tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:58:48 +0000http://www.twindx.com/blogger-index.phpIrregular ShedBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-112021718761271142Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:26:00 +00002005-07-01T11:26:27.660ZA history professor and a psychology professor are sitting outside at a nudist colony.History professor - "Have you read Marx?"Psychology professor - "Yes, I think it's from the wicker chairs."http://www.twindx.com/2005/07/sairahs-new-favourite-joke.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-112005615411801453Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:42:00 +00002005-06-29T14:42:34.156ZOver in the States, the Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling, and has ruled that file-sharing networks are liable to their users copyright infringement. Which is a step in the right direction, provided this same statute is applied to weapons manufacturers and the tobacco industry, I feel. Otherwise, there will be a bizarre situation: A company profiting from software used for copyrighthttp://www.twindx.com/2005/06/bbc-news-file-sharing-ruling-fuels.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111962037618973966Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:39:00 +00002005-06-24T13:39:36.193Z Awesome.http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/vote-for-juanzo.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111961808624216898Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:01:00 +00002008-02-22T10:58:48.220ZBack in January, I emailed Cliff Arnall, asking him to quantify his 'equation' proving that 24th January was the most miserable day of the year. His equation didn't scan, wasn't formatted correctly and was full of unquantifiable factors like "the need to take action" and others that were quantifiable in different manners, like "time since Christmas" (in scientific terms, that should be measured http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/cliff-arnall-is-full-of-shit.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111892231983122905Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:45:00 +00002005-06-16T11:45:19.870Z I am sooooooooo excited =) And I'm a 30 year old man! And the spoilers make me even more excited! Aaaaaaaaah!http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/bbc-news-entertainment-tv-and-radio.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111882641053800657Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:06:00 +00002005-06-15T09:06:50.583Z Tulip have unveiled their new 'lifestyle' laptop, the E-Go. Designed more for women with a whole load of cash (especially the $350,000 diamond encrusted model), being modeled on a handbag, I can't help wanting one as well. Not only are they the first PC laptops to look genuinely sexy, they've got a hell of a lot of poke under the bonnet, as they say...http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/tulip-e-go.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111875283439013386Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:40:00 +00002005-06-14T12:40:34.393ZFrom Reuters, and reproduced at Yahoo! UK & Ireland News... TOKYO (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house. Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the fire in January was caused by a spark generated when the urine soaked the machine's http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/cats-use-fax-as-toilet-and-spark-house.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111874998167833400Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:53:00 +00002005-06-14T11:53:01.716ZThis news story is fantastic, not because Frederic Bourdin was caught, but because of his earlier adventures. From the article:Bourdin was jailed in the US in 1997 for posing as a couple's long-lost son. The Texas couple's 14-year-old blue-eyed son had disappeared three years earlier and they travelled to the US embassy in Spain to meet "Nicholas Barclay". Bourdin convinced them that he washttp://www.twindx.com/2005/06/bbc-news-france-holds-chameleon.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111805226969608999Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:21:00 +00002005-06-06T10:04:29.703ZI have an issue with (so-called) Copy Protected CDs. If I go out and buy an MP3 player, I would like to use it to play files made from my legitimately purchased CDs, and to have record companies attempt to stop you - so you would have to buy the tracks from an online store, covered in DRM and lacking the quality that you would choose, to listen to them on a mobile device - is little short of http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/copying-protected-audio-cds.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111771766834141389Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:33:00 +00002005-06-02T13:07:48.373ZWe've started renting DVDs by post, and it's not bad. It started because, a couple of weeks ago, The Times on Saturday was wrapped in plastic (so I couldn't see inside) and proclaimed a free copy of Amélie (one of the most gorgeous films I've seen in a long time). I figured it would be a voucher to take to Blockbuster or something, so parted with my quid and bought it, only to find out when I gothttp://www.twindx.com/2005/06/renting-dvds-by-post.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111763135402593168Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:13:00 +00002005-06-01T14:00:04.673Z Last week saw the release of the second proper Gorillaz album, Demon Days. I'm dead chuffed, because I loved the debut album and was afraid the band was never going to move beyond those songs - especially when you consider the odds against them; a cartoon band side-project of Damon Albarn and his mates. The two albums released between the eponymous debut and Demon Days, G-Sides and Laika Come http://www.twindx.com/2005/06/gorillaz-demon-days.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111693789896487405Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:00 +00002005-05-24T12:32:23.560ZFrom the BBC News website:Two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after apparently trying to make lightsabres by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol. A man, aged 20, and a girl of 17 are believed to have been filming a mock duel when they poured fuel into two glass tubes and lit it. The pair were rushed to hospital after one of the devices exploded in woodland at http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/star-wars-episode-35-no-hope.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111659387371747203Fri, 20 May 2005 12:57:00 +00002005-05-20T12:57:53.750Z And this isn't it. I'm sure by now the hundreds of people who've been visiting hoping that the fake photo of a PS3 I posted previously is real have moved on - details of the next-next-gen consoles are all over the news elsewhere. This is an Atari VCS 2600, same as the one I got a few weeks back, except this one is going to be gutted, and the computer currently in the Ikea frame I did last http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/playstation-3-revealed.