A new lunation near a Chinese New Year:

Beeston Blue Moon Beers

How auspicious is that?!

Is there still life in FLOSS after Cox? (The one down in Wales, not that one lost in the atoms and stars!) The Oric-1 turns 30 whilst a 2.5 ton Dekatron oldest working digital computer behemoth is resurrected. Swap punched paper tape to instead enjoy backwards cursive script to behold writing قلب “beautiful code” as an art-form. More old-school, there’s the ongoing The Art of Computer Programming as a fun comparison. Breaking out of reminiscing, Opportunity celebrates nine years on Mars and is still going! Meanwhile, similar batteries are keeping some new high-tech firmly grounded…

The unstoppable RasPi rampages onwards and lots more…

And according to the timewarped March Linux Format LXF168 (p14), we’ve Borg-ed the Hackspace! 😮

The snow is past, time for a few local beers, fun discussion, all on anything and everything, all at:

The Last Post!

I’ll be there from 8pm with beers and linux. Just look for the Linux mags and netbooks and whatever other Geekery or so.

See a few there 🙂

Cheers,
Martin

“Blue Moon” in this context is used to mean “a rare event”. Usage here is also a corruption on the description for when there is an extra full moon during a season, in that the beers meet-up fills in for when we have a fifth Wednesday in a calendar month 🙂