Scary ?

I was just hunting on the ever excellent www.whatis.com for the following definition:

http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci932596,00.html

In trying to find it, I mistyped my query like this:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/wsearchResults/1,290214,sid9,00.html?query=6+degress

Note the typo in "degrees"

Note also, the plethora of Sponsored Links for "universities" advertising "degrees"

"Yes please, we especially want the ones that can't even spell 'degrees' !"

Vision....

I have this vision of the inside of my computer when i play things.

I put a CD in the drive and four different applications all go "MINE !" and scramble madly to be the first to play it. Sadly, Real Player, the most resource hungry and nag happy invariably wins.

When I play a Windows Media File packaged in .asf format, the same thing happens, they all go "ME ! MINE ! GIMME !" except that this time WinAmp wins, displays it proudly in its playlist then says "Naaah, dunno what to do with that". Regardless, it steadfastly refuses to relinquish control to anything that might know how to play it.

The poor file associations must be like grey, henpecked husbands and wives, forever kidnapped backwards and forwards between the various apps each time they open. "Certain file types seems to be associated elsewhere. Would you like to restore these associations? Tick box to do this every time. TICK MY BOX ! TICK IT PLEEEEEASE !"

Do you know what I mean?

old skool fun

20 years of outgrowing Moores Law and what do we end up with?

Web pages with Java Applets that emulate ZX Spectrum games:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html

Hurrah!

Many, many wasted hours :)

puerility...

The dodo died
Then Dodi died
Di died then Dando died
Dido must be shitting herself...

Rather Useful Links #1

The same buddy then found

http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/

Which is truly useful - packaged downloads of older browsers that you can run without affecting any later versions on your system.

Nice!

Utterly Useless Links #9261

A buddy was looking for a version of IE5 for testing and stumbled across....

http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm

Anyone for IE2?

Or Netscape 1?

Not-So-Hot-Mail

Dear Hotmail,

I have one of your free email accounts.

I'm not proud of this but I thought it was necessary to get an MSN Messenger alias when I first signed up for that. I've since discovered that you can sign up for Passport with any old email address.

I also have a Yahoo account, which I use quite a lot. You could say it's my primary personal account.

A while back, those lovely people at Yahoo upgraded my service and I now get 100MB of storage space instead of the 6MB I used to get. This was great as it was often filling up and now just seems to sit at a nice steady 4% full (or 96% empty, depending on how you look at it I guess).

This was shortly followed by a veritable flurry of emails from you guys, claiming that you would be upgrading soon too and that I would be entitled to 250MB of storage space and all sorts of other goodies.

I read, I digested, I understood and I stored away the information. However, I have received this same email on an almost weekly basis since then.

This morning, you had the brazen cheek to email me and tell me I was running out of space!

a) All the space is taken up by your emails telling me I'm imminently about to get loads more space
b) The promised new space has not materialised, if it had...well...I think even you can work that out for yourself

Yours faithfully

Exasperated of East Barnet

Down on the farm...

So Tom and I got to chatting last night, as the day came to a close and we both became increasingly demotivated about the various projects we'd just spent another day slogging away on. We both work from home (not the same home, mind) and were talking about how nice it would be to have a shared-office type arrangement with a shed load of like minded people.

Tom says "perhaps we should each save up 10k or so and setup TechBARN (TM). Wouldn't it be great though to have a Barn full of Tech? Could cram in loads of companies and provide a room for their development servers, a cushion area for smoking weed and throwing around ideas and an accounts department for all of the companies. Leave the day to day shit to what would just be support services"

My response? "sounds like Cloud 9 mate"

Hence, Barn9 is born....when do we move in Tom?

All we need to do is "...scruff ourselves up so we look really geeky and see if we can get £200k off some dumb VC"

Potential location?