Thursday, October 15, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Wireless Charging
Saturday, July 18, 2009
LRO Images of Apollo Landing Sites
When the LRO moves into its full mapping orbit at the end of August these will be from about 50km. Can't wait.
Also, following @apolloeleven on Twitter is giving realtime tweets of Apollo 11 as it happened, to the minute: Long periods of nothing, then bursts of activity.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
An Admin Password For The Universe
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Ubunto @ Key via synergy
Still had problems with synergy not passing though the @ key - kept getting an OMEGA sign Ω instead, although the keyboard plugged into the Ubuntu machine works with the @ key just fine. Managed to find a fix using xmodmap: xmodmap -e "keycode 24 = q Q at at at at" sorted it but had to do this every time.
Adding "keycode 24 = q Q at at at at" (without the quotes) to .xmodmaprc in my home directory meant that at the next startup Jaunty asked me if I wanted to load the xmodmap file, choosing to add it and not display that message next time means that it loads on startup every time.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
About time
BBC News article
Must take a camera next time I'm passing that way.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Daleks are real
Right now it's the front page story on the Doctor Who News Page and scroll down to March 4. I will probably have to find a permalink for the story later. Link on ananova but no photo there and what is probably the original story at The Telegraph with photo.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Serenity Movie Fight Rehearsal
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Homework Issues
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
More flies droppings
First, Patrick McGoohan at the age of 80 on January 13th. Watching The Prisoner on Channel 4 in digs when too poor to go out.
Second, Tony Hart at the age of 83 on January 18th. Vision On was a part of my childhood.
Third, Mahmut Aygün at the age of 87 on January 20th. Who? The Turkish inventor of the doner kebab who first started selling them in Berlin in 1971. I shall celebrate his life by partaking of a large example of his invention tonight.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Remote Desktop
i found out you can also use Ctrl-Alt-End to achieve the same thing, which works in remote desktop.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Dropping like Flies
Amazon Window Shopping BETA
Friday, August 08, 2008
The "Mojave Experiment"
Countdown to Doomsday?
10th September 2008 First Injection and testing of the LHC starts
The protons might get just a few metres into their 27-km circuit before veering off course and being lost, so the operations team will adjust the magnets and try again with a fresh beam until they have systematically threaded the protons around the entire machine. That could take from a few hours to a few days with a crew working around the clock. Then, the team will have to do the same for the beam in the other direction.
The next challenge will be to get the beams in a stable orbit for several hours at a time. Only then can CERN contemplate ramping up the energy to 5 TeV and finally bringing the counter-rotating beams head on at a collision energy of 10 TeV.
If luck is on their side, that should take place around the time of the official LHC inauguration on 21 October.
In early 2009, the protons are set to collide at the full energy of 14 TeV.
Aluminium Foil Helmet's anyone?
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Are you an idiot?
Cuil - Hot or Not
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Ooh, I found something shiny
To draw, you have to zoom in - the zoom level is 4096 times the size of the full circle. You get given a limited amount of ink and can change nib size and colour using simple controls. The amount of ink you have available decreases as you draw and increases over time. Many people are drawing on the ball at the same time and because of this, nothing is permanent.
There are some surprisingly good pieces of art considering the rudimentary tools available and there is a showcase of these at the drawball hall of fame.
Finally a new feature is the drawball playback which shows a history of what the ball looked like at a speed of 40 hours per second.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Gallery: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet | ZDNet Photo Gallery
Takes a while to navigate to each page to come up so for references the entire list is:
10: Adobe Reader
9: Apple (particularly sneaky installs of Safari while downloading QuickTime Updates)
8: Windows Update
7: RealPlayer (more "helpful" add-ons than you can shake a stick at)
6: Java (IN YOUR FACE)
5: Yahoo (knows less about its users than the queen does about shopping in Lidl)
4: Norton Antivirus (should be consigned to Hell)
3: Preinstalled software bundles (useless below-par tat)
2: Outlook/Exchange
1: Flash
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Friday, March 07, 2008
FLASH! Ah-aah Another thing I didn't know
In your latest WXPNews you wrote: "What's more, if you defrag a flash drive, you'll shorten its life because flash memory can only do a certain number of writes before it wears out." I didn't know that! I haven't had one die yet. How long might they last? Any difference between brands? Cheers - Jeremy
ANSWER:
I was surprised at the number of readers who wrote to say this was news to them. Typical flash chips last for anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 "flashes" (writes to the disk) to a particular location in memory, but some older/cheaper flash drives may start wearing out at 10,000 flashes. Reading the memory doesn't wear it out. You can read more details about how this works here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/CRAC5G/080304-Thumbdrive-Memory
This is a concern of many regarding the new trend to substitute flash memory for hard disks in laptop computers. However, the newest flash chips can support up to a million writes per block (with 8000 blocks per chip). With typical use, they'll last for many years. These are the type of flash chips that are being used as solid state memory in computers, and it's unlikely they will wear out before the system becomes obsolete. Read more about that here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/CRAC5G/080304-Solidstate-Storage
With low cost flash cards (as with any media), it's always a good idea to regularly back your data up to another location just in case.
