Category: Miscellaneous

The President of the United States gives a state of the union address each year to the US Congress. Clearly, the most appropriate thing to do with an occasion such as this is to turn it into a drinking game. To see just how smashed you really should be, this table shows the number of…

So I updated WordPress tonight to 2.0. I doubt you’ll notice any difference, but the admin interface is a pretty blue now 😛 Let me know if anything seems to be broken since the update.

On Friday I received the following estimated ship dates for a new iPod I ordered: Wednesday 18th January, 2006 Monday 30th January, 2006 Shipment Notification for 20th January, 2006 Oh well, it’ll be here on Monday 🙂

So there’s been a whole bunch of comment spam attempts (all rather useless because I’ve got comment moderation turned on for just such an event). None of them seem to actually be much use for spamming, they’re all the standard “your site is so great” garbage, then with a few links to popular websites (think…

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert has released a free PDF version of his book God’s Debris. At the moment all I can say is it’s an amazing read that I’m sure I’ll be thinking about for a while. For now my main comment is: download it. Read it. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

I’m not constrained to just reporting bugs on Fridays 🙂 This is an enhancement to existing functionality. When the Finder attempts to copy to a file server and runs out of disk quota, it displays the following, somewhat uninformative, message: This message should be translated to a string informing the user that they are out…

Channel 10 Australia started showing Drive TV this afternoon. My opinion, in short: don’t bother. If you want to watch some good motoring television there’s still only one choice: Top Gear from BBC2 in the UK. And for Australians who haven’t seen it, it’ll soon be available on SBS (article available here).

An amusing take on TinyURL and friends is GiganticURL. For example http://www.allocinit.net/ translates to: http://www.GiganticURL.com/url/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vaHR0c DovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vYUhSMGNEb3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdg==a HR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vYUhSMGNEb3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwd mFIUjBjRG92TDNkM2R5NWhjSEJzWlM1amIyMHZZVWhTTUdORWIzWk1NMlF6WkhrM WFHTklRbk5hVXpWcVlqSXdkZz09aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vYUhSMGNEb 3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdmFIUjBjRG92TDNkM2R5NWhjSEJzWlM1amIyM HZZVWhTTUdORWIzWk1NMlF6WkhrMWFHTklRbk5hVXpWcVlqSXdkZz09YUhSMGNEb 3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdllVaFNNR05FYjNaTU0yUXpaSGsxYUdOSVFuT mFVelZxWWpJd2RtRklVakJqUkc5MlRETmtNMlI1TldoalNFSnpXbE0xYW1JeU1IW lpWV2hUVFVkT1JXSXpXazFOTWxGNldraHJNV0ZIVGtsUmJrNWhWWHBXY1ZscVNYZ GtaejA5aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vYUhSMGNEb3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaU zVqYjIwdmFIUjBjRG92TDNkM2R5NWhjSEJzWlM1amIyMHZZVWhTTUdORWIzWk1NM lF6WkhrMWFHTklRbk5hVXpWcVlqSXdkZz09YUhSMGNEb3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaU zVqYjIwdllVaFNNR05FYjNaTU0yUXpaSGsxYUdOSVFuTmFVelZxWWpJd2RtRklVa kJqUkc5MlRETmtNMlI1TldoalNFSnpXbE0xYW1JeU1IWlpWV2hUVFVkT1JXSXpXa zFOTWxGNldraHJNV0ZIVGtsUmJrNWhWWHBXY1ZscVNYZGtaejA5YUhSMGNEb3ZMM 2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdllVaFNNR05FYjNaTU0yUXpaSGsxYUdOSVFuTmFVe lZxWWpJd2RtRklVakJqUkc5MlRETmtNMlI1TldoalNFSnpXbE0xYW1JeU1IWlpWV 2hUVFVkT1JXSXpXazFOTWxGNldraHJNV0ZIVGtsUmJrNWhWWHBXY1ZscVNYZGtae jA5WVVoU01HTkViM1pNTTJRelpIazFhR05JUW5OYVV6VnFZakl3ZGxsVmFGTk5SM DVGWWpOYVRVMHlVWHBhU0dzeFlVZE9TVkZ1VG1GVmVsWnhXV3BKZDJSdFJrbFZha 0pxVWtjNU1sUkVUbXROTWxJMVRsZG9hbE5GU25wWGJFMHhZVzFKZVUxSVdscFdWM mhVVkZWa1QxSlhTWHBYYXpGT1RXeEdObGRyYUhKTlYwWklWR3RzVW1Kck5XaFdXS EJYWTFac2NWTllaR3RhZWpBNQ==aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBsZS5jb20vYUhSMGNEb 3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdmFIUjBjRG92TDNkM2R5NWhjSEJzWlM1amIyM HZZVWhTTUdORWIzWk1NMlF6WkhrMWFHTklRbk5hVXpWcVlqSXdkZz09YUhSMGNEb 3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdllVaFNNR05FYjNaTU0yUXpaSGsxYUdOSVFuT mFVelZxWWpJd2RtRklVakJqUkc5MlRETmtNMlI1TldoalNFSnpXbE0xYW1JeU1IW lpWV2hUVFVkT1JXSXpXazFOTWxGNldraHJNV0ZIVGtsUmJrNWhWWHBXY1ZscVNYZ GtaejA5YUhSMGNEb3ZMM2QzZHk1aGNIQnNaUzVqYjIwdllVaFNNR05FYjNaTU0yU XpaSGsxYUdOSVFuTmFVelZxWWpJd2RtRklVakJqUkc5MlRETmtNMlI1TldoalNFS npXbE0xYW1JeU1IWlpWV2hUVFVkT1JXSXpXazFOTWxGNldraHJNV0ZIVGtsUmJrN. Fun 🙂

I’m not sure most people really have any idea what this whole “postcasting thing” is going to turn into eventually, but perhaps one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve been listening to is Spodcast. This is where I’m meant to say something inspiring to make you go and listen to it I guess, but to…

So instead of doing anything even remotely productive tonight I decided to make a pretty new theme for this site. Given that I really can’t be bothered doing too much work, I ended up just making a cool new header image, and editing the colours a bit. Still, I don’t think it looks too bad.