Rat's blog"The Street finds its own uses for things - uses the manufacturers never imagined." - William Gibson The Reverend Rat writes about London street life and tech - http://ReverendRat.comWilliam Gibson "Spook Country" signing and "Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes" poster- August 31, 2007 Hi to all of you, I was tipped off (thanks Mark) that William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer", "Count Zero", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "The Difference Engine" (with Bruce Stirling), "Virtual Light", "Idoru", "All Tomorrow's Parties", and "Pattern Recognition", was going to be signing copies of his latest book "Spook Country". A couple of years ago armed with my trusty security bit screwdriver I managed to obtain a London transport CCTV poster. It turns out that William Gibson had put on his.http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/rat/2007/08/william-gibson-spook-country.html Bimbo pictures- August 21, 2007 And finally for those of you that remember the blog a couple of years ago "Bimbo kiss and tell woman" here's the other photo ;-) It seems that the previous photo is one of my most often downloaded pictures. Thats it for now thanks for reading. Yours The Reverend Rat +:-)http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/rat/2007/08/bimbo-pictures.html Floods and FIRESTARTER!- August 21, 2007 We got a bit flooded in Hammersmith with all the rain, I am going to let the photos show the story. - note the car with the lights still on under water This is the headline in all the local Gazettes.newspapers: Ealing & Acton Gazette, Fulham Gazette, Greenford & Northolt Gazette, Southall Gazette, Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette. FIRESTARTER Arsonist's high street rampage. I was on my way to the Doctors when, I noticed that the door of Barclays Bank was cracked with smoke...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/rat/2007/08/floods-and-firestarter.html Hello again. Remote Fire Alarm switch, Recycling gone mad- August 21, 2007 Hello again. Smoke alarms ...most of you have come across the alarm that goes off at the slightest thing, ie you can't even boil a damned kettle with out it going off, just like the alarm I have....so... I made a Remote fire alarm switch. I pulled open the alarm and saw that the silence button was a blob of metal and a springy metal strip, the two touch and the alarm goes quiet for ten minutes, I turned over the circuit board and soldered a piece of bell wire to the two points and connected...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/rat/2007/08/hello-again-remote-fire-alarm-switc... |