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	Tue, 9 Jun 2009 Awww, poor little Fuhrer Awww, poor little Fuhrer, did the bad man throw an egg at you? There there, stop crying, run to mummy and she'll kiss it better. Posted at 18:49:11 by David Cantrell keywords: politics Permalink \| 5 Comments

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2009

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Nov

Bluetooth headphone suggestions wanted

October 2009 in books

Oct

Rum and chocolate tasting notes

September 2009 in books

Sep

Optimising n! - revisited again

Combining functions

Review: Civilisation, by Kenneth Clark

Darroze Armagnac tasting notes

August 2009 in books

iPhone review part 4: Apps and the App Store

iPhone review part 3: User Interface

Film review: Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

Aug

Amrut tasting notes

cgit syntax highlighting

July 2009 in books

Devel::CheckLib can now check libraries' contents

Letter from a Lunatic

Jul

Cybernetic Enhancement

iPhone review part 2: PIM

Journal now with another 30% more shiny!

iPhone review part 1: iPod

Religion makes you stupid (again)

Good readers, please carry on

Jun

June 2009 in books

Please don't do anything

Pub review: The Woolpack Inn, Eskdale

Awww, poor little Fuhrer

May 2009 in books

May

Returning to Auntie Beeb

Bryar security hole

Wolfram Alpha: what a load of rubbish

Why Mr. Speaker should go

I like to taste your Nikkas

Presented without comment

MPs' expenses: a solution

April 2009 in books

Apr

Factoring Factorials

Anglican hypocrisy

Remixing Insanity

Gratuitous LOLcreature

March 2009 in books

Mar

Catholic lies and hypocrisy

Freedom is in peril

Sony MicroVault Tiny

Western Digital Mybook Studio II

Religion Makes You Stupid, part 2064762 in our series

Migrating to Git

February 2009 in books

Feb

Whisky vs Whiskey: a style guide:

The Genius of Charles Darwin

The Root of All Evil?

Ted Haggard's Mouth

On Snow Ploughs

Jan

January 2009 in books

A Treat for the Lawyers

Linuxbierwanderung 2010 proposal

Pickled Onion Monster Munch

Saving throw against salesmen: success!

Bye-bye AOL Hometown

Happy Leap Second!

2008

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

2008 in books, part the fourth

If you love your child shoot it in the head

Which bit of "zero tolerance" don't you understand?

Ultimate Christmas Cheese

NHS rip-off phone numbers

Hello Libdemblogs!

Work for benefits

Karl Jenkins' Stabat Mater

Amazon efficiency

Perl isn't dieing

Nov

Using up odds and ends

Kayakers and Killjoys

Christmas Watch 2008

Language-targetted spam?

Oct

I am out of the office, please try later

Burial At Thebes

Ocado delivers ... The Times?

Protect the Humanzee!

Cake is a Made-up Drug

2008 in books, part the third

Never talk to the police

Sep

Best Thing Ever

I survived Mass

John Lewis: spammers

Aug

Optimising n! - revisited

New Cocktail: the Caipiranha

Olympic costs: the excuses

War On Terror board game

Zeppelins over London

Ha ha - maybe god hates you

Ha ha - and more seriously ...

Jul

Lip-reading lessons

Radovan Karadzic's beard

Wikipedia: WRONG AGAIN

On Poverty: an rant

Jun

2008 in books, part the second

How to Save The Planet, in one easy step

Why you should release your company's code

The Science of Insurance

Per-user resolv.conf files

May

Compact tag clouds

Ask Lisa: part the second

The Olympics: now available in Welsh!

Apr

Lib Dem Self-delusion

"Free Tibet" flags: made in China!

Vote for Rabid Gravy

2008 in books, part the first

Mar

The value of backups, part 2

Olympic security costs

Paranoia Squared

Feb

More evidence that religion makes you stupid

Jan

Moby Dick, or, The Tediousness

Descent into Chavdom?

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust

Satnav choosing inappropriate routes

2007

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

Queen's Christmas Speech Drinking Game

To my anonymous benefactor ...

