Technical update
A while back I talked about having difficulties with getting the
source of a web-page using the lynx web browser. It
seems that I should have just used
lynx -source <URL>
to get the source of the given page sent to standard out.
The move progresses
The lab’s move to its new building is well under-way. My stuff is going on Tuesday, but today I’m going to start putting it all in boxes. The various buildings of the old lab are gradually emptying, of both people and equipment. It’s the disappearance of the superficial trappings that you really notice though. For example, one of the office doors I regularly pass was bedecked with cartoons (Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes etc). Then, last week the cartoons disappeared, replaced by a single strip of paper with the words “This space intentionally left blank” typed upon it. Nearby, the photo board of staff and students has now been dramatically picked clean of all those who are making the shift. The Computing Service, hitherto considered part of the lab, are staying put, so there are still some photos on the board, just many fewer of them.
There are brightly coloured plastic crates piled up in the tea-room. In the space that remains to us there, a small group of still resident staff congregates at the given times. I can’t help but feel as if we are all alone in a great empty expanse, like Arctic explorers around a camp-fire. (The over-enthusiastic air-conditioning in the tea-room probably helps with that particular mental image!)
Postscript
Finally, proof that governments can occasionally see what the Internet might be good for.
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