Palfrey's life

I've just done something that I should either be cursed or commended for. Being stuck in an internet-less situation, as the router was being a PoS, I don't have admin rights (because I keep forgetting to ask), and as it wasn't responding to pings this probably wasn't going to be that helpful anyways. Power-cycling had been discarded as an option as it's locked in a housemate's room, but then I figured out a way around this: switch off anything that will object to being rudely switched off (i.e. my computer) and then switch the power off and on for the *entire* house. Kludgy, insane, yes. But I have my 'net connection back, so I don't really care.

Oh, and you would be seeing a 'friends default icon collage' thing below a cut here, but the server appears to be overloaded, and I really should be reading papers rather than writing my own version of it....

Having given up on waiting for the darn friendsCollage meme to work, I've written my own :-) Right now it's a python script that you need to run yourself, and it's only been tested on a Linux box, but it WFM. Scripts are on the linked page. Caveat hacker! Ho hum, back to actual work...
( Procrastination )
Edit: now has 'title' things on the images, and they're all links to the relevant journal.