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?
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 :)
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[Originally from Engadget]
Funny Shaped Vegetables
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 able to pick up on RSS/Atom feeds automatically.
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]
Vista Solitaire
Yes Microsoft, just what we needed, a new version of "Solitaire" for Windows Vista. Perhaps you should have used all those developers to maybe, bring out a product with the features you said it would have.
John Barry : Themeology
Listening to John Barry’s best of album "Themeology" this morning reminds me just how influential his music has been on cinema. Having seen The Ipcress File on TV the other night, I just love his characteristic sound style. I guess it’s also because Derren Brown uses it as his theme tune to his TV series that I like it as well.
Puss filled purulent imbeciles
When we moved into our current house, I emailed the council and had our council tax account changed form the old house to the new. Great. They emailed back to confirm the address as it didn’t quite match what they had, but no matter, it was all sorted and I was assured the direct debit would just start up again in a month or so.
Foolish me for thinking they would do what they said they would.
Cut to me now 6 months on and my landlord emails saying he’s been asked to appear in court for non payment of council tax. He explained to them that we were the tenants, and why hadn’t they sent demands to us. Their answer: "we didn’t know where to send the bill". Now there is a large bill for council tax and (I can only imagine) a fast amount of sundry fees added by the council winging its way over.
Luckily for me, all this was conducted by email and letter, all of which I have copies of – I am going to have a calm little chat with them when they open on Tuesday…
Way to go Kensington & Chelsea Council.
Cunts.
Blogging Upgrade
Just upgraded to MT 3.2 – it looks prettier without a doubt, however only time will tell if its spam blocking is just as good as Jay Allan’s spam plugin (you’d hope it would be, given he now works for Six Apart).
Derren Brown – Pure Effect
This week, I shall be mostly reading Derren Brown’s "Pure Effect". Review to follow!
