Month: February 2004
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The Internet Is A World Of Ends
Got a spare quarter hour? I think you should go and read WorldOfEnds.com. It's a fascinating and concise analysis of what is the nature of internet, and why why should stop making mistakes with it.
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Like A Sheep; Following My Friends
My friend Jen has done one of those god-awful survey thingies where you supposedly reveal yourself better to your friends, on her blog. Not one to miss out, I'm going to do it, too... I'll be skipping a few of the more boring questions and adding a couple more...
1. BASICS:
FULL NAME: Daniel Huntley
SEX: Male
BIRTHDAY: 8th … -
Safer Internet Day
Today is European Safer Internet Day.
Does that mean that all those idiots who fell for the MyDoom virus (which, of course, required you to open a ZIP file inside the infected e-mail, the run the program inside it - yet still became the fastest-spreading e-mail virus to date) are going to actually plug their brains … -
Answer These With Song Titles…
Alec has a thing going on his blog where he's challenging people to answer questions about themselves in terms of song titles. Go have a look, see my response, and have a go yourself, here.
Went to Booker Cash & Carry this afternoon, and bought just over 3kg of Sherbert Lemons and a little less of … -
Amusing Line From The Python Manual
Attempts to pickle unpicklable objects will raise the PicklingError exception.
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Burger King Love Us
A new-looking manager (young, with a shiny badge) is making Changes at the Burger King around the corner from us. From Monday, the entire restaurant will become No Smoking (yay!), and the old upstairs toilets - once closed owing to vandalism - have been re-opened. Claire and I were in there this evening, discussing our …
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Space Mutiny!
[this post was lost during a server failure on 11 July 2004; it was partially recovered on 13 October 2018]
Not the worst film I've ever seen (fourth worst film in the world, according to the IMDB), and seeing it as the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version only made it funnier in it's stupidity!
Here's a brief … -
Handles; Life; And Grabbing The Latter By The Former
[this post was damaged during a server failure on 11 July 2004; it was partially-recovered on 13 October 2018]
Oh yeh - we went to Brum on Saturday, but Bryn tells that story far better than I did, with all of it's visiting Scottish girlfriends, fallen trees (and phone lines), visits to Newtown McDonalds, and enormous … -
Dodge!
Go play this little DHTML game. Can you beat my 'survival time' of 24.593 seconds?
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How To Make Piracy Legal; Nobody Loses; Everybody Gains
The Register brings a report about Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher's plan to make piracy pay for itself. Not by making it yet more illegal, but by stopping it from being immoral. Go read the article. It's great.