Amazon Recommends…
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Funny, I don’t remember buying anything like a Swiss Army Knife from Amazon, so I’m not sure why they recommended this item to me.
Who on Earth is going to carry that around? B->
Archive for the 'Odd' Category
Is this the worst band in the world?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Thanks to Martin for pointing this YouTube video out:
At least they had the sense not to put their names against this video! B->
Spellcheckers Say The Funniest Things! – Part 2
Friday, January 11th, 2008This seems to be becoming a series! B->
While emailing my team about my current project, the function name “getMetadata” tripped the ThunderBird chelling specker, which suggested I might wish to replace this word with “vegetated”!
I didn't know whether to be amused or insulted! B->
Entertaining Website
Monday, November 19th, 2007This looks like any other Dutch online shop, but just wait a moment (or mouse over the blue cup on the right-hand side).
Spellcheckers Say The Funniest Things!
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007I'm not sure whether to be surprised, concerned or amused that when I typed an email in Thunderbird this afternoon, the spell checker didn't recognise the word 'Firefox'! B->
Future History (Or: Excuse me, I think my brain is leaking!)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I stumbled across a link I bookmarked many, many years ago last night and (thanks to a couple of minutes on Google) managed to find the page again, as it’s original host had removed it.
Enigma is a UCLA organization which exists for people who, in their own words: “share interests in gaming, science fiction, fantasy, [...]
My Simpsons Avatar
Friday, October 19th, 2007A little while ago it was popular among the ColdFusion Development community to create a Simpsons character that looked like yourself. I did as everyone else did, but as I wasn’t actively blogging at the time, the file stayed on my desktop until I decided it was time to tidy up on the train this [...]
Starbucks are based in Seattle, right?
Friday, October 5th, 2007As I’m a coffee lover (I wouldn’t say connoisseur, but I do like good coffee) and as I’m working in Central London quite a bit these days, I decided to get a Starbucks card this morning.
I tried to register it later, but discovered that I couldn’t click the button on their website, it just refused [...]
Peacocks!
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007I got home from work yesterday and my Brother-in-law pointed out that there was a Peacock sitting on our neighbour’s roof!
That was strange enough, but I heard a odd noise just before going to work this morning and my Sister-in-law discovered that the original Peacock was still on the neighbour’s roof, but now there’s another [...]