Random Personal Picture Finder

Random Personal Picture Finder
Some smart guy has created a Random Personal Picture Finder, which makes random filenames using the prefixes used by popular digital cameras and adding a random number, then feeding this into Google Image Search. Quite amusing to see some of the weird stuff take pictures off (oh yes, and the occasional smutty pics too)

UPDATE helps if I add the link to it I suppose....

[Listening to: Kangaroo Musique - 07 Kangaroos Revenge ]

Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation
Parents arrived back at 3:25am. Brother got up for work, turning on all the lights at 4am. I got up for work at 6am. I'm tired.

[Listening to: Paul Oakenfold - Voyage Into Trance]

Teach yourself Chinese menus

Teach yourself Chinese menus
Found a very interesting guide to reading the Chinese only sections of menus in Chinese restaurants. IT won't teach you the whole language, but you'll get some more interesting meals out of it....

[Listening to: Man with no name - space juice ]

Castlevania

Castlevania
Some dude has made a Flash version of Castlevania

More eBay silliness

More eBay silliness
For sale - one inflatable church. Now you can make an honest woman out of your inflatable girlfriend....

Thanks to fark.com for that one

For sale - one aircraft carrier

For sale - one aircraft carrier
Anyone got $6.5M spare? You could buy an aircraft carrier

Delta Plus - the Weebl remix

Delta Plus - the Weebl remix
Weebl, creator of Weebl and Bob and those bizarre animated cows from the Anchor Spreadable ads has also done a remix of the old C64 Delta+ tune. You can get the MP3 here

[Listening to: Weebl - DeltaPlus]

eBay silliness

eBay silliness
In a long series of people selling any old stuff on eBay, here's another amusing example

[Listening to: Yahel - Butterfly ]

Words may come back to haunt you

Words may come back to haunt you
Be careful what you say in chatrooms - somebody might quote you

[Listening to: System F - Exhale ]

Linux user group meeting

Linux user group meeting
Went to the Lonix meeting last night, and learned a few useful tips, as well as sampling a couple of pints of the pubs fine oyster stout. Yum!

[Listening to: Hyperlogic - Only Me]

Why spam is good (sometimes)

Why spam is good (sometimes)
I have this love-hate relationship with spam, in a strange sort of way. I hate that they send me this junk, and have a bunch of stuff setup to deal with it for me. However, on the other hand, its nice to get at least one piece of spam when I log in the morning - it proves my email setup is still working!

[Listening to: underfoot - Clarity of Vision]

Company sues Apple and Microsoft for patent infringement

Company sues Apple and Microsoft for patent infringement
While there's a part of me that has no sympathy for Apple or Microsoft when it comes to software patents (which are the biggest abomination ever to come from lawyers), I have even less sympathy for companies like BTG Plc., the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the two aforementioned companies. BTG's core business is snapping up emerging technologies and patenting them, so that they can sue people later down the line. Morally reprehensible, unnecessary and completely pointless.

BTG are suing for infringement on their patent on web-enabled software updates (think Windows Update). They never came up with the idea, they never wrote any code to implement it. Therefore, they just STFU

[Listening to: Skazi feat. Isabelle - Revolution]

Birth of the iPod

Birth of the iPod
Wired is carrying an interesting article on the birth of the iPod. The best bit is the guy who left the project just before the end :-

Knauss stayed on until near the end of the iPod's development, but quit shortly before it was released because he had no confidence it would be a success.

"It was probably a mistake, but then you have to go with what you think at the time," he said.

[Listening to: Melicia vs. Psydrop - Massive Trance]

Want poppadoms with that?

Want poppadoms with that?
I dread to think what's on the menu at this restaurant

Killer mobile phone calls

Killer mobile phone calls
The BBC is reporting on the rumour of "killer phone calls" in Nigeria. Maybe its people disgruntled with 419 scams getting some payback....

New site feature

New site feature
Added a new feature to the menus on the left side of this site. As well as seeing my "Listening to" entries to see what I was listenging to when I wrote a blog entry, you can now see my current playlist of files.

