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Sometimes I Despair For Humanity, Other Times I Just Wish I Had An Armoury
Um, I just went a bit mental at some real fruit loops, so I was in good company for a nanosecond or two … As much as I hate to give them hits, twotowersprotest.org are petitioning for the name of “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”, the recent hit movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s…
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‘Boy, I was *daid* …’
William. Gibson. Has. Blog. *thunk* … sorry, was just picking jaw up from floor. (tip o’ the hat to jason)
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Crapfully Yours …
I can’t believe I haven’t blogged Strong Bad’s Weekly Emails yet …
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Holy Steve Jobs, Batman!
I so want a Powerbook right now … maybe I should start one of those ‘I want something, and don’t have the cash, so I would like random anonymous people to give me cash for no other reason than friendship and altruism’ pages …
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Here Comes The Feline Bit
I can’t believe what I saw earlier today during an ad break in Stargate SG-1 on Sky One … an advert for iams, which is some healthy type food for cats. They actually had the phrase “reduces the signs of aging on your cats teeth by over 28%.” Um, I can understand phrases like “reduces…
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The New Spam
As most people with their own web servers do, I run stats analysis packages over my logs to see which sites are most popular, which pages are getting hit the most, what browsers people use, and where people are clicking on links to my site — these specific stats are called the referrer (or “referer”,…
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Jerry Goldsmith in the UK – BWOOOOONG!
Looks like Jerry Goldsmith is doing a quick tour in March and May, doing two concerts in Japan (one in Yokohama, the other in Tokyo), two concerts in London (scroll down to March 19th), then wrapping up with three in Barcelona in May. Anyone who knows anything about soundtracks will recognise the name. Jerry is…
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Stuff
Usual lack-of-blogging catchup moment: changed website to a light grey background — should make things easier to read started using the creative commons license on everything here — basically says if you want to copy or use anything here, please don’t modify it, and please attribute it. finally managed to blag the Jackass movie soundtrack…
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If I Only Had A Brain …
It’s that time again … time for the King William’s College General Knowledge Paper, aka the King William’s Quiz. The Grauniad features this every year, and it’s become a recurring feature on Telsa Gwynne‘s blog too, as she and her friends try and Google their way out of a seriously tricky paper bag. With evil…