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Tab Abuse!
<lewis> hi Leeah, alex, FlipShades, FlipShades
<FlipShades> hi lewis, lewis
<lewis> uh
<lewis> i meant FlipShades, FlipShades
<lewis> oh fuck me
<lewis> i meant FlipShades, Flight_23
<FlipShades> Is Laughing Out Loud (@ lewis, lewis)
<lewis> jesus jewish fucking christ
<FlipShades> Ha Ha Ha
<Flight_23> HAHAH !
Posted in Humour at 15:03 |
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Creative Commons And RSS
Following Neil Turner's lead by updating the RSS 2.0 code I now have a much more aggregation friendly feed, plus it now includes my CC Licence. I've not had one on my blog for that long... I finally decided I might as well move over to one.
I do write some original material, but I also repost a lot of stuff here that I didn't write; so it's a bit stupid claiming copyright over it when it's not mine to start with. I can't really claim entire copyright over the design either, as I've taken bits from tutorials here and there... but I've usually mentioned those in my entries. I'd rather someone borrowed the text from my site than the design though! Hence the Creative Commons Licence. :)
Posted in Blog at 15:09 |
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Andy Went To Pieces?
Pilot: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew?
Pilot: Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: *Andy* went to pieces?
Pilot: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: *Howie* came unglued?
Pilot: Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Pilot: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Pilot: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.
I love the Airplane! movies. :D
Posted in Movies/TV at 15:01 |
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Movable Type 3.15 Released!
A vulnerability has been discovered in all 3.x releases up to 3.14 that allows malicious people to send email through your blog. You should upgrade to 3.15 ASAP!
If you want to do a very quick update from 3.14 (don't do this on any other version!) all you need to upload are the following: doc, lib/MT/Util.pm, lib/MT/Mail.pm and lib/MT.pm
Posted in Movable Type at 10:10 |
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Social Networks
They're pretty hard to explain, so I'll let you go to the website and read up on it for yourself, but they do make nice pretty patterns!
Posted in Computers at 23:55 |
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Whoops
"An experiment onboard the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on. The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination on Titan."
Posted in Humour at 19:47 |
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Hilarious Classified Ads
Check these amusing adverts out. If you're a Jimmy Carr fan, like me, you might recognise them from his 'Live' DVD.
Posted in Humour at 15:31 |
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No Follow
Bloggers now have a new weapon in their arsenal. The rel="nofollow" attribute for links.
Six Apart has announced in co-operation with Google, Yahoo and MSN Search and many other blog vendors a massive joint anti-spam initiative based on this new attribute.
Six Apart are fully involved in supporting it within their products: Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal.
They've already released a simple plugin for Movable Type users that'll automatically add rel="nofollow" to all URLs entered into trackbacks or comments.
As Neil Turner says:
This is very, very good news. I don’t expect it to entirely defeat comment spam but the spammers are going to have to get very crafty to get around it. That said, it’s only effective if everyone implements it and gives the spammers nowhere to hide.
I agree with that. I've implemented it on my blog, and I've been using Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin for a few months now, so spammers beware. There's nothing for you here, please move along quietly.
Posted in Movable Type at 23:33 |
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Closing Old Comments
I didn't want to have to do it, but it's getting ridiculous. I have started to close commenting on old posts.
The amount of comment spam is growing daily, I had to delete almost 100 spams today, which hadn't been picked up by MT-Blacklist unfortunately.
So from now on, after 14 days of a post being written, commenting will be disabled on it. Sorry if that inconveniences anyone, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Posted in Movable Type at 00:19 |
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Thanks For The Forwards!
Dear Friends:
I want to thank all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me your doggone chain letters over the past two years. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy. Oh yes, lucky too; but I am still waiting to win the lottery.
Because of your concern... I no longer can drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans. I no longer drink anything out of a can because I will get sick from the rat feces and urine. Forget Vodka because if it can cure smelly feet, don't know if I want to be drinking it.
I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer. I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me. I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda bombs in disguise.