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111624663476570577Mon, 16 May 2005 12:13:00 +00002005-05-16T12:30:34.770ZThe institution that is the BBC weather forecast has, from today, changed into an odd 3D affair. Gone is this sort of thing: Now we have an altogether less friendly, more scientific-looking 3D map that can be panned around and zoomed in on, a little like this: Now, I can appreciate the need to move forward - since the computer generated images were introduced 20 years ago, computers have got a http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/new-weather.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111581876194818092Wed, 11 May 2005 12:42:00 +00002005-05-11T13:39:22.103ZI was introduced to Skype a while ago, but didn't really try doing much with it. I was impressed by the Linux version that they provide (especially that they provide Debian packages - ideal for Ubuntu Linux, my distro of choice), but I don't much fancy having to use either a headset or a separate microphone and headphones, and using handsfree phones is a nightmare (I hate 'em). Also, if you're http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/skype-its-pretty-good.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111581407427394355Wed, 11 May 2005 12:21:00 +00002005-05-11T12:22:22.486ZThe BBC News website have an article about a trial of broadcasting TV to 3G phones here. One of the channels available is Cartoon Network, so the editor has trawled through the picture archive and found a picture of a cartoon to illustrate this fact. Any cartoon is okay, right? You can imagine the outrage if Cartoon Network were to broadcast South Park, can't you? Lazy bloody website editors...http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/telly-on-your-phone.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111538468965540823Fri, 06 May 2005 12:23:00 +00002005-05-06T13:06:28.763ZWell, the UK Parliamentary election was a bit of a mixed bag. Some good things came as a result:Significantly reduced Labour majority. Time for a strategy rethink from them, I feel, hopefully involving ditching the 'special relationship' Blair has with George Bush.Failure for the Tories to form the next government. I'd rather have Tory Lite than Full Fat Tories.Resignation of Michael Howard. http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/election-reflection.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111521280787944134Wed, 04 May 2005 12:46:00 +00002005-05-04T13:39:17.013ZTomorrow (May 5th) is polling day in the UK. Make sure you vote. I'd be a liar if I didn't say I'd like you all to vote Lib Dem, but more important than that by far is just getting off down to the polling station and putting an 'X' in a box - virtually any box, for God's sake. Voter apathy is appalling. 150 years ago in the UK, the Chartists were fighting for the right for working class men to http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/go-and-vote.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111513712466605776Tue, 03 May 2005 17:20:00 +00002005-05-03T16:21:32.440Z I've currently got Windows 95 installing on Virtual PC (a fine piece of software that Microsoft bought up - the excellent innovators that they are) because I've had a support call for a school running Windows 95. This is a domestic (at best) operating system that's 10 years old. Christ Himself only knows what spec it is. They don't stand a chance, but I can't tell them that, because the label http://www.twindx.com/2005/05/installing-windows-95.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111453021900115923Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:43:00 +00002005-04-28T11:14:51.693Z<!----><!----> I love crap cars that have been modded to death by their owners who think - no, they KNOW - that they're better than all other drivers because they've got a full body kit.http://www.twindx.com/2005/04/nice-wheels.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111408842586957524Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:00:00 +00002005-04-21T13:00:25.870ZI've been using Flickr for a while now. I stumbled across it at the end of 2004 and gave it a try, and was quite impressed. Since then it's improved continually, and virtually all the pictures I've blogged for the past couple of months have been hosted there. Why? It's easy; it's well designed; it just works really well. There's nice web apps written in Flash that deal with organising your photoshttp://www.twindx.com/2005/04/flickrcom.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111401606146009035Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:48:00 +00002005-04-20T16:54:21.460Z On 6th May, Michael Howard will be signing on as the Tories get stuffed again. The Liberal Democrats will gain strength again. Please click on the Dodo to see how many of the ten reasons you agree with and then consider giving them your vote as well. It's not a wasted vote, as the big two parties would like you to think - the only wasted votes are the ones that are never made. Participate in http://www.twindx.com/2005/04/tory-extinction.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111401051021314977Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:11:00 +00002005-04-20T15:21:50.213ZHere's my recipe for bruschetta. Why? Why not! Makes a change from all the geek crap here =) Take one good sized ciabatta loaf. I like the part-baked ones that you finish off in the oven, because they come out lovely and fresh - if you have one of these, cut it in half and slice each of these pieces down the middle lengthways, so you end up with four, fairly flat pieces. Bake off, or heat up http://www.twindx.com/2005/04/my-bruschetta-recipe.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111339716018745765Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:59:00 +00002005-04-13T12:59:20.186Z On Monday 11th April 2005, Jayne, Kirstin, Jayne's sister Jules and her husband Dave went to see the Manic Street Preachers at Colston Hall in Bristol. And so did I. I took loads of photos and a couple of video clips on my phone, and they are almost all completely terrible. But it was a fantastic gig and we had a great day out. They played a blinder and we were reminded what we saw in them in http://www.twindx.com/2005/04/manics-in-bristol.phpIrregular Shedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4073260.post-111321356781380255Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:59:00 +00002005-04-11T09:59:27.813Z ... the BBC shows us the pedigree of Michael Howard's policies with this Nazi salute. The BBC are not politically biased, by the way. They just hate Tories too =)http://www.twindx.com/2005/04/in-case-we-were-in-any-doubt.phpIrregular Shed