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// November 30th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
Yup, just a quick selection today including a smattering of funny European adverts and the ubiquitous Robot Chicken’s take on Mario in GTA land …. which is a work of sheer brilliance 
Happy viewing!
// November 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
Next time you get a call from a tele-marketter then feel free to pretend he’s called a crime scene… oh and don’t forget to ask him if he’s gay
// November 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
Don’t worry – this isn’t actual porn, but rather a distressingly large collection of accidental “porno” moments from classic games we’ve known and loved.
Check out the Donkey Kong one for snort worthy giggles:
The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive
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// November 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
I’m having a spot of bother with my motorbike at the moment.
The short version (the long version is the same but with a considerably higher expletive count) is that I was on my way back home last night and found myself faced with a new BMW, with new xenon headlights and a complete inability to find the dip-switch.
As this reduced my visibility to approximately nothing I slowed down to let him pass. Unfortunately, as I was approaching the car (and therefore the blind spot created by his uber lights) I was unable to see a series of large and pointy stones lying on the road… and hit one. Front tire goes pop!!!
I got lucky – I was already moving more slowly than I would have been and so was able to keep the bike upright and coax it to the pub car park (some 250 meters away) before the front tire ran out of air completely. Had I been moving at 40mph then I would certainly have taken a tumble but then I wouldn’t have needed to go so slowly if it weren’t for the tit in the beemer and I would have seen the rocks in time to avoid them.
So thanks to a combination of the quarry’s inability to transport rocks without dumping them all over the road and the BMW driver’s inability to stop wanking for a second and dip his head lights I’m looking at a £50 haulage fee to the garage, another £50 for a new front tire (the old one was only 2 months old) and about £50 in labour.
All of this during a time when I’m on a seriously tight budget and have Christmas to contend with… bugger.
// November 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
Quite interesting really. A Guy in the US has been experimenting with “Traffic Waves” and his own ability to impact on congestion and free flow of traffic.
Of course it wouldn’t make the blindest bit of difference in Jersey, the only place in the world to put pedestrian crossings on either side of a roundabout 
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// November 28th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
Courtesy of the Register it looks like the hysteria over wifi is bubbling energetically.
I especially like their new name for such maddening people – Mast debaters … heh
?D
// November 27th, 2006 // No Comments » // Tech
I managed to get through today without polishing or posting any of my 4 drafts!
Consider tomorrow a bumper bonus day.
Nighty night.
// November 27th, 2006 // No Comments » // Tech
A gentoo based distro with the sentiment that Linux should just work – Link
// November 24th, 2006 // No Comments » // Personal
As promised yesterday I registered for a new dedicated server today.
11:05 – I started filling out the form online.
11:10 – I finished filling out the form (I’d gone for coffee in the mean time) and was informed that a sales rep would be phoning me within 15 minutes to confirm the order.
11:15 – Phone call from sales rep. Confirm my details and she confirms the order.
11:17 – e-mails confirming registration arrive promising activation of the server within 30 minutes.
11:32 – notification of server availability arrives and I’m instantly able to log on to the new box.
Less than 30 minutes from start to finish and I’m looking at a brand new box complete with OS, Control Panel, SSH, DNS and a load of other stuff.
And it’s fast too! Downloading the 872MB dedicated server client for a certain FPS took 4′23″ at an average speed of 3.55MB/S. I’m not sure how that’s possible as the pipe is meant to be capped at 1MB but I’m not complaining. With that kind of performance I could practically be hosting Microsoft.com 
I’m currently testing the DNS settings and migration path with rubicon.je. If that all goes smoothly then I’ll be ready to start migrating users sometime next week and should have everyone done before Christmas.
I can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner…
// November 24th, 2006 // No Comments » // Tech
Still very much in alpha but iCron could be very useful once it hits stable release – Link
