Archive for March, 2006

Spamusement, Getting up, Unix Rosetta Stone, Stupidity

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Spamusement – cartoons based of subject lines from spam emails

How to become an early riser [shudder]

Unix Rosetta Stone for all the *nix sysadmins

Stupidity, or perhaps more accurately a complete lack of reading skills combined with brutish willful ignorance…

HOWTO: use Firefox and Sage to read weblogs

Monday, March 27th, 2006

This is a brief step-by-step guide to setting up Firefox and Sage so that you can subscribe to blogs such as this one, and easily check if they have been updated.
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Porn Euros, Don’t Shoot, Introduction to MIDI

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Porn Euros – fake Euro notes for 300 and 600 EUR are accepted by newsagent

Don’t Shoot The Puppy! – I particularly like level 3, and the domain name

A nice introduction to MIDI

Brussels trip

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Trip to Brussels over the weekend was good: went to a beautiful town called Ghent on the Saturday, out for a Thai and to a traditional Belgian cafe, Cafe Cirio for a few beers. Saturday’s booze count:

  • Palm
  • Hoegaarden Premier Cru
  • Two glasses of some rather too sweet Gewurztraminer
  • Corona
  • Chimay
  • A brand of Gueuze, whose name I forget
  • I think I had another, but I really can’t remember

Sunday was spent on a wander around the centre of Brussels including the Grand Place (astonishing), a Chimay in the Cafe Metropole, then to the Horta Museum (virtual tour), a gorgeous Art Nouveau house.

We were staying with friends of the gf, whose hospitality was magnificent, including providing wonderful breakfasts and a lovely dinner on Sunday evening before our Eurostar trip back. Thanks!

Marble mazes, Fred Eerdekens, Early Quotes

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Cuboro – a neat marble-maze building block toy. I wants it…

Fred Eerdekens is an artist who specialises in messages spent out by shadows

Quotes made early after the Iraq war was ‘won’

Sand Art, Just, Typography

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Fantastic remix of Just – originally by Radiohead, here remixed by Mark Ronson with vocals from Alex Greenwald (from Phantom Planet). A great video featuring some excellent London grafitti…

Sand Art

The Elements of Typographical Style

Pelmanism, Hidden London, S.O.A.P

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Pelmanism with kittens

Hidden London

Snakes On A Plane

Comic Sans, Mousetrap, Force Skeptics

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Comic Sans – Love or Hate?

Building a better mousetrap

Skeptical of the Force