[Listening to: Nissimyani Vs The Melovskys - Fir Cough]

New tunes

New tunes
Had a bit of a shopping spree at Chaos Unlimited, purveyors of the finest psychedlic trance, and picked up the follwing new albums :-

• Various - Red (TIP World)


• Quantum - Outrage (BNE)


• Various - Doppler FX (Alchemy)


• Various - Raveoultion Reloaded (Phonokol)


• Various - Usual Suspects Vol. 2 (Solstice World)

[Listening to: Various Artists - Broken Toy - Creature Of Da Wheel ]

Fast Psychedelia,direct to your door

Fast Psychedelia,direct to your door
I don't often endorse products or companies, but Chaos Unlimited excelled themselves with excellent customer service, so I want to give them a mention. I ordered a psychedelic trance CD from them around 3PM yesterday afternoon, and it arrived the following morning, along with a whole bunch of free stickers and flyers, and a full printed copy of their current catalogue. It just shows that the little companies care more about the customer than they big ones

[Listening to: 1200 Mic's - Mescaline (Live On Mount Fuji Remix) ]

Rock, Paper, Saddam

Rock, Paper, Saddam
Check out Rock, Paper, Saddam, its quite amusing. Thanks to Aaron for bringing that one to my attention.

More mini portraits
From the makers of the mini face picture maker I mentioned in an earlier post, comes a full body version

[Listening to: Artifakt - Mass ]

Turning the tables on 419 scam emailers
Finally, someone is playing those Nigerian email scammers at their own game

[Listening to: Jogeir - Mystified ]

Weekend in Cornwall
Had a nice long weekend down in St Agnes, Cornwall, where my godmother has a bed and breakfast. Spent my birthday down there, which was nice. Just a shame I had to come back to work today :-(

Its like a computer, only smaller - Part 2
I'm looking to set up my new Epia Mini ITX box as a little media server now, so I've been looking at Freepia. Its a linux distro aimed at doing exactly this job on exactly this hardware, so it save me the job of having to build and customize a Linux distribution to do this. Just as well really, as I was struggling to build Gentoo last night without a network connection. They claim you can do this from the LiveCD, but it seems unable to find a vital component - an installable kernel! Besides, I'm not totally sure, but I think Freepia might be Gentoo based anyway...

A better RSS News Aggregator
I had been previously using NewsGator for my RSS aggregation needs, but there were a few things I didn't like about it, so I started looking for a replacement and discovered SharpReader, which seems cleaner, more configurable, and more user friendly. Give it a try if you're still using Windows (like I have to at work)

Firefox 0.9.1 bugfix
Little bug in firefox when opening URLs from the Run... dialog (and other places) due to how Firefox registers itself as the default browser. There's a little fix right here

iPods a security risk?
ZDNet has an article about a recent Gartner report (them again? haven't they got any real work to do?) that suggests iPods should be banned in the workplace cos people can steal important corporate data and store it on the iPod's internal hard drive. Well, I'm still using mine for MP3s and backing up my laptop - I'm not wasting valuable HD space on work stuff....

Gentoo on an EPIA-M Howto
This link is for my reference (and for anyone else that wants to run Gentoo on an Mini-ITX box.

[Listening to: FMS17 Jordy van Kouwen - Full Moon Session 14 september 2003 ]

Dude, you've got Gmail!
I got an invite to have a Gmail account, and I didn't even realise it. Gonna play with it for a while and see what I think of it.

[Listening to: Fire And Ice - Lost emotions (2001 remix) ]

Its like a computer, only smaller
Respect to Dan, who managed to get my Mini-ITX computer to work this weekend. Also respect to him for the large bottle of Jack Daniels he gave me for my birthday ;-)

Ignore this post!
I'm testing stuff, ignore me

New Gentoo-based Distro
One of a new breed of Linux distributions to be based on Gentoo, take a look at VidaLinux, which claims to be aiming for ease of use.

[Listening to: tillmann uhrmacher - on the run ]

There's gold in them thar hills!
Go play Gold Miner and quit bugging me, ya varmints!

[Listening to: orange inc - dont bring me down ]

Mono 1.0 update
Well I'm ok, cos I got Mono 1.0 from Gentoo portage on my laptop, but for those of you struggling with the download server, I have mirrored Mono 1.0 Windows version(13.5mb) for a short while. If it gets hammered, I might need to take it down again, cos I get charged for excess bandwidth.

Mono 1.0 is here!
Mono 1.0 has finally arrived! No more beta versions, baby, this is the real deal! Be prepared to wait in the queue for a while though, the servers are pretty busy. Download page.