Archive for November of 2005
He's back?
November 29, 2005eBay's new slogan
November 28, 2005“Guy #1: Yo, them pants is hot, where'd you get 'em?
Guy #2: Muthafuckin' eBay, nigga!”
Overheard in New York: The Voice of The City - User ID: Golden_Gurlz
Lordy, that's big!
November 24, 2005
Seriously, it's a virus checker; where does 58 megabytes come from...
Two? Now that's just greedy...
November 22, 2005“The thief reportedly held the store manager at gunpoint and forced him to hand over the two Xbox 360 consoles. According to GameSpot the police responded quickly and apprehended the thief shortly after the robbery took place. The store has now been reopened and everyone involved is said to be ok.”
Pro-G - Prodigious Gaming: Thief holds store at gunpoint to get an Xbox 360
This is just great...
November 22, 2005Decisions, decisions
November 19, 2005
So the plan is to visit Granny in Scotland for Xmas (parents are in Costa Rica; little brother is lunching with his girlfriend's parents since she's working with her loonies). We've got the week between Xmas and New Years off, but I've only got 4 days off left until March rolls around so I'd rather not use those up. Christmas Day is on the Sunday so I can either fly up on Christmas Eve and back the next week, or take the train.
The airlines are clearly gouging on people trying to travel on those days: QueasyJet is the cheapest, and charges £90-£100 for a return flight to Inverness normally, but £120 for a one-way to Inverness on the 24th (£140 on the 23rd). The return leg will set me back £70-£90 unless I want to come back on the 31st, when it temporarily returns to £40 for a day. Flight time is a little under two hours, plus check-in, plus drive to the airport - call it four hours (and then there's parking fees).
The train would only cost £107 return, but the journey time is about 10 hours. And I'd have to lug my luggage on the Tube...
Mind you, when I drove up the other month it took two days and probably cost £120 in petrol.
The airlines are clearly gouging on people trying to travel on those days: QueasyJet is the cheapest, and charges £90-£100 for a return flight to Inverness normally, but £120 for a one-way to Inverness on the 24th (£140 on the 23rd). The return leg will set me back £70-£90 unless I want to come back on the 31st, when it temporarily returns to £40 for a day. Flight time is a little under two hours, plus check-in, plus drive to the airport - call it four hours (and then there's parking fees).
The train would only cost £107 return, but the journey time is about 10 hours. And I'd have to lug my luggage on the Tube...
Mind you, when I drove up the other month it took two days and probably cost £120 in petrol.
The grand old Duke of York, he had 10,000 men
November 18, 2005
I'd have paid cold hard cash for the transcript if we'd sent the Duke of Edinburgh instead (assuming some congruence between Britain and “Brittain” anyway).
MMORPGDot@RPGDot - Bringing you the most news
“Two of the world's biggest publishers of MMORPGs, Korea's Webzen and NCSoft, presented their games to Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, during a Korean visit where he worked to find new bilateral trade opportunities for Brittain [sic].”
MMORPGDot@RPGDot - Bringing you the most news
360 is so over/DS is crap
November 18, 2005Translation: Please buy our expensive tat
November 18, 2005
Apparently the IT industry's disdain for traditional expensive suits is driving the clothing industry to the wall.
IT workers dubbed 'worst dressed' - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au
Here's one of the suggested ensembles you could wear if money was no object (ie you weren't worried that you'd be laughed out of your job):
“Ms Moss believes money should be no object when it comes to dressing well.
"This is not only about wearing suits, just a good quality shirt with a nice print and smart slacks is often enough as long as everything co-ordinates."”
IT workers dubbed 'worst dressed' - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au
Here's one of the suggested ensembles you could wear if money was no object (ie you weren't worried that you'd be laughed out of your job):
Does Uwe Boll have something on all these people?
November 17, 2005
How else to explain all the big names?
Apple - Trailers - Bloodrayne - Trailer
Additional: Some clues maybe...
Apple - Trailers - Bloodrayne - Trailer
Additional: Some clues maybe...
Compare and Contrast
November 16, 2005- Not turn up to the gym for which you are paying £50/membership for six months: silence.
- Cancel the £50/month direct debit: letter within a week telling you to pay on your next visit.
Update: I wrote a letter this morning, slightly sarky and pointing out their different reactions to my not attending versus my money not attending. However, for some reason either OpenOffice 2 or my printer is being bad and won't print the actual text on the page (it just goes through the motions and produces a page with two straight lines on it). So, with it getting late for me to set off for work, I just called their payment line and asked to cancel. Despite their claim that to cancel you need to visit the actual gym where you signed up or send the manager there a visit, they offered to take the point where I cancelled the direct debit as my letter of cancellation and, as per my contract, I'd need to pay one more month after that to be free! I didn't feel like arguing the toss with some spod in a call centre - so I just paid.
