Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Time Management and gherkins

This is quite an old article, but it remains a good one. The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management.

Although I think he could have used the gherkins, small gherkins, sauerkraut, water analogy. But his loss...

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Bill Gates on the Daily Show for Visa launch

YouTube - Bill Gates on the Daily Show: "Bill Gates on the Daily Show"

No really.

Vista DRM hacked on the day of Vista launch

Alex Ionescu’s Blog � Update on Driver Signing Bypass: "However, it does bypass DRM. As part of the Protected Media Path, (PMP), Windows Vista sets up a number of requirements for A/V software and drivers in order to ensure it complies with the demands of the media companies."

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Real Bradford Curry - To You!

"Bradford has a well-deserved national reputation for being the home of fantastic South Asian food. To order on line, browse our menu and simply add items to your basket. We can deliver your food by courier to your home or workplace, usually within 2 working days of placing your order."

Real Bradford Curry

Result! I have many happy memories of wonderful nights working for BBC Radio Leeds covering Bradford City football matches and dining out on excellent curry; that's what sound engineers do. I even shared a balti with Sir Trevor Brooking once...

Voting machine key copied from online photo

DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE KEY COPIED FROM PHOTO

National Security? We got it...

Tax Takers Send in the Spiders

Wired News: Tax Takers Send in the Spiders: "Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites."

OpenMoko - An open source phone with Linux on it

OpenMoko: "The Revolution to 'Free Your Phone' is Coming..."

Oh and Python and Ruby... Doug's going to love this:

Here's a presentation which seems to not be linked to from the site and really gives all of the details:

http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf

Bommer man in real life

Bommerman in real life: By wearing a different colour beanie you choose which character you are and your position is tracked from the ceiling.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

PDA? So last century...

The Hipster PDA - for all us uber-techies out there...

Francis Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the structure of DNA

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD: "FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago."

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Every Video Game Nintendo, Sega and more!

You know like when someone makes a claim like "every video game" and you think really can it be? Well here are a lot of them, and they are all playable right there on the site.

Every Video Game :: Nintendo, Sega and more!

finetune

Finetune is a quite a lot like Pandora except it seems that you can build your own playlists. And that you can add the music from that playlist so that it streams on your blog. Welcome back to random pages which automatically start playing music when you arrive on them...

finetune

Monday, January 22, 2007

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Online image editing

[you might have seen this on digg, but useful for those no Photoshop/GIMP moments]

Online image editors compared

Cellsea comes out top, might give it a go...

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