I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops. I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a stupid number for which I will get a phone bill the size of Texas with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan. I no longer eat pre-packaged foods because the estrogens they contain will confused about which sex I am supposed to be attracted to.
I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers. I no longer allow my teenage kids to date because they will take their kidneys and leave them taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice. I no longer have any sneakers-but that will change once I receive my free replacement's pair from Nike. I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe. I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me and St.
Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.
Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
(The BIBLE did not mention it works that way!)
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl who is about to die in the hospital (for the 1,387,258th time). I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
Yes, I want to thank all of you soooooooo much for looking out for me!
I will now return the favor.
If you don't send this e-mail to at least 1200 people in the next 60 seconds, a large bird with diarrhea will dump on your head at 5:00 pm tomorrow afternoon and the fleas of a thousand camels will infest your armpits.
I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's 8th husband's 2nd cousin's 3rd husband's ex-wife's mother's beautician.
Best wishes and again, Thanks!
Sent to me via email... of course.
Posted in Humour at 22:48 |
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Email Is NOT Instant
Rant time.
I am fed up with people that EXPECT the email they send to arrive instantaneously EVERY SINGLE TIME. They don't realise that email has never been an instant technology, it's not really supposed to be. Yes, it can arrive pretty much instantly... but that's not going to happen every time you send something. That's just the way it is - it's just much quicker than sending something via the Royal Mail / Postal Service.
The Internet is made up of thousands of different systems, all running different types of hardware and software, and connected via different types of links. It's not totally unlikely something somewhere is going to fail... sorry, but it happens quite regularly!
My provider for instance has a layered email system. Email arrives at their firewall, then passes through their clustered anti-virus servers, and finally gets to the clustered mailbox servers. If one of the many systems is overworked or not working properly, the email gets put in a queue and delayed. Plus if your ISP's SMTP server is running slowly/overworked/dead your email will also end up in a queue before it's even sent to OUR email servers.
What can I do about any of this? Nothing. Once Send is clicked and the SMTP server receives the message, it's out of my hands. So when email is delayed, get on with something else... there's nothing anyone can do except wait.
If you want to send a message instantly to someone - they have software called Instant Messengers for that.
*sigh*
Posted in Rant at 11:19 |
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Conan O'Brian & Bill Gates
At this years CES conference, Bill Gates invited Conan on to interview him, and give us some of his trademark comedy.
He came on stage and started comparing some of the biggest CEOs in IT to other people/things, here's the one he did of Bill Gates:
Then he showed some "Holiday Snaps" he and Bill had taken with a new digital camera, this one is classic:
Posted in Humour at 14:56 |
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Hiding Email Addresses
Something I should've done a long time ago, changing the MTCommentAuthorLink tag so it never shows email addresses, it'll only show a URL if you enter one.
So please, use your REAL email address safe in the knowledge I'll be the only one seeing it - it will NEVER be displayed on my website.
Posted in Movable Type at 16:24 |
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Great Comebacks To Put Downs
Man: Haven't I seen you someplace before?
Woman: Yes, that's why I don't go there anymore.
Man: Really? I heard it was because everyone there calls you a fat slut.
Man: Is this seat empty?
Woman: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down.
Man: There's no need to get on your knees and suck me off just yet
Man: Your place or mine?
Woman: Both. You go to yours, and I'll go to mine.
Man: That's cool, cause after I'm done shagging you in the back of my car, I don't give a fuck where you go.
Man: So, what do you do for a living?
Woman: I'm a female impersonator.
Man: That explains the moustache then!
Man: How do you like your eggs in the morning?
Woman: Unfertilised.
Man: No problem, I'll just shoot my load up your arse
Man: I would go to the end of the world for you.
Woman: But would you stay there?
Man: Probably, cause you seem like the kind of chick that is impossible to shake off once you've been shagged.
Man: Where have you been all my life?
Woman: Fortunately, somewhere else.
Man: Just as well cos I've been shagging your mum while your dad watches.
Man: You're pretty
Woman: Piss off!
Man: Don't interrupt, You're pretty... ugly, you fat bitch.
Posted in Humour at 00:59 |
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