More Gary Gygax
It's not as eloquent as the one I posted yesterday but it made me laugh out loud.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
R.I.P. Gary Gygax
And finally, a couple of comments from The Register
"Not only can I recall spending hours during my youth playing D&D and AD&D, I can also remember some of my early coding attempts such as different sided dice, character generators, random encounter generators etc." by Antony Pearce
"some people get a country mourning for them .. a few get the whole world .. this guy has the flags lowered in worlds without number" by Kurt Lundqvist
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Big Daddy is watching you
and all in the name of concerned parenting
How long before the Government makes the fitting of these mandatory to every vehicle?
Friday, January 04, 2008
Life Imitates Art
Solution:
Art: The Cuddle Mattress
Randall's design incorporates Rockem Sockem Robots by Mattel (which you can STILL buy at Amazon) for something to do when not cuddling.
Life: The Love Mattress
Mehdi Mojtabvi's "Love Mattress" won a Red dot design award
The problem has been around for ages and these ideas for the solution are NOT new. A "Hugging Mattress" US Patent has existed since May 2000 and US Patents for mattresses and pillows with holes, cavities or depressions for various purposes have been around since 1882 still no-one has put one into production.
P.S. xkcd.com is the BEST comic on the web
P.P.S. inventor spot is cool too but it's not a web comic
Friday, December 21, 2007
£48,500 for Four Candles
25 3D Games for Linux
Thursday, December 13, 2007
An Embuggerance Indeed
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Talking of XKCD
Well, after one of his readers, Mike MacHenry did it and blogged it, Randall has finally built his own ball pit instead of a couch. Pictures and comments on the XKCD Blag.
If you want to work out how much it will cost you to fill your own room with ball pit balls, try this handy calculator
The DM of the Rings
Occasionally one is recommended to me that is actually worth reading like The DM of the Rings. This is funny even if you've never played D&D but if you've ever been a Dungeon Master then it will bring tears to your eyes.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Emergency Zombie Defence Station
Well now I have an answer: reach for the Emergency Zombie Defence Station which is WAY better than the "In Case of Zombie, Break Glass" found on techeblog.
Marvel at its awesome-ness (scroll about half-way down for the sign, which is my favourite bit) and remember, "only you can stop the Zombie outbreak!"
The guy has also posted the stencil he used to make the shield and the sign both on photobucket
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Cool Colour Stereograms
Here are some cool ones I just discovered: http://www.colorstereo.com/archtech.gal/arch_dir.htm#Gallery
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Most things look better when you put them in a circle
I think this waterlilies oil is my favourite picture but the Rat Fact on this ratapult made me laugh: In London you're never more than 20 feet away from somebody telling you you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Bowling Scores
WinRAR License Policy ROCKS!
Normally we do require one license to be purchased for
each computer. But we make an exception for home users.
Home users may use their single computer usage license
on all computers which are in property of the license owner.
Best Regards,
Dimitar Tropchev
Sales Manager
I now have WinRAR on my main PC, my laptop and both of the other machines in my house.
Blogger in Draft
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Export favourites/bookmarks from IE/Firefox
In Firefox
- Bookmarks
- Organise Bookmarks
- File Export
- choose a path and filename (default is bookmarks.html)
In IE
- File
- Import and Export... -> Next
- Export Favourites -> Next
- Choose a folder/sub-folder of favourtites -> Next
- Export to a file or Address (default is C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\bookmark.htm) -> Next
- Finish
Monday, July 02, 2007
How to restore XP activation status information after a reformat
- Double-click My Computer, then double-click on the "C" drive.
- Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32 folder.
- Locate the files named "wpa.dbl" and "wpa.bak" and copy them to a safe location such as a USB key or CD.
