Just cleared out a case of trackback spam in some of the older posts. What kind of low-grade wassock do you have to be to end up doing that sort of thing? “What do I do? I find communication systems on the Internets and piss on them by advertising cheap rip off poker sites. On my weekends I break into people's houses and rewire their phones to dial sex lines.”

Y'know - when I want an online avatar thank makes me appear vacant I now know where to go:



And from the same people, a variation on the buggery smiley?

I've done a bit of programming and I think it can be safely said that humanity would not be released today, even under the most lax of QA departments. In no particular order then, five bugs or odd features that spring to mind:

• Diabetes. This one's fun; the human buffer overflow hack. There are two major forms of Diabetes known, obscurely, as type one and type two. Type one is characterised by the failure of the body to produce enough insulin, which is required to transport sugar into the cells from the bloodstream. Type two is characterised by a reduced efficiency of the system which transports the sugar from the blood. Both types result in an increased blood-sugar level which overworks the kidneys. Since the job of the kidneys is to clean the blood, their inefficiency at this can cause damage to other parts of the body. One of the most susceptable organs to poorly cleaned blood is the pancreas - which, coincidently, is responsible for insulin production. If not spotted, this can turn type two into type one. Obviously this wasn't tested.
• The Appendix. Location: the end of the cecum. Size: 2 to 20 cm. Use: er... can we get back to you on that? One sec... got it here... “its purpose is to do nothing and then, randomly, go bad and explode causing, if possible, peritonitus and shock.” How'd that one get on the spec sheet?
• The Urethra. No... really, who thought it was a good idea to use the same tunnel for liquid waste and reproduction. I've heard of code re-use... but sheesh.
• The Testicles. On the subject of reproduction, couldn't they find a better way of cooling them than hanging them outside? That's not going to win any design awards.
• Death. “I'm not seeing the selling point here, you say that barring accidents, the human body will last, at most, 120 years and into the 80s on average. And for the last few it's probably not going to be working all that well... you're hoping people will want another one after that kind of service or something?”

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When you're sending out your scam emails, it pays to avoid weird requests being appended to the bottom of the fake...

Here's an old pic I found whilst trying to work out which extension was crashing Firefox when uploading files. Ironically, it was “Crash Recovery”. Didn't happen when installed on a fresh profile though, so maybe it's corruption or a conflict with one of my other 37 extensions...

I find this curiously amusing...



(available from Party Monkey)

...have they considered holding “Pope Idol” to pick the next one?

(If he isn't already dead and they've stuffed him so they don't have to pick a new one)

[Isn't about they re-considered the whole must-die-in-office thing? It seems such an undignified way to do things]

According to the “Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines FAQ”, Ask Jeeves is going to be rilly rilly big one day

“Ask.com was the 7th most visited site in December, 2005”

Bloglines | Ask Jeeves / Bloglines FAQ

Update: February 10, 2005. Now fixed

It's become common these days to find “long” articles on some sites split into two or more pages. Usually, there's some spurious rational about people not wanting to scroll down (though they presumably love clicking through to a new page) or wanting to keep the traditional, easy-to-read column layout found in most newspapers (yet the International Herald Tribune seems to have managed to do this without resorting to reloading the ads loading a new page). But some have gone even further...

Following a link on Mozillazine takes you to a 16 paragraph article from PC Mage with each paragraph on it's own page and each page taking up three or so screens with the ads surrounding the pitiful scrap of text. To read the entire piece, I'm guessing you're expected to stumble through all sixteen pages of this. I realise bandwidth isn't free... but good grief. They do set a cookie though, and if you visit again (or, apropos of nothing, reload the first page) the entire article will magically appear for you.

Navigating a roundabout this evening, I chanced up a fellow driver who felt that the act of signalling a left turn was sufficient to allow him to move into the lane to his left, which I, unfortunately, already occupied. Fortunately for both of us, he managed to glance to his left with enough time to jink away and avoid slamming me into the lorry on my left. This is, if not a common incident, then one that I can understand happening quite easily.

However, subsequent to the incident, he caught up with me further down the dual-carriageway and, just to underscore how brain-dead he was, swerved towards me again as he went past. Seriously... you're driving a 1½ ton car and your response to nearly causing a crash is to try and intimidate the person you nearly crashed into with the same manouever. To that person, should he chance upon my little corner of the Internets, I say: you sir, are a wassock.