Archive for September, 2009

September 23, 2009

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The chance of your house being destroyed by a tornado and then that tornado reassembling your house is 0.0000001%. So you need insurance. Tweet This Post

Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene
September 20, 2009

Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene

The shoe could be on the other foot. This is from Australia. Sometimes my country is flawless, usually when it comes to poking fun. This will explain a lot about me. Tweet This Post

Hello? Hello? Dammit!
September 19, 2009

Hello? Hello? Dammit!

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine time goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away? Tweet This Post

Your creepy online facebook stalking behaviour can go too far
September 18, 2009

Your creepy online facebook stalking behaviour can go too far

You know who you are and what I mean. Take this as a lesson you sily people. “Let this be a lesson to all the broken-hearted geeks out there. A 38-year-old Ohio man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he meant to install on the computer …Read the Rest

Fitting in
September 16, 2009

Fitting in

I have often felt like a square peg in a round hole. Sometimes that’s been a good thing, other times, not so much. The thing that has always been clear to me, is not that I need to change my shape, or even find a square hole, it’s that I …Read the Rest

Action Transvestite for MP
September 16, 2009

Action Transvestite for MP

I love this country so bloody much. Only here could a self proclaimed transvestite suggest running for office and it be no big deal. New Zealand of course has a transsexual politician, and the US had George Bush, who was something else entirely. But here in the UK, with its …Read the Rest

Cupertino to replace Poland
September 16, 2009

Cupertino to replace Poland

Now the first thing I will say about this, is that I pretty much completely agree that the camera is the iPod lines current Achilles heel. Adding a camera to the Nano and not the Touch was just weird. Almost as weird as only putting a 3.2 megapixel camera in …Read the Rest

Beagles are adorable – unless you have to sit on one for 5 years
September 15, 2009

Beagles are adorable – unless you have to sit on one for 5 years

Its been almost 178 years since Charles Darwin set sail on the Beagle for what was expected, and in fact was in most obvious ways, a fairly ordinary trip to the south seas. Unlike his ship mates who brought back the usual, like shell art and grass skirts, Darwin came …Read the Rest

IE Users deserve what they get
September 14, 2009

IE Users deserve what they get

I just opened my own blog on a computer running IE 6 and discovered that even the most basic, default template, gets screwed up by this elderly browser. Basically its your own fault for using it, or working for an organisation that does. So you can either upgrade, deal, or …Read the Rest

Wörd of the week – Dorito Syndrome
September 13, 2009

Wörd of the week – Dorito Syndrome

A lingering sense of dissatisfaction and emptiness caused by prolonged exposure to things with little nutritional or edifying content: junk food, video games, twitter Tweet This Post

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September 13, 2009

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Did you know know that the French President, Nicholas Sarkozy is only 5’5″? And that’s in flats, apparently he wears shoes with a 2″ rise in them, getting him to a towering 5’7″. At a recent photo opportunity at a factory in France, apparently the crowd was hand picked to ensure …Read the Rest

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