- Reformat your disk and reinstall Windows XP on your reformatted hard drive, click "No" when asked if you want to activate Windows.
- Reboot your computer into SafeMode (press F8 as Windows is booting up to see the Windows Advanced Options menu and select SAFEBOOT_OPTION=Minimal)
- Double-click My Computer, then double-click on the "C" drive again.
- Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32 folder again.
- Locate the files named "wpa.dbl" and "wpa.bak" (if it exists) and rename them to "wpadbl.new" and "wpabak.new"
- Copy your original "wpa.dbl" and "wpa.bak" files from your USB key, CD or DVD or other location into the C:\Windows\System32 folder
- Restart your system.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Got QuickTime? Got Java? Oh Dear!
Is it me or do competitions like Pwn-2-Own advertising results like this just make it *MORE* likely for unscrupulous types to turn their attention to something they now know has a flaw that can be exploited?
Labels: Java, QuickTime, Security vulnerability
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
BBC - 6 Music - Apple and EMI deal
EMI announces it is getting rid of DRM on its catalogue through the iTunes premium dowload service: about time. I waited until today to blog this one just in case it was an April Fool.
As pretty as they are I've always refused to buy an iPod on the grounds they were too expensive and iTunes has always been an irritation becasue I couldn't play any of its content on my phone which doesn't support its DRM.
Here's hoping that Napster and Sony follow suit soon.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
My Life in Serious Organised Crime
EDIT ** Just found out Mark has an MP3 of the show avaialble on his site here which wilkl be useful when the BBC listen again stops on 5th April **
What counts as a demonstration according to the police is one person with a banner or one person with a badge or one person handing out one leaflet, standing in Parliament Square for just one minute and you have to get permission - in effect a licence - in order to demonstrate.
Amongst the absurdities this law has produced is an occasion where a woman was threatened with arrest for having a picnic in Parliament Square because her cake had the word PEACE iced upon it and the police insisted this counted as an unauthorised political protest.
You will need RealPlayer (or a plugin) or a compatible program to listen to the show and the warning before the program states that it contains extremely strong language: there are four (six if you count "crap" and "poop") swear words in the program (one of which has been bleeped) but please don't let that put you off.
When you've listened to the half-hour program and had a good laugh. Have a look at Mark's own website: Mark Thomas Info | Information and consider showing up on the third Wednesday of every month to take part in one of the mass lone demonstrations. Don't forget to get your application in at least a week in advance by hand delivery or registered post.
Monday, February 26, 2007
BitTorrent does a Napster
They are aiming to give a price that feels like good value relative to what [their target demographic] were getting for free. See
Wired: AP Technology and Business News from the Outside World on Wired.com
Thursday, February 15, 2007
One is NOT a Prime Number
The number 1 is a special case which is considered neither prime nor composite (Wells 1986, p. 31). Although the number 1 used to be considered a prime (Goldbach 1742; Lehmer 1909; Lehmer 1914; Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 11; Gardner 1984, pp. 86-87; Sloane and Plouffe 1995, p. 33; Hardy 1999, p. 46), it requires special treatment in so many definitions and applications involving primes greater than or equal to 2 that it is usually placed into a class of its own. A good reason not to call 1 a prime number is that if 1 were prime, then the statement of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic would have to be modified since "in exactly one way" would be false because any . In other words, unique factorization into a product of primes would fail if the primes included 1. A slightly less illuminating but mathematically correct reason is noted by Tietze (1965, p. 2), who states "Why is the number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about, but since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable." As more simply noted by Derbyshire (2004, p. 33), "2 pays its way [as a prime] on balance; 1 doesn't."
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
"The Soup Is Too Salty"
While you're there, check out this video of the amazing signing voice of 11-year-old Bianca Ryan singing on NBC's America's Got Talent.
While we're on this subject I might as well do a whole bunch and then go back to not touching them as usual.
Here's a clip from a call to a HelpDesk circa 1500 on YouTube
and finally an amazing bit of accordion playing of (part of) Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D
Friday, February 09, 2007
NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Home
NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Home
See also: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Chain Reaction Game
Saw this ages ago, just been reminded of it.
- You get 3 goes.
- Each go has 50 "balls".
