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November 30, 2004

oldskool? we still play in the garage with pots and pans

Not that it could possibly affect us (we never upgraded to a version of MT that was supported) but if you have MT-Blacklist installed be aware that you could accidently delete one more blog than you mean to.

Critical bug: Don’t delete weblogs!
Consumer Product Warning: MT-Blacklist

(Also, if we had installed it then the comments might still work. Comment spam is difficult to fight by hand…)

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November 29, 2004

“once, twice, five times a sick boy”

Saturday was spent in Reading celebrating Ben’s 25th.

Sunday was spent in bed / on the sofa suffering.

There’s a lesson there somewhere…

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November 24, 2004

stalk-tastic!

SMOKING WOMEN ARE SEXY!

“I am a non smoking teenager trying to get to grips with my smoking fetish. A woman dragging deep on her cigarette is so incredibly sexy and this blog is for me to try to work out why.”

How to combine passive-smoking and a camera phone to create a single-subject blog. Wouldn’t be surprised if sponsorship from Nokia followed…

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Posted 5:27 pm by Wrighty — Comments (0)

when I grow up, I want to validate

Dude. That’s some tattoo…

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Posted 1:41 pm by Wrighty — Comments (0)

>> TRACKING <<

Bootchart – Boot Process Performance Visualization is a set of scripts and a Java application to profile the boot process on Linux systems. And for a change, the output looks great. It helped the creator reduce the boot time on his laptop from 1:23 to just 43 seconds.

Wonder if this could help my Cube at work when booting?

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Posted 11:37 am by Wrighty — Comments (0)

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November 15, 2004

I’m a rock. It. Man.

legendary 1978 performance by William Shatner of Rocket Man

(Via MeFi)

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November 10, 2004

the stranger and the dude

After having a flickr account for a while now I’ve finally got round to posting my first picture on it. What better to upload than a photo of a printout of a computer generated pdf of a widelux camera photo?

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“dare to be stupid” in the eyes of the “Weird Al” fan base

I Must Take Issue With The Wikipedia Entry For ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

“I remained silent in regard to those smaller matters, but I cannot ignore the travesty you call a copyleft encyclopedia article on “Weird Al.” Those who know me either by reputation or through IRC know that I do not suffer fools gladly. If you have been on the business end of one of my notorious outbursts of Internet anger, I do sympathize. And, for what is to come forthwith, I offer you my grim condolence. En garde.

To start: Your entry for “Weird Al” is laughably brief, and fails to account for the grand impact and scope of his career. How can you justify a “Weird Al” biography of only a paltry 850 words?

Particularly galling to this author is the fact that Madonna and U2 were given articles two and three times the length of the Weird One’s. Yes, those artists may have sold more records than “Weird Al,” but surely the Wikipedia community is not one to confuse net profits with artistic merit.”

Another great column from The Onion that highlights the problems I have with Wikipedia and Wiki-fiddlers.

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November 9, 2004

one-point-oh

Firefox 1.0 has been officially released and if you haven’t tried it yet then you should really give it a go for a couple of days. Yes, that includes you over there clutching your copy of Safari.

(Personally I liked it better when they still played in their garage and hadn’t sold out yet.)

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Posted 8:14 pm by Wrighty — Comments (0)

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November 5, 2004

same old, same old

After the highs, the lows and the lack of sleep on Tuesday night / Wednesday morning the result was something of an anti-climax. However this map generated on county-by-county results makes a much more interesting image than the much-shown red-with-blue-edges state-by-state map. (Also there’s a 2000 result map)

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