Feel Good Inc Live
November 16, 2005...or die trying
November 13, 2005
New toy; bought off eBay (ex display model), delivered today:
Can't make a monkey out of me
November 13, 2005You Passed 8th Grade Science |
 Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! |
Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?
(via missed web — free your inner fez)
(mind you, I'd prefer if they could pass 8th grade CSS so I didn't have to edit their awards so they display properly)
(via missed web — free your inner fez)
(mind you, I'd prefer if they could pass 8th grade CSS so I didn't have to edit their awards so they display properly)
One step beyond
November 12, 2005
Firefox is, undoubtably, a better browser than Internet Explorer. When Microsoft was pushing IE a lot during the early browser wars I remember being annoyed when you'd get to a site that said “best viewed in Internet Explorer” - though more at MS and Netscape for attempting to win the battle by adding more obscure competing tags than each other than at designers who cracked and just coded for one set.
So, this doesn't impress me much and this seems irredeemably childish.
So, this doesn't impress me much and this seems irredeemably childish.
The original Borg are back
November 10, 2005
“Filming is now underway in Cardiff for the long-awaited return of the Cybermen. The two-part adventure, written by Tom McRae, sees The Doctor and companions battle against a new, more deadly breed of Cybermen who are out to convert humanity into their own kind.”
BBC - Doctor Who - Cybermen Revealed
Few more Ice Bar pics
November 09, 2005
Mike sent me four pics he'd taken on his cameraphone (a shexy new black Moto Razr).
Scams
November 07, 2005
In the mail this morning:
Are you perhaps interested in buying AUZSOFT.COM ?
The domain is for sale through Dommerce for $89.95.
If you are interested signup here:
[URL redacted]
Jessy
$90? I checked the whois records and the domain was free (it wasn't when I originally set up my own website) so it'll cost whatever my usual registrar costs.9-year old Timmy doesn't agree...
November 06, 2005...he's allergic to glass.
(Spam just gets sillier)Since it's the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot...
November 05, 2005...a contemporary account of the hangings, drawings and quarterings of the conspiritors in the plot to blow up Parliament. How newspapers have changed in the past 400 years...
“[Fawkes] made no speech, but with his crosses and idle ceremonies made his end upon the gallows and the block, to the great joy of all beholders that the land was ended of so wicked a villainy”
Guy Fawkes Arraignment and ExecutionHe understand the history of comedy, you don't
November 05, 2005(bets on any of the following being made fun of? Scientology, child brides, ritalin, squirty microphones, aggravated couch leaping)
“Extras creator Ricky Gervais has confirmed the show's second series will feature Tom Cruise and also hinted Madonna and Brad Pitt may appear.”
Cruise adds extra punch for ExtrasGet ready for R. Biddy
November 02, 2005“The company who have bought the rights to Rupert Bear have announced plans to bring him "more into the 21st century."”
Digital Spy: Celebrity makeover for cartoon characterThe Icebar
November 01, 2005The Icebar visit bears a few comments I suppose. It's not as impressive as I imagined - I'd persuaded myself it was a veritable cathedral of ice, akin to the ice mansion in one of the recent Bond movies (Die Another Day?). In fact, it's largely an empty room with the walls made of ice bricks. The floor is not ice - which is both good and bad, as several people were worried they'd need to ice-skate to enter. The ceiling is where the heat-exchanger plates are. There's a few ice-benches along one wall and some free-standing ice stools, both with thick padded “cushions” to protect one's arse from the cold. There's an Angel ice sculpture against one wall and a Absolut bottle carved out of another block that you get get into and pretend you're stuck inside.
The drinks - either various fruit flavoured vodka cocktails or vodka-free fruit drinks - come in ice glasses, a rectangular block of ice with a hole in it. You get one free with the £12 entry free and any subsequent rounds will set you back £6 (or £3 for the non-alcohlic drinks). You'll need the gloves on the Emperor-Palpatine-esque robes to drink them as there are few tables around (one ice one in the middle and a few faux-ice perspex ones near the bench).
An interesting bar to visit. Not sure if I'd go back unless someone else really really wanted to go (although Mike suggested taking a date there so she'd be cold and you could offer to warm her up...)Cool Birthday
November 01, 2005
