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I originally wrote this a few years ago as an email to describe the joys of my day at work and was accused of poetry. I’m not sure,…
BBC NEWS | Business | Luggage ‘ban’ for Ryanair flyers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3878641.stm I can imagine their boardroom chats now: “If only we could ban those wretched customers, we wouldn’t…
BBC NEWS | England | Essex | DVD pirate’s pitch ends in arrest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/3874417.stm Outstandingly dumb.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/ An oft-quoted book which until recently I never realised was available on-line. So far I’ve reached Chapter 2 (taken 16…
CNN.com – Star names join Python on Broadway – Jul 7, 2004: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/07/07/stage.montypython.reut/index.html Nice – the casting looks pretty good so far although I think I’ll wait to…
Vietnamese Iced Coffee: http://coffeefaq.com/coffaq7.htm#VietIcedCoffee and: http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/vietnamese/00/rec0005.html I’ve only had it once on a trip to Cupertino, and it was the first (and only) time that iced coffee has…
BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Storms cut power and block roads: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3874683.stm Not exactly planned downtime, but it wouldn’t be fair to say unexpected, given the…
Colours on the web – color theory and color matching: http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp “Are you about to give up? Just can’t find the right colours for your page? Well, here…
UserFriendly Strip Comments: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040703&mode=classic Hmm, ok. Maybe my obsession with LEDs is simply a geek thing and not that odd afterall…
They Might Be Giants – Downloads/News/Shows/Ephemera: http://www.theymightbegiants.com/ Similar pricing structure to the iTunes store (99c/$9.99) but the files come direct from the Artist, are encoded at 256kbps and…
Time for another site makeover, this time with {Wordpress} as the main item behind the scenes, which means there’s far more I can do now than with my…
Yay ! My exchange will go live on the 15th of December this year, which isn’t bad at all. Finally, the chance to get a proper service with…
Comment moderation is handy, but it’s annoying from a non-spammers point of view when it appears that the submission has simply vanished. My solution is to add an…
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040628/285741_1.html What a neat idea. I wonder how it works in terms of trigger tech – does a fuse get lit before the air launch ? What about…
http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/ If you want a menu on your site, then this has more than you could possibly have use for. Unless you’re after a bad design award, of…