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Server Down!
My server went down and this is the backup restored from August 2010. Sorry for the mess while I try to mop up what I can.
Handegg
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Derren Brown lottery prediction deep maths error
I just finished watching the marvelous Derren Brown’s “How to Win the Lottery” program, as well as watching the live “prediction” last Wednesday where he reveals the numbers after the draw. In the show, he points our attention to The Wisdom of the Crowds, where a group of people guess the weight of something. It’s a pretty good theory...
Iomega® ScreenPlay™ HD multimedia hard drive
Why I bought this... I have a DVD player, but that requires me to get up and put a disk in the player. It’s like the dark ages before the TV remote was invented and you had to get out of the chair to change channel. Back then it didn’t matter because there were only 3 channels, but once we had the remote there was no going back. My...
Random internet stranger, I salute thee.
People are good. We all know that people are good. I’m good, you’re good, we’re all good people. But what about those scary random strangers on the internet...are they good people? My first exposure to the internet was around the mid-90’s. Back then I saw the internet as some geeky communication channel and despite having my own website, I...
Facebook Chat Authentication in C#
Disclaimer By viewing this webpage you have just agreed to the following; this article is not written or endorsed by Facebook, the information contained within it may or may not be accurate, your mileage may very and that I am in no way liable for your stupidity. Updated (26 Sept '11) to include StartTls and new usage of...
No results for "Google" in Bing
Maybe I just caught Bing on an off day?
New features of VS2012 revealed
With the release of Visual Studio 2010 just around the corner, I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at Visual Studio 2012. Here are a few of the exciting things I found. Code window resize A feature you can turn on/off is automatic resizing of the code window. When you are editing your code, selecting the code window maximizes it at...
7 things I would change about Facebook
I really like Facebook. It’s a great website for connecting with friends and sharing pictures and stories. As a simple unobtrusive “information pull” site it allows many non-technical people to have a presence on the web. Twitter is not for the masses and blogging is a whole different ball game. And don’t forget that Facebook is...
Fake internet adverts
Fake internet adverts. How smart are you?
Electric shower settings
Electric shower settings. What the manual says and the reality. Switch onto full power and tweak the temperature control between freezing and scalding until you find that millimeter on the dail that's just right. More Funny? Check out Fake Internet Adverts
Badum tish!
Someone was talking to me on twitter and refered me to www.sadtrombone.com and I got to thinking, why not setup my own site www.badum-tish.com. Checked the name with www.who.is, it was available. So bought the name in about 5 minutes and set the www DNS record to point to my VPS. Created a simple bit of HTML and grabbed a sound effect from the...
Girls in my area!
There's nothing more pathetic than sites that claim "hot girls in (your isp area)" with a bunch of pics. This one was more pathetic than usual. It's the girls who live out to sea that look the hottest... where's my boat?
Having fun with Sky News!
SkyNews.com - Website of the Year [sic] SkyNews constantly broadcasting and ever emphasising the worse aspects of current affairs have an equally low quality website. It's tabloid journalism for the 21st century and it's my choice to pay it little attention and perform my own reality check with each breaking news bulletin. Their...