is the speed of dark” and the like. I think the people that thought these up believed themselves to be Steven Wright. Read More »Something That Irritated Me
I am officially the best procrastinator in the world. I’ve managed to ignore not one, but several of my blogs. I would write the exact… Read More »I Should Be Done For Neglect
Just a quick post pointing out an interesting bit of optical chicanery. Blogger Whale has an image that changes depending on how close you are. Read More »Don’t believe your eyes!
TorrentFreak are running a story about the means and methods used to track filesharers on P2P networks. The firm responsible for finding those sharing copyrighted works, Logistep AG, are using a piece of software called File Sharing Monitor. Read More »This is How We Catch You Downloading
If you are reading this post it means three things: 1. The post-by-email settings on the blog are correct. 2. The cron job I set… Read More »Mailed Postings
I’ve created another blog dedicated to recipes and all things cooking. You can find it at the imaginative URL http://cuisine.roberthallm.org. Read More »Faire la cuisine
So, having recently moved, I thought I’d share with you a phenomenon that I’ve come to live with: living beside a train line. Now, you may be thinking “aha, Robert, you poor fool! Living beside a train line must be hell!”. Well, short answer: it isn’t. Read More »Trains (and Pâté)
Readers may get a certain sense of déja-vu while reading this entry. That is exactly the feeling I got when reading page 4 of the instruction manual for my new monitors. It reads as follows:Read More »More Cheap Hardware
This post should not be confused with a similarly-named post I made earlier wherein I detailed putting this blog on the dedicated server I have. This time, it is in fact my corpus that has moved to a new locus. That is to say I’ve gotten a new flat. Read More »I’ve Moved
Three months ago I installed Spam Karma 2 from dr Dave to deal with all the spam comments I was getting. As I commented then,… Read More »Spam Begone Update