Month: October 2005
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Gents Toilets Mystery
The gents toilets on the first floor of the building where I work is a complete mystery to me.
That's not strictly true. I know where the stalls and the urinals are. I know how to make the taps - little push-button ones - work. I know that the hand dryer to the right typically warms … -
All Ready For NaNoWriMo
Well, here goes nothing.
Words written: 0 / target: 50000
As many of you already know, I'm participating this November in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month contest. The aim is to write, from a standing start, 50,000 words in 30 days. So... about 1,700 words a day. There were days that my dissertation got … -
Soup On Your Head
There are some very strange tags on Flickr, the photo sharing service, such as this one which was revealed to me today: Soup On Your Head. It's pictures of people... with soup on their heads. And that's it. Damn weird.
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Baba Yetu
Go on, JTA, tease yourself a little longer with a copy of the menu theme from Civilization IV.
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Paul's 100th Duty
AltPaul and friends with cake in the lodge.
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Another Stunning Error Message
This time from Corel:
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Dan and Alex
Dan and Alex now has it's own subdomain, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to. Yeah, right. There's a new episode up, and you can even subscribe to the new RSS feed (or just pick it up on Abnib).
Expect to see more of Dan and Alex in the near future.
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Genius Filmmaking
This is just a piece of genius filmmaking. 5 friends in Machynlleth made huge chipboard letters akin to the ones famously on the hills above Hollywood did so secretly, deploying the letters the night before Mach's weekend-long film festival started.
But better than that, they filmed themselves doing it and entered their short movie into the … -
Who’s My Daddy?
I've seen some pretty stupid test memes. So I've made one of my own:
Who's My Daddy?
Peter Huntley is my daddy.
Generated by the "Who's Your Daddy?" Test Meme
In other news, "Hook" by Blues Traveler (lyrics) is a spectacular song.
I have an unbelievable amount of work to … -
eBay Context Advertising
You've probably seen eBay's context-sensitive advertising on Google: you search for, say, "children's toys", and one of the Google ads on the right-hand side of the page tells you how you can buy and sell children's toys on eBay. I've always thought that this system was probably just waiting to be abused, so I had …
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Balloon Fetish Porn
Perhaps the strangest site I've seen all day: Loonerz.com.
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E-Mail Server Configuration For Dummies
Well; I feel like a wally.
SmartData's taking on a new client for a content-managed web site, web and e-mail hosting. In anticipation of the domain transfer going through without a hitch, I reconfigured our web and e-mail servers to already be ready to accept connections to their "new" web site and for e-mails to come … -
This Weekend’s Events
Just so those of you in Aber know, here's some of this weekend's highlights:
Geek Night tonight is cancelled, as JTA and I are building his new PC (possibly with the help of Paul and certainly while being hand-fed peeled grapes by Ruth). A number of us are discussing seeing the 2:30pm matinee showing of … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge III - Results
Thanks to everybody who played Dan's Dingbats Challenge III; it was great to see some of your answers. Almost everybody did really well on points this time around, but many were let down by their times.
Here's the final scoreboard and answers:
Position Player Time Taken Right Answers Total Time 1 Faye (Aber)Very quick; every one … -
Dan And Alex