geek@work

I was a victim of a drive by download of malware

2008-01-29T22:00:00.000+13:00

I suddenly started getting IE popping up trying to connect to suspicious sites as I don't use it it was blocked by my firewall luckily.Then my desktop was replaced with a webpage as a background, I tracked that down but it kept on being replaced on reboot, virus scanner, spybot, and adaware found nothing so i knew I was in for a fun evening.I finally got to use system internals cool little

I'm back

2008-01-29T21:54:00.000+13:00

My blog was at my domain but I just ran out of time and some shitty little script kiddy hacked it a while back.Last year was pretty hectic what with buying a new house and car, and starting a new job.Not doing as much Java now, but using C# to quickly throw together small applications and working in Progress for our main business application along with lots of SQL.

Fingers Crossed...

2004-05-19T16:41:00.000+12:00

The blog is up @ www.geekatwork.net/blog or even blog.geekatwork.net when the subdomain kicks in.

Coming Soon To A Monitor Near You

2004-05-13T09:33:00.000+12:00

I have just bought the domain name www.geekatwork.net and have secured hosting as well, give me a few weeks to get it all set up and I'll be back blogging.

Overtime Overload

2004-03-05T22:50:00.000+13:00

Blogging is temporarily put on hold whilst I complete a project in three weeks that is estimated at five weeks work ...I thrive under pressure but everything else gets put on the back burner...I'll be back in April...

A Darwin Award Candidate...

2004-02-25T10:15:00.000+13:00

A 43-year-old man tossed a rope into the path of a freight train, apparently on a lark, and was killed after becoming entangled in the rope and being dragged by the train, authorities said.continue... heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Blind leading the blind...

2004-02-24T09:54:00.000+13:00

At the New Zealand Wireless Data Forum’s Convergence conference in Auckland in October a virus-infected laptop broadcast the Welcha worm over the conference’s wireless LAN. read the rest... heads up from IDG mailing list

Fuck the Beigists...

2004-02-24T09:28:00.000+13:00

Went to see Billy Connelly last night...he's fuckin brilliant on stage but tends to get easily distracted and veer of down different paths...several times he had to ask the audience what he was talking about before he detoured...makes for great entertainment...I still don't know what happened in his sex scene with Sharon Stone...he had so many jokes and funny stories, but one that will spring to

Balls...

2004-02-18T10:25:00.000+13:00

Now that I've got your attention have a play with these balls, some of the combinations almost make me sick. heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

It's been a bit wet round here lately...

2004-02-18T09:42:00.000+13:00

A month ago we parked our car under this bridge in the shade while we went for a swim, the bottom of the bridge was at least twenty feet above the car roof at the time. Amazingly this shipping container managed to pass through the floodgates without causing any damage, somehow I don't think it made it past this bridge.

LOL...

2004-02-17T09:30:00.000+13:00

Q: You are sitting behind the wheel in a car keeping a constant speed, on your left side there is an abyss. On your right side you have a fire engine and it keeps the same speed as you. In front of you runs a pig, larger than your car. A helicopter is following you, at ground level. Both the helicopter and the pig are keeping the same speed as you. What will you need to do to

Geek love poem...

2004-02-11T09:52:00.000+13:00

Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF chown -R you ~/base (roses are red, violets are blue, all my base are belong to you) Just in time for Valentines Day. stolen from Tam I Am

Why your Movable Type blog must die...

2004-02-04T11:29:00.000+13:00

In the past, blogging was an interesting pastime. Now, with the advent of the ridiculously popular weblog package Movable Type, the Web is in risk of drowning under a tidal wave of morons who throttle search engines with writing that has no purpose and such PageRank-destroying features as "TrackBack". I was considering MT for when I have my domain name and hosting sorted out, but after this post

Shit...

2004-02-03T11:09:00.000+13:00

The most functional word... Well, it's shit...that's right, shit! Shit may just be the most functional word in the English language. Consider: You can get shit-faced, Be shit out of luck, or have shit for brains. With a little effort, you can get your shit together, Find a place for your shit, Or, be asked to shit or get off the pot. You can smoke shit, buy shit, sell shit, lose shit, find shit,

ROFL...

2004-02-01T22:24:00.000+13:00

I wonder if you could fart on the transporter, then jump off and beam it somewhere in the ship? I would get so fired from the Enterprise. I'd be going up to the food-maker thingy in the mess hall saying "Turd, brown, steaming" and then just leave it there for the next person who comes along. And don't get me started on the holo deck...or should I say, 'hole-o-deck'...boy, they'd be mopping

Geek humour...

2004-02-01T21:32:00.000+13:00

Recently, ThinkGeek started selling HTTPanties — a set of panties with either '200 OK' or '403 Forbidden' emblazoned across the front. Cute idea. CodePoetry decided this wasn't enough, though… 300 Multiple Choices for the creative. 301 Moved Permanently for the formerly-masculine. 305 Use Proxy for the adventurer. 307 Temporary Redirect for various reasons. 401 Unauthorized for the stranger

Johnny-Light Toilet Bowl Night Light...

2004-02-01T21:12:00.000+13:00

* Lights toilet bowl at night when the toilet seat is raised and goes off when the toilet seat goes down * Ends the bathroom battle of the sexes * Aids in children's toilet training (Great New Use - See testimonials) * Reminds us to put the toilet seat down * Eliminates annoying "fall-ins" * No more toilet seat splash I think it's of more use to all the pissed people for whom a normal

Apple G5 Converted to A PC...

2004-02-01T21:10:00.000+13:00

tf23 writes "Oh the horror! Overclockers.com has an article about someone who's replaced his brand new G5's innards with an Athlon PC. Apparently he didn't want his parents, who gave him the new G5, to be upset that he didn't want it. So he ripped out the internals (digusting, that is) and now has a green glowing Athlon in the shiney G5's case." All I can say is "to each his own." All the Apple

Not that I've got anything against penguins...

2004-01-29T10:55:00.000+13:00

Run over the penguins and help the yeti jump the crevasses...lately there seems to be a plethora (slipped in a big word) of games that involve violence against penguins...or am I just imagining it...

It's really cold on Mars...

2004-01-28T13:40:00.000+13:00

Compiled from NASA and terrestrial weather reports: Temperature at 1 p.m., Jan. 14 