via Michele ... "13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them." Time to ban vending machines? They are of course the dark horse of the criminal world, you know. Alternately, a "TILT!" light and buzzer, akin to a pinball machine, might be useful. Early warning systems always rock.
There's been a lot of interest in the Apple 'Switch' ad campaign, telling the stories of real-life people who made the switch to a Mac, with a large amount of interest in the story of Ellen Feiss , the allegedly doped-up student who "beep, beep, beep"'s her way through her tale of schoolpaper-munching PCs. Yah, […]
what abomination is this ... it's alive! ta to iyanus for preinstalling solaris 8 tho i might switch to either debian or solaris 9 at some point ...
subtitle: "But To Everyone Else, They're Petty Wee Things And Don't Really Matter In Life" #1: people who can't be arsed deamazonising URLs. Example: "Hey, that Photoshop 7.0 is pretty neat!" Roll over that link for a second. That URL is huge. HUGE. It's got the Amazon ASIN (their SKUs), which here is B000063EMG; it's […]
Nae luck, Lancey, nae luck son, nae luck, Lancey , with luck you'll get boosted up on a Long March with some dodgy Chinese pr0n satellite real soon now :)
updated my blog template somewhat today, adding permalinks (at bloody last) and a per-post comments facility, which I think michele asked for at some point ... Play nice now :)
... god damn him all to hell ... Just as I finally managed to get Souvenir of Canada from amazon.ca – which is only available in Canada, natch – I notice he's published God Hates Japan ... which – you guessed it – is only available in Japan. I can't even find it on amazon.jp […]
Bah. I never do these. I never, ever do these. Unless it's a "Which Hackers Character Are You?" quiz ... Which Hacker's Character Are You? Find out @ She's Crafty In other news, someone held up a mirror to Google - freaky!
accidentally found a realaudio clip of the "Dude! Sweet!" tattoo thing from Dude, Where's My Car? which i and dekay immortalised on #speccy the other day (as found below). and here it is ...