- You get one shot to make an explosion and blow up as many balls as possible
My Best 125
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Case Mod - The Ultimate List
New Blogger
EDIT: Yes it did but that's because I didn't see the SWITCH OVER button on the home dashboard ('cause it wasn't there) and I created a new account, set up a new blog with the same name and details as the old one and published it. This totally overwrote the web pages with the articles published in the new blog database. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
How did I get all the old stuff back? Well, of course I had a local backup of my entire site but more importanlty the old blog account was still active, so I just opened that and re-published the entire blog again. Then I checked out what I should have done and waited until I saw the Switch Over button and converted from the old to the new blogger.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Tower Defence Game
For the first few levels you think: "what's the point", then you start thinking: "hey I'm good at this" then you get to the mid-60's levels and think "AAaaaarrgghhhhh!!!!!"
My record is level 79, although that must have been a fluke cause I can't duplicate it. The best I've had since is level 78.
EDIT: I just watched someone get to Level 82. AAAAAAaaaaaaaarrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!
EDIT: The record I know of is now level 84, the author of the game only got to level 90, although I'll bet that was on an earlier version that had more bugsd and was easier than this one.
EDIT: Well what do you know, the site I found this on has exceeded its bandwidth limit. Good job I saved a copy here
If anyone can figure out how to get past level 84 please let me know how.
Kevin Cornell's Cubbyhole Mind
I emailed him and asked if I could use his images on my home page www.cubbyhole.org. He was happy to let me copy the images and host them so long as he was credited and I linked back to his site. Ever since then the cubbyhole pictures have been on my front page.
Now, they have finally been relegated to here
©2005 KCornell used by permission
and replaced by the most addictive little flash game (see the post immediately below this one): Tower Defence by Roman Sanine based on Warcraft 3 Element Tower Defence.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Companies to update websites and email footers before 2007 | The Register
The first I heard of this was December 21st, 4 working days before it has to be implemented. I wonder how many companies will fall foul of this law and what the process for enforcement and punishment is.
60 Power Tips for Windows
Friday, November 24, 2006
Ultramon for Linux
Lloyd Leung » Linux shows you how.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
How to get the look of Vista without giving up XP
pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock. In this release, you´ll get bunches of stuff you´ve never seen before in this pack such as Windows Media Player skins, WindowBlinds skin, new stuffs, etc.
Click on link to freewarefikles download page: Vista Transformation Pack 5.5 - Freeware Files.com - Desktop Category
Friday, September 15, 2006
Astronomy - Xena become Eris
Xena is Eris
Gabrielle is Dysnomia
Astronomy - Dwarf planets get names and numbers - Francis Reddy
I liked the unofficial names better
Thursday, August 17, 2006
How to change the location of the print spool folder
- First, be sure you're logged on with an administrative account.
- Click Start | My Computer.
- Select the drive where you want to store the spool folder.
- Click Make a New Folder under File and Folder Tasks in the left pane.
- Type a name for the folder.
- Click Start | Printers and Faxes.
- Click File | Server Properties, then click the Advanced tab.
- In the Spool Folder field, enter the path to the new folder you created in step 4.
- Click Apply.
- After any documents currently printing have finished, click Yes.
- Click OK.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill
"The idea behind Blue Pill is simple: your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix controlled by the ultra thin Blue Pill hypervisor. This all happens on-the-fly (i.e. without restarting the system) and there is no performance penalty and all the devices..."
'Blue Pill' Prototype Creates 100% Undetectable Malware
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
How to reinstall Windows without reactivating
Need to format your hard drive and reinstall XP, and don't want to have to go through the product activation process again? You can save the activation status info and then restore it after you reinstall the operating system, as long as you haven't made any changes to the hardware. Here's how:
Before reformatting, in My Computer, double click the drive letter on which you installed XP, and navigate to WINDOWS\System32.
Click "Show the contents of this folder" if necessary.
Copy the following files to a floppy, USB drive, CD/DVD or network location: wpa.dbl and wpa.bak.
After reformatting and reinstalling XP, select NO when asked if you want to activate Windows now.
Restart in Safe Mode.
In My Computer, open the WINDOWS\System32 folder and rename the existing wpa.dbl and wpa.bak files (if you have them).
Now copy your old wpa.dbl and wpa.bak files to the System32 folder.
Restart and you should not be requested to activate again. This only works when you reinstall Windows on the same computer and the hardware remains the same.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Why HD DVD is gonna beat Blu-Ray
Friday, March 31, 2006
Can't see for looking
"I was talking to my father-in-law over Christmas. He recounted this
tale. For background, it's worth knowing that he's recently gone blind.
