Monthly Archive: September 2005

Sep
30

In the Navy

Navy bars Gay UK entrant You can be gay, but not openly so. Or something… Sadly, he’s not all that fabulous looking either.

Sep
29

Windows Vista Beta 2

Beta 2 was released yesterday and I’ve now had a chance to install it and have a quick play, so here are my initial thoughts and some screenshots. The search is now fully working; in Beta 1, it would only search "user" folders. Now you can specify what to search in – you end up …

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Sep
27

Lobster Vending Machine

Cruel and stupid. Only in Japan I suppose. [Originally from Engadget]

Sep
26

Sony NW-E407 Flash MP3 Player

So, I now have a Sony MP3 player (I’ve had a cassette walkman, discman and two minidisk players from them over the years). Ordinarily I wouldn’t have bought it (despite how fabulous it looks) for various reasons, but this one came free with something. The one thing that’s wound me up is that you have to …

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Sep
25

F1 pinup boy

Perhaps it’s because he made his best ever qualifying position in today’s Brazilian Grand Prix, but Christian Klien has come to my attention. More of him please! Click for very big  

Sep
22

Knife Surrender Bin

Pray tell, why has a "knife surrender bin" appeared outside of Mark’s & Spencer’s on Earls Court Road? Has there been a sudden spate of street robberies involving carving knives?

Sep
19

Buy Me!

An absolutely gorgeous external IDE/USB2 caddy from Thermaltake, which comes with a blue backlit old fashioned style meter to show you the transfer speed. Yours for only £30? Can’t go wrong :) Click for bigger [Originally from Engadget]

Sep
15

Funny Shaped Vegetables

My kitchen last night. Click for bigger 

Sep
14

Google Blog Search

An interesting forray for Google into providing a dedicated search just for blogs: http://blogsearch.google.com/ It relies on your blog publishing an RSS or Atom feed as well as sending a ping to a service such as weblogs.com. Movable Type will do this for you automagically. I imagine that over time their regular spider will be …

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Sep
12

Telemarketers Be Damned!

I came across this rather splendid device (called the TeleCrapper) that checks the calling phone number against a list of marketeers and then ensnares the unwary caller in a "virtual" conversation, which is recorded allowing you to snigger at your leisure. Even better when set to a flash movie. [Originally posted on Hack-a-Day]

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