Ferchrissakes … “A woman who is worried her husband might leave her if she loses her looks has insured her face for £100,000.” I don’t know who’s the worst here — the wife for doing it, the husband for letting her do it, or the insurance company for taking the cash. Nicole Jones, of Bristol, […]
“Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it’s Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas… And the ninjas are all on fire, too.”– Jason JonesBungie Studios Watch the trailer in Quicktime format, or keep an eye or two on the news […]
Today we’ve had further proof that The Register, aka el reg, is sliding further down the slippery slope into the toilet. Kieren McCarthy has posted a scaremongering article claiming that the .org top level domain has disappeared down a nice big black hole, due to incompetence by the new .org owner, the Public Interest Registry. […]
For some reason, the toolbars and menu disappeared from Windows Explorer when I did my usual method of firing it up — Windows+E. Just as it was annoying me enough, I googled for windows explorer “missing toolbars” and found a utility to restore missing toolbars. It says it’s only designed for use with IE and […]
Looks like some folk have found a way to extract playlists from people’s iTunes 4 players, thus letting anyone see what you have in your iTunes collection — but then some other folk have figured out how to let others download your music — voila, instant p2p app. The burning question is did Apple know […]
In some alternate reality, this kind of thing would happen every day. 59 Democratic state legislators in Texas went walkabout to avoid voting on measures to aid their opponents. While the renegades were off in a Holiday Inn across the state line in Oklahoma, where Texas state troopers could only politely request that the legislators […]
Fellow Scottish person Meg Pickard moved recently, and made this IKEA observation … drove to good old IKEA to pick up a few selected bits and bobs – a TV bench, couple of stools, desk lamp, and the usual extraneous guff. No tealights though, which is a first – as I’m sure I’ve mentioned here […]
We‘re going nuts right now getting ourselves ready for the release of SmoothWall Corporate Server 3.0, so I haven’t had much of a chance to update the Matrix Reloaded daily stuff — hopefully at the weekend I’ll get a chance.