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since 18/9/2003

Friday, October 29, 2004

Budapest

If you where wondering why there have been no posts for the last week or so, its becuase I was on holiday in Budapest with my Bird.

Had an wicked time, and if anyone is thinking of a city break in remarkable city, on a budget I recommend it.

The city itself is amazing:

Arcitecture, around evry corner was another amazing building, with statues all over it, you could use a roll of film on any street.

Food, it all tasted so good, particuarly the restarunt Fatal, you get food served in pans, or on chopping boards, meat and plenty off it. Suffice to say you wont have a bowle movment for a while after eating there.

beer.... so good. When we got back to gatwick I had a pint of in the Weatherspoons there, there stella was almost un-drinkable, perhaps I was spoiled by there Heinken or there local brew Dreher, lovley.

Monday, October 18, 2004

Surfer, Google thy self

We all know that in terms of the Internet, Google is the chosen one to lead the frustratied surfer to the promised land of relevent in formation. The way google works is it periodicaly "crawls" across the internet. This means tha it follows links from one websit to another saving inforamtion as it goes. It rates websites by how many other sites link to it, seperating the wheat from the chaff.

You can now use this exact same technoligy on your own hard disk(s).

Google have released a beta product called Google Desktop . This is software that sits on your computer. When you are not doing anything it "crawls" your hard disk(s) creating a database of what infomration you have on you harddisk or in your e-mail. So when you want to find somting you open up your Google desktop webpage and search, it will come back with the answers in milisecons.

I imagine you are wondering if this is safe and secure (and if you havent been wondering that then you realy should have been). No information from Google Desktop is sent back to Google, so you dont have to worry about that.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

MSN down

FYI

if you where wondering why MSN messenger has not bee working of late, this is why

Monday, October 11, 2004

Spoooky

My geekier namesake Stuart Winter of http://www.interlude.org.uk/ has been to see a band, at reading uni.

We have now been in the same town at the same time, chilling

interlude Photo Archive: Viewing album "GLC at Reading uni"

Gadgets for Girls

Apparently gadgets and other tech that is pumped out and markted by the large tech compaies is not "girl friendly" so to combat this they, make gadets pink, or put pretty patterns on it. Dont get me wrong, I can understand what they are trying to do, and I belive in making technoligy as inclusive as possible. But please, if what girls realy want is to have a vanity mirror built on to an MP3 player, otherwise then dont undersand it then there is not realy any point in having it. I give them (and people in genral) a bit more credit then that.

For a more balanced (and very hello kitty) focused look at girls gadgets check out shiny shiny

Weeble, Thebrownhaze saultes you.

You may or may not be farmilar with Weeble and Bob, one of the funnyest\wierdest things on the net. Well Weeble alos makes a number of other funny\wired toons you may like to have a look at.

These all require sound, othewies you wont have a clue what is going on

Everyone loves magical Trevor Beccuase the tricks that he does are ever so clever.

Have you seen the marvilous Bread Fish

Chocolate? No one hates the chocolate

Have a browse for yourself at:

Dont bother trying to understand it, you will just hurt your brain.

Friday, October 08, 2004

I must stop...

.. setaling all of my bosts form www.b3ta.com

Geek of the week

I have no ida what this is all about. I did an image search on the word "server" on google. One of the things it came up with was this, .some guys toilet that was also some sort of comms room, and impresively geeky feat. If you where wondering what sort of pearson would do such a thing, well here he is , a bit like an ugly toby mguire. And incase you where wondeing if a man like this could have a girlfriend, or for that matter, a cat, here they are too

bless there little cotten socks the spoddy mingers.

Hes Back

Our small, hot suace filled friend has returned to the world stage of the interweb. And already he has foiled a scam to get £60 out of him.

Find out more @

Hot Sacue Bird.com

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Look no hand

more b3ta boardieness, this time its about embarasing moments

"Look - no hands!
A few years ago at work I went to meet some new clients. There were about 5 people in the room I hadn't met so I went round the table shaking hands with them. I went to shake one guys hand and too late I realised that he didn't actually have one - he had a sort of stump/proto-hand affair just off his elbow.

So I shook that instead.

Both of us knew it was weird. I certainly don't think I heard a word anyone said for the rest of them meeting - I just kept thinking 'WHY DID YOU SHAKE THE STUMP!!!??? WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST WAVE OR SOMETHING??'.

In retrospect though I think it was actually right for me to treat him the same as everyone else. But it still felt weird...."

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

what a bush

PC Security document updated

I have stuck in a few new bits to my pc security docment, including some usfull plugins for firefox you may want to check out.

updated - here

Monday, October 04, 2004

Hasselhoff, you are our god

As we all know David (knight rider) Hasselhoffis a cock end of masive proportions. But his ablity to be cringworty and cheesy seems only to endeer him to others. One such person has made a fan site, a fan site with a flash into.

I think it is safe to say that this fan is alomost as miassive a cock end as the smarmy one himself.

brace your self...

http://www.davidhasselhoffonline.com/
needs sound

man at C&A, Chav at Arogs

You may well have seen this one beffore. Arogs know there target audiance so well that if you search on "chav" on there website, you will get a list of gifts idally suited to the chav in your life.

lizzy duke here we come

Friday, October 01, 2004

The perks of being Dyslexic

as usual, taken fom the www.b3ta.com question of the week

i get paid by a big credit card company
to 'work from home'

unfortuantly i'm dislexic, so i tend to 'wank from home instead', 8 hours of being paid to watch porn, cant argue with that..