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What does this button do?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“The only ‘intuitive’ interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” Well, restring my guitar, this is interesting in a “come back and haunt you” sort of way. The gist of the article is a bloke from Samsung saying … Continue reading →

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The youth of today

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Iremember when I was a youth of today. Then, today becomes yesterday, then yesterday becomes the 80s and the 90s and with a radio retune to BBC Radio 4, I find that the only rocking drugs I am doing are … Continue reading →

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Big beer, little beer, glass of wine

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chief Cobra

So Mrs Cobras and I were at a hotel in Montpellier recently sitting at the bar (go on, act surprised, if you can) trying, unsuccessfully, to get Baby Cobra to sleep whilst waiting for the restaurant to open. This bloke … Continue reading →

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Tuesdicoccus Daylori

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Germs, germs, germs. The Cobra family have had so many of them this year that we were beginning to think that we had value to medical research. Of course, we blame Baby Cobra: she is a germ magnet. A cute … Continue reading →

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From little acorns

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Juuso, one of the chaps whose blog I really enjoy reading, says that he likes to describe emergent behaviour as “1 + 1 = 3”. I would describe that as a syntax error. Emergent behaviour isn’t about taking an obviously … Continue reading →

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Fire sale: everything must go!

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Chief Cobra

“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”— Robert G. Ingersoll Politics is a very difficult subject to have an opinion on: if we all agreed, we would all live in peace and harmony. Regrettably, it has been … Continue reading →

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Why stop at the pub? Let’s eat on the MOON!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Good food is not measured by quantity. Having a stack of beans, coleslaw and “meat” left over at the end of a meal does not mean that it was a good one. At the other end of the spectrum some … Continue reading →

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I’ll moon you if you’re not careful

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Chief Cobra

To be honest, I probably won’t, unless it is by accident: I appear to have lost a small amount of weight recently and my trousers keep falling down. Between that and a belt that is held on by one wafer … Continue reading →

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I am going to go to space

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Chief Cobra

But probably not in person, if I am perfectly honest. However, starting my own space program and launching the odd satellite or two, well, that is a different matter. A while back, I learnt about the N-Prize. This is a … Continue reading →

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Bad news trading

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Chief Cobra

For nearly a decade I owned owned some Premium Bonds. They’re a savings type thing but instead of receiving interest, you get a chance to win a large, juicy chunk of tax free money every month. In theory, when times … Continue reading →

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