Archive for March, 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Windows Vista - Beta something or other…

Vista: A distant view or prospect,

At this point, for MS its still distant prospect (2007?), for me, its starting to feel the same.

You see my companies ‘other half’ - the folks over in NZ are a big bunch of Microsofties and we are the Unix geeks, but today they sent over the golden prize - [...]

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Friday, March 31st, 2006

Who you gonna call?

Those wacky guys at Mozilla are at it again.

I found this whilst snoopingwith the firefox web developer extension and firefox’s ‘can’t find the server you are looking for’ error message screen:

xul:button xmlns:xul=”http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul” id=”errorTryAgain” label=”Try Again” oncommand=”retryThis();”/

Spot the Ghostbusters reference?

It gets better, if you visit the link

Wordpress’s rich text editor must die!

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Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Good god.

There is a guy on TV at the moment who weighs 345 kilos (759 lbs).

Its hard to feel sympathy for a guy who hasn’t walked in 7 years and yets sits in front of salad refusing to eat it and demanding a hamburger and soda…

After a bit of googling, it seems he died:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001841.html

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Monday, March 27th, 2006

Apple Support SUCKS.

sigh

Belinda’s second ibook, which she received after the first one died in the first week of ownership has been running fine, but I’ve been meaning to transfer her applecare from one ibook to the other.

What a challenge.

Because its now 3 days and 1 year since the laptop was purchased, apple ‘procedure’ insists that the proof [...]

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Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Tully

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Originally uploaded by herods.

Being the eldest pet is a burden isn’t it Tully?

Maybe she was just concerned she was having a bad hair day…

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Saturday, March 25th, 2006

PostSecret…

This is a very popular site/blog, where you can send a postcard with your darkest secret to a guy who’ll put it on the internet.

Whilst its a great idea, with a good purpose (it support suicide prevention), I really do wonder how so many people with the most perverse secrets seem to be artistically talented?!

I [...]

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Oh no! The American Family Association thinks ‘hell’ is a bad word

Here we go, another beat up on the ‘where the bloody hell are you?’ ad.

They fail to mention that these lunatics also want to boycott Ford for supporting homosexuals.  They also seem concerned that Australia may become a muslim nation.

Obviously they care about families, just not brown or non-christian ones

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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Google lawsuit about search results.

I blogged about this a few months back I think…

Its a bit hopeful, how can a search engines result ranking be considered ‘Free Speech’?

Oh well, if they are successful…. god help Google!

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Sunday, March 19th, 2006

The Internet ate my brain…

sigh

Another lazy sunday, i must put this computer down and go do something  (like sweep the front of the house, or maybe, do some work…)

I’ve had bread, a little bit of chocolate and now the internet….. life is draining…. must get up…. nap is coming….. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Sunday, March 12th, 2006

More of Lara/Where the bloody hell are you?

Seems they are sending the lovely Lara to the UK to sweet talk the people who have banned the ad on TV

The strange quote is:

“It seems a little bit silly,” Mrs Bingle said. “I’m sure that once they see Lara, it will be fine.”

Note the wording, its see Lara, not meet Lara or talk to [...]

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