In my wanderings around the net, I found Spank The Monkey again:
I managed to pull my self 🙂 away after a while, but was reminded of this:
Poke The Penguin, funny, but not as addictive as Spank The Monkey! Play the game buy the T-shirt honest!
Update: Link fixed!
My friend SteveP just sent me this:
Was fortunate to pick up a new magazine that someone had left on the train the other day.
Great new Jack magazine, the cover reads “Voted Best New Magazine” by mag design awards 2002. I read it from cover to cover, and wanted to share this article with you. It’s about the National Geographic‘s expedition to conquer Shipton’s Arch. Truly breathtaking.
Do you remember that cool firewire hub Hubzilla? Well, it looks like Toho have been up to their tricks again!
It seems that Charismac Engineering has changed the name of the product to Firewire Dino….
Story from Davezilla.
Ah there is a hope that Microsoft Internet explorer may save the day! I’ve been told that If you type something that looks like a hostname name, e.g. www.classic_detail.co.uk, into the IE address bar which subsequently doesn’t resolve to a valid host, it will automatically feed the address into the MSN search engine and hopefully should come up with the valid URL classic_detail.co.uk in the results.
Now the only thing is to get the valid domain name into the search engine in the first place.
Hmmm, how to do that? 🙂
I’ve just had a phone call from one of the clients about a problem they’ve got! They’ve just launched a new website, classic detail, to go with a new catalogue, but unfortunately, the printers have printed the wrong url in the catalogue! They’ve printed the url as www.classic_detail.co.uk!
OK, says they, we’ll quickly go an buy the wrong domain and point it at the correct one. Unfortunately classic_detail.co.uk is an illegal domain name. It’s the underscore you see. Not valid. (I only remembered this recently when a similar incident happened).
What to do? Well I’m not to sure what they can do about it other than print and send out correction leaflets the next time they do a mail out. Hopefully not too much damage will have been done!
Closer proofreading required next time methinks!
There’s a head-to-head RC Micro car showdown over at Extremetech. I’ve not read all of the 10 page article yet, it’s currently being slashdotted, so it’s real slow.
But how good are these cars, really? Just a passing fad, or real fun? And which offers better performance – the MicroSizer or the ZipZap.
Here at ExtremeTech we take our technology, and our fun, very seriously. So we set out to apply the same rigorous approach we use for testing motherboards and CPUs, and apply them to these pocket rockets.
These are not the same ones as the cheap knockoffs Steve and I got ourselves the other week. These are MicroSizers and ZipZaps.
Although when we went back for two more (for our daughters) Steve did manage to get himself a legitimate Bit Char-G (the MicroSizers in the article are the US-friendly version of the Tomy Bit Char-G) for the same price!
I’m still working through the problems with this merged code I’ve been sweating over for the last two weeks!
I’m getting punch drunk now; every time I fix one problem, I move on a step only to find another.
It seems to have been going on for ever. Some days I don’t get to leave the house. *sob*
We had a power cut in Bredbury, Stockport, tonight at around 7:30. I was just putting Jamie to bed when everything went dark! I had to run around finding torches and candles, none of which were in the expected places 🙂
It must have been a big outage; I couldn’t see a lighted street lamp in any direction! Paula came round after she had finished work whilst we were in blackness and said that it reached as far as Woodley, which is about a mile or so up the road. She also mentioned that there was one house down the road from us which still had lights on. I guess they must have emergency generators. I can just picture the smug grin on someone’s face as their purchase was finally justified 😉
It lasted between 75 and 90 minutes. Funnily enough, or not, the only inconvenience was that I had been planning to do some work on the computer. But there was no TV on, no radio; Jan carried on reading under candle light, Jamie read in bed with the aid of a lamp, and I picked up my book and read under candle light. I even pulled out the old style kettle we use for camping and made a coffee!
Anyway it’s back on now. I had to go round setting all the electric clocks: microwave, radio alarm, video. Luckily none of the computers seemed to have suffered. I lost some edits to a file, and that was it.