He doing his white-stick training around town with the trainer. His wife was with him, as was the trainer (obviously). This lesson covered how to cross the road: you use the stick to help you find the dropped section for disabled people to cross and stand there. You then listen for traffic. When it goes quiet, you start out and cross over.
After he had done this ten or fifteen times, they let him have a go on
his own. He found the dropped section and waited. Zooom! A car goes by.
Zooom! Another one. Zoom! Zoom! Then he heard one stop. This confused
him and he was left trying to work out what the car was doing. Was he
parking? Had he just stopped to let a passenger out?
As he stood there pondering, he heard a shout from his wife: "Stay where
you are dear, the silly bugger's flashing his lights at you"
Monday, March 27, 2006
Nokia - Nokia Wireless Keyboard
I would use hotmail and msn messenger more when mobile if it wasn't such a pain typing using txt input. It's useful for on trains but pretty useless while walking or driving. Would I really open that up in public and attempt to write messages? Probably. It's no worse than using a laptop and the batteries last a LOT longer.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Google Mars
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Replacement Ear Buds for the best Headphones in the World
I love my Sony Fontopia MDR-EX71SLB Headphones. I have three pairs: one white and two black. The only problem is now that I've had them a few years I've lost one of the earbuds for the white pair.
I've found out how to get a replacements: phone 0870 240 6354 - they cost £3.50 each (not £3.50 per pair) plus P&P of £1.05 plus VAT.
SEME Limited
Hudson Road
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
LE13 1BS
Telephone: 0870 240 6354
Fax: 01664 563 976
email: sony@seme.co.uk
Mon-Fri : 8.30am to 5.30pm Note: For VAIO Spares & Accesories, please call 0207 365 2947
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other
In response to that, today, Ananova has a story about a wife who stabbed her husband for refusing to have sex with her even though she wore a G-string and everything...
A police spokesperson said: "She did not think she did anything wrong, she kept saying that he was her husband and that he had to fulfil his obligations and that because he didn't she had the right to punish him.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Virtual Air Guitar ROCKS!!
At last! A reason to actually own a webcam. I want one of these. The BBC article is cool but the Project Air Guitar website is even better.
Gay Penguins don't like Swedes
Article appeared on Wanadoo's Quirky News from Ananova
"Shy Swedes fail to seduce gay penguins (c) Rex 2005 Swedish female penguins have failed in their mission to seduce gay male Humboldt penguins in a German zoo. Bremerhaven Zoo introduced the female penguins to try and establish more breeding pairs in its penguin pens. The zoo has far too many male penguins, while Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden has an oversupply of females. At Bremerhaven, the birds, which find new mates every year, form all-male pairs and adopt pebbles as if they were eggs. Last year, officials said the females had arrived too late for pairing. And this year, the birds arrived in time, but were too shy. 'The Swedes are rather stand-offish,' said zoo chief executive Heike Kueck. Four local females were quickly snapped up but the rest of the 22 penguins ignored the newcomers and formed broody male couples. Last year, homosexual militants bombarded the zoo with e-mails and protest letters, claiming it was interfering in the penguins' freedom of sexual orientation. "
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Headline of the Year?
Monday, February 13, 2006
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
How to prevent a program from being displayed in the Most Frequently Used Programs list
Windows XP displays a list of most frequently used programs in the Start menu. If you don't want a program to be displayed there, you can prevent it (on a program-by-program basis) by editing the registry. Here's how:
- Click Start Run.
- Type the following in the Run box: regedit
- In the left pane of the registry editor, navigate to the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\
- Click Edit New and select String Value.
- Name the new string value NoStartPage
- Leave the data value empty.
- Close the registry editor.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Motivator: Inspire! Motivate! Mock!
Friday, January 13, 2006
Cant see for looking
"I was talking to my father-in-law over Christmas. He recounted this
tale. For background, it's worth knowing that he's recently gone blind.
He doing his white-stick training around town with the trainer. His wife was with him, as was the trainer (obviously). This lesson covered how to cross the road: you use the stick to help you find the dropped section for disabled people to cross and stand there. You then listen for traffic. When it goes quiet, you start out and cross over.
After he had done this ten or fifteen times, they let him have a go on
his own. He found the dropped section and waited. Zooom! A car goes by.
Zooom! Another one. Zoom! Zoom! Then he heard one stop. This confused
him and he was left trying to work out what the car was doing. Was he
parking? Had he just stopped to let a passenger out?
As he stood there pondering, he heard a shout from his wife: "Stay where
you are dear, the silly bugger's flashing his lights at you"
Does my bum look big in this?