Public Service Announcement no. 1

Gratuitous insults

Nov

Liquidised Baby Pandas

Christmas decorations

Phone number formatting

Oct

Leopard? Not yet, thanks.

Rugby World Cup roundup

Radiohead "In Rainbows"

Rugby World Cup Final: prediction

Advice to Christians, part 4

Gig - who wants to come with me?

Sep

Foreign prostitutes: the facts

Talk Like A Pirate Day

A Windows Programmer Writes ...

More police stupidity

Aug

YAPC::Europe 2007 report: day 3

YAPC::Europe 2007 report: day 2

YAPC::Europe 2007 report: day 1

I, pornographer (again)

Microsoft Genuine Disadvantage

Foreign criminals

Module pre-requisites analyser

Jul

Palm Treo call db module

So Transparent ...

Whisky icecream

A theological question

Whining northerners

Wikipedia handheld proxy

Cider duty exemption

Ooo-arrrr ul Akbarrrrr

Advice to conservatives

More BBC bitterness

Advice to Christians, part 3

Jun

YAPC::Europe 2007 travel plans

Moslem martial artists

Won't you think of the children?

Drink-drive limit being reduced?

How banks make their money

Taking Liberties

The day star - it burns!

Book review: Backup and Recovery

Crappy olympic logo

New Bryar feature

Palm GPS help wanted

Bliar's Foreign Policy

Number::Phone release

May

Cricket, Rain and Old English

New Bryar feature

Whisky blending

Things Not Sent

Olympic bribery

Apr

Champagne WHAT!?!?!

Web 2.0^2.0 fallout

Phone advice wanted

A brilliant idea

Hooray for Jesus!

What makes a good film

Logos' hidden meanings

Mar

Dear Applescript

Vampire Electronics

Ministry of Truth

Googling for your self considered harmful

One billion a day

Feb

The value of backups

Number portability

Exciting new business

Jan

XML::Tiny released

New Bryar release

Racism on the telly

Measuring speed in the digital age

2006

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

Customer Service, BA-style

Amazon recommendations

This week in Whisky news

Bastard Fairies

Baby's First Biker Jacket

Christmas music

Interwebnets roundup

Nov

Supernormal cultural happenings

My Brane, it is Broken

Air guitar T-shirt

Photos RSS feed

National tragedy

Support Iceland's Whalers

Best. Restaurant review. EVAH.

Oct

Debian is being stupid

Holiday in Greenland?

Sep

mod_bandwidth for teh win!!!!

Paypal's anti-phishing advice

Advice to everyone ...

An idiot charity

More weird dreams

An etiquette question

Journal now with 30% more shiny!

A big "well done" to news organisations

YAPC::Europe 2006 report: day 3

YAPC::Europe 2006 report: day 2

Aug

YAPC::Europe 2006 report: day 1

YAPC::Europe 2006 report: day 0

Current beard terror level

Advice to Buddhists

Police/Terrrrrrst match goes into extra time

Explosive liquids and what to do with them

An Inconsistency

Hooray for Bob!

Israel, the criminal state

Congestion vs environment

Even more new photos!

Jul

More new photos!

Advice to Cyclists

Advice to Christians, part 2

Sartorial Agony

If I were a terrrrrrrst ...

Photographs at the Tate gallery

New Superheroes

Jun

The world has gone mad

With apologies to Flanders and Swann ...

Harry Harris is insane

Did you know that ...

Stupid spammers

May

When ads go wrong

Damnit the sun is rising

Schneier on privacy; Wilson on sexual (in)security

Best. Plant. Ever.

The Half-life of Hats

On teaching "Britishness"

Israel definitely not even a little bit racist

Ken's promise to increase the congestion charge

Olympic Job Losses

To all my readers who use a sane calendar ...

Apr

Ha ha, God hates you

All coppers are bastards

I, pornographer

An Easter Thought

Our police state doesn't like The Clash

Police-speak migrates

To all my American readers ...

Breaking things

Some implementation notes ...

Welcome to the new Bryar thing

Mar

Advice to environmentalists

Advice to christians

Horror films are all true!

Currency survey

If I were a suicide bomber ...

