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Ramblings / August 27, 2009 / John / 0
J.Daniels: Cables: I has them! J.Dow: w00t! j00 can has cabols! J.Daniels: I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be less painful to just hang myself with them. they’re quite sturdy. I think they could take it. J.Dow: Go for it. Can I have your netbook? J.Daniels: Over my dead b- oh, wait! ‘m wondering if it wouldn’t be
Ramblings / August 18, 2009 / John / 0
So I was gabbing with Shen on MSN and the subject of Warcraft came up. As it does. So I thought I’d have a stab of writing it in pseudocode. So here it is. while(1){ if($n00b){ acceptLols(); print(“GIEF GOLD PLX KTHXBAI”); } else { if($pvp){ spawn(); die(); acceptLols(); } else { grindMindlessly( $bodyPart, $mob );
Josh, Writing / August 17, 2009 / John / 0
So, this pneumatic blonde practically leaps at me as I walk into the hotel function suite. She’s waving her arms and squealing an introduction in a high-pitched nasal whine. I have to stifle a snigger as she tells me her name is Candy. She’s like a five-foot-nothing self-propelled stereotype, shoehorned into less lycra than the
Geekery / August 12, 2009 / John / 0
j.daniels: 15 minute job to move disks and filesystems? That’s impressive. What’s your secret? j.dow: no, fifteen minute job to shut down box, add disks, and bring box back up j.daniels: Ahh. j.dow: the rest of it can be done hot. This is the cunning nature of sysadmins. j.daniels: Sadly, not cunning enough to dodge
Writing / August 11, 2009 / John / 0
Triad i. Chrissy Dances And the waves lap gently at the sand, pushing it up and pulling it back, undecided on whether they should stay or go but nevertheless forced into constant motion by the irresistible pull of the moon. Chrissy sits and waits on the shoreline for the dashing young man who must surely
Geekery, Music / August 11, 2009 / John / 0
It doesn’t do this, by default, unless you’re syncing your whole music collection automatically. Which is a bit rubbish if, like me, you have an 8Gb iPod Touch and a 60Gb music library. See, what I tend to do, to make sure I actually rotate my music and listen to more than one album (:-))
Ramblings / July 22, 2009 / John / 0
I do this from time to time. I pick a random page from the notebook I use in meetings and scan over the notes trying to work out what frame of mind I was in. 22nd February, 2009 Tweedle dum and Tweedle dummer Robots of Death! Oh no! We’re all doomed! dibble flibble wibble! Woo!
Ramblings / July 21, 2009 / John / 0
I’ve just made an awesome discovery! I was having a surf and came across this page detailing the chemical composition of the human body broken down by element. This is an awesome, awesome thing because armed with that page, knowledge of my own body mass, and a periodic table, I can calculate my own atomic
Geekery / July 20, 2009 / John / 0
Ok, so there I was standing in my kitchen and gazing with a little horror and a touch of disgust at my fruit bowl. It had, as memory serves, contained a couple of bananas, a chinese pear, and a solitary wizened looking apple. Imagine my shock to discover a small colony of unexpected grapes lying