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Lady Gay
Earl Grey tea was the favourite tea of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Fictional characters who preferred the tea include Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Sir Leigh Teabing from the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
So why the blog? 'cause I just found out that Lady Grey didn't like her husbands tea and got her own version called Lady Grey. That's all.Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Xbox 360 Software Compatibility List
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
The things you hear when you haven't any earmuffs
Part of the conversation turned to favourite movies and of course Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was mentioned and the merits of film vs book. Then someone said that Weta Workshop also did the masks and armour and weapons for Disney's new Narnia movie and the merits of film vs book came up again. It was then that someone said something I wish I didn't know but if I have to carry this burden then so must you. While reading "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" at the age of seven or eight this guy was reading the description of the White Witch and clearly remembers with fondness getting his first "hard on". /me puts fingers in ears "LaLaLaLaLaLa"
Friday, November 11, 2005
Serbs line up for testicle shocks
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
GUERRILLA INNOVATION: GAYmobile
Friday, August 05, 2005
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Download details: Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
CMOS Password Recovery Tool
'cause no-one will ever use this to try and hack someone else computer will they?
Hey Bobby, What's the French for Diesel?
WB
BodBlog is nothing to do with poking fun at personality traits or quirks of mannerism or speech that are perceived as effeminate (despite the fact that my gay friends thought it was funny).
BodBlog (from bod for "body" or "person") is about poking fun at anything or anybody that takes my fancy in the true nature of the satirist whose freedom of speech has been been protected for hundreds of years and is even specifically not included in the "hate crime" laws being passed in the UK thanks to (amongst others) two of the greatest comedians of our generation: Rowan Atkinson and Eddie Izzard.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Batman Begins
Went to see this last Thursday. Thought it was the best movie I have seen in a long time. Way better than the Star Wars thing.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Determine USB Power Load
Check the power demands on any USB port in Windows XP by
right-clicking My Computer and choosing Properties,
Hardware,
Device Manager.
Double-click Universal Serial Bus controllers,
double-click the USB Root Hub entry,
choose the Power tab, and add up the amounts in the 'Power Required' column."
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
How to Prevent Users from Using USB Storage Devices
- In Windows Explorer, navigate to the systemroot folder (usually named WINDOWS) and then to the Inf folder.
- In the Inf folder, right click the file named Usbstor.pnf and select Properties.
- Click the Security tab.
- Find the name of the user you want to prevent from using USB storage devices in the list labeled Group Or User Names.
- In the Permissions list, check the Deny checkbox next to Full Control.
- Click OK.
Repeat the above steps for the file named Usbstor.inf.
Now the user(s) you selected will not be able to install USB storage devices to the computer.
If one is already installed, you'll need to edit the registry to prevent USB devices from working.
- In your registry editor, navigate to:
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor - In the right pane, double click the item labeled Start and in the Value Data field, enter 4 (make sure Hexadecimal is selected as the data type).
- Click OK and close the registry editor.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Black Hole
Sky News : Don't Panic! Black Hole Made On Earth
So it absorbed the jets of particles and then evaporated all within 10 million billion billionths of a second (1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 th Seconds 1x10-25 s). I'd like to see the camera that detected that.
Friday, March 18, 2005
The Einstein@Home Starsphere Screensaver
The primary element of the screensaver is a rotating celestial sphere showing the known constellations, along with the current zenith positions of three gravity wave detectors. Also shown are the positions of the known pulsars and supernovae remnants, and a marker indicating the positions being searched as the calculations proceed. When the graphics are shown in a separate window (not as a screensaver) the user can control the display with the mouse and keyboard.
When the graphics are displayed in a separate graphics window (rather than as a screensaver) you can control the display with the mouse and keyboard. To zoom in or out or rotate the starsphere hold down the appropriate mouse button and move the mouse up and down or left and right.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
XBOX Uber Gaming
Some of the bits you need to do it yourself for an awesome increase in graphics quality and sound are:
This Joytech Xbox Digital AV Cable
A Decoder with an optical input like this one from Creative
Decoder DDTS-100 - Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES, Pro Logic II & DTS Neo:6
And some 5.1 speakers like these
There are other systems available but "without optical input, you cannot enjoy aural features like Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Instead, you'll be treated to simulated surround sound through a circular-surround algorithm."
Oh yeah, and some games that actually produce 5.1 output like Halo 2 or just about any DVD.