Sugar Water

Those of you who know me well are well aware of how scatterbrained I can be. This morning I got up and realised I had no hair gel. The alternatives were thus: go to work with floppy hair (which, IMO, looks funny and really needs cutting to be done that way), use my only other gel, which is blue, looks like poster paint and is liable to turn you into a smurf[1], or find another solution. And find a solution I did. A solution of sugar and water as it turns out. Somebody suggested this to me ages ago (possibly Melody, I can't remember), and it seems to work ok. It's not as spiky as normal, but it's appropriately messy and seems to be held ok. Hurrah for simple, cheap alternatives! Really needs to come from a spray bottle though, rubbing the stuff on your hair leaves it too wet and it takes ages to dry, hence lack of spikiness.

[1] I bought this stuff on Saturday, for a laugh. I promptly dyed my hair blue, and a substantial portion of my head too. I thought it was probably a good idea to make the beard and sideburns an equally fetching shade, but apparently this is bad and wrong. I was made to wash it out of my beard, and the response to "what about the sideburns?" was "NO!", so I guess that's one hairstyling gaffe I won't be making again :)

Question for the masses

Ok, can anyone out there with wireless-foo tell me whether or not I need an access point to create an ad-hoc wireless connection between two machines? I don't think I do, I imagine it as being similar to a crossover ethernet cable, without the wires, but I want to be sure. I've bid on a Newton Emate 300, which will happily take a wavelan card and talk to stuff wirelessly, but I'm not so sure about the other end. I'm hoping it'll be a case of sticking in a pci card and configuring it, but I'm open to other suggestions/corrections.