Mmmm, tasty baby-meat

Cooking à la Jazz

The bad-tempered clavier

Feb

Stilton and kipper soup

What were they thinking?

And lo, stupidity did begat stupidity in the land of Artaxerxes

Dear spammers ...

Arabic translation needed ...

More Olympic cost over-runs

More on moron anti-free-speech demonstrators

I hate burglar alarms

Anonymity using Tor

Tolerance and reason

Jan

You know you're drunk when ...

Philosophers. Grrr.

New Labour fuckwittery

Why using Microsoft software is a bad idea

New Year resolutions

2005

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

Yay Looneylabs!

London at night

On the location of cities

Nov

TERRRRRRSTS ARE CONTROLLED BY ALIENS

World's Worst Adverts

Interesting conversations

Oct

You can't trust a photograph

Winter has arrived ...

Stupid Liverpudlians and the lovely Boris

pretty pictures

Brazilians say "we want our guns"

Cyclists who suck - no. 1 in a series

Writing letters

An Open Letter To Yankee Spammer Scum

Well fuck you then

Vodafone goodness, Vodafone badness

Monkeying around

Wah! A bigger boy made me do it!

Religion: a new approach

Drug research and smackhead tramps

Pave the earth!

Sep

Aug

Canadian sabre-rattling

Back from Scotland

Jul

OS X RAID is beginning to PISS ME OFF

I love Postgres, me

Silliest music EVAH

Someone set up us the bomb

Jun

Why I am not a christian

Bank of England Museum

Another appointment to my New World Order

On Overlordship

Advertising Standards Authority - bunch of retards

May

More on my forthcoming World Government

Sexual habits of the extreme right?

Maybe euthanising the retarded wasn't such a bad idea

Topology for the sunset of empire

Apr

Freedom of Information

Pounds and ounces

Mar

More gross stupidity

St. Patrick's Day

Some people should be certified

Feb

Weirdest thing ever

Thomas Lipscomb, all mouth, no trousers

Jan

Taking over the world, one small step at a time

Ickle tiny cars

Some bipedal primates are only alive because it is illegal to kill them

This just in: murder not a serious crime

Inappropriate spam

2004

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

Happy Christmas!

Going to the dogs

Nov

A very filmy weekend

Sad Apple Fan Boy

Oct

This is a Christmas-free journal

Sep

Scum! on my bus!

Aug

Holiday photographs

Holidays and photography

Jul

Seen on the Bittorrent channel ...

Jun

New job! New toys!

Unemployment and wine

Portuguese TV is a communist plot!

Transit of Venus

I've lost my job

May

Australian biology is weird

Black helicopters

Apr

Patents, enemy of innovation

Inflected languages

A spammy update

Doing the impossible

Beef-flavoured Nutri-hats

Mar

The Cthulhu-lemon

Worst. Website. Ever.

Feb

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

French TV is a communist plot! Kill them all!

PCs do suck, honest. No really. Please, help me keep my faith.

Arcade games rule

BT in getting-something-right shocker

Jan

Losing one's servants

More adventures with a little laptop

Adventures with a little laptop

Amazon thinks I like some really odd things

2003

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Dec

Post-christmas re-appearance

Homicidal nurses share common traits

Nov

Birthday! and Brane Surgery!

The Frozen North

The AWESOME POWER of barcodes and MAC OS X

Libraries, and the ordering thereof

Ten Ton Monster

Cars cars cars they all blend into one cars cars cars cars

Oct

Birds. They're great

The Problem Of The Bored Security Guard

Sep

I hate spammers

Incompetence and idiocy

Aug

Hooray for the Magnificent Seven

The woes of NASA

Back from the LBW

Hello from sunny Slovakia

Jul

IIIIiiiiiiiiit's PATCH TIME

Word Of The Day

Today is a GOOD DAY ...

A political message

Jun

More weird dreams

Fictional characters who never existed but should have

Kitchen Astrophysics

That travelling interview thing

Creeping conservatism and hypocrisy

May

The Matrix, dissected

London Review of Books

An update on the Drop Drawers thang

More trouble at the BBC

People. They suck. Kill them all

Apr

L'Ancien Regime

So I've got this journal thing ...