Archive for July, 2006

Free Zooomr Account

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Zooomr are offering free pro accounts to bloggers. An opportunity to show off my dorkiest photos methinks …

Who says I am paranoid?

Friday, July 7th, 2006

It turns out that people in the UK are really paranoid. I could have told you that as I know that is what people are saying about me behind my back. And the government is after me, that’s why I have this tinfoil hat. Got to avoid the fnords ….
Boing Boing: Widespread paranois

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Uninstalling IE7 Beta

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I installed IE7 again last night and wished I hadn’t, what a nightmare. It’s going to have to be wwaaay more stable than that if people are going to switch back from FF. Any dialog that opened lost focus so I couldn’t click buttons, pages rendered strangely that worked in IE6 …. too buggy. Not [...]

vic20 and bacon

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

vic20 and bacon
Photo by chrisgarrett.
A bit of history in the making. One day this will be featured in the world museum of computing superstars.
Maybe not.
This is my first documented experience of computing. Over on the left is my Brother Jason, in the middle is my cousin Ian (owner of said vic 20 computer) and on [...]

Someone hates soccer more than me!

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Check out this from Ananova
German police are hunting a ‘prankster’ who has been filling footballs with concrete.
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Sunshine makes me ill

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

I Repeat

Photo by chrisgarrett.

I seem to have a problem with the sun. If I stay out in hot weather for any length of time, like not abnormally long, I puke. Not good. Maybe I ought to buy a hat, although hats do make me look even more [...]