Local news captions

Local news captions

There are some brilliant things here. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-best-things-that-have-ever-happened-on-the-local-news
Nearly overloaded vehicles

Nearly overloaded vehicles

I also rather like these photos of magnificently just-not-overloaded vehicles. I must post some of our Vietnam and Cambodia equivalents. Chinese Drivers are the Master of Handling Ridiculously Overloaded Vehicles » M.I.C. Gadget.
Photogenic trash heaps

Photogenic trash heaps

I rather like these Chinese-landscape-style images. Photos of Trash Heaps Made to Look Like Chinese Landscape Paintings.
Panoramas of Mars and London

Panoramas of Mars and London

Fabulous panoramas to spend a few minutes exploring. Mars by Curiosity Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 177 in Out of this World Who knew our London house was so directly underneath Alexandra Palace (when viewed from the BT tower)? Click to...
Wan Chai waterfront police station

Wan Chai waterfront police station

It still gets me every time I see the scale of reclamation here. Picture is from 1932 when it opened. Thaks to Inside Wan Chai Police Station, Hong Kong | Hong Wrong Hong Kong Expat Blog for the photos.

[Solved] Multiple LFD failures on VPS

I was getting a strange set of LFD failures on my main server (most likely after some automatic system updates). The error was along the lines of  “Error processing command for line [iptables: Unknown error 4294967295], at line xxxx” It seems that there...

Sobering

Possibly the most emotional start to a holiday I’ve ever had. The largest Phnom Penh Killing Field followed by S-21 does not provide uplifting stories, rather a meditation on how fast humankind can degenerate and to how low a state. One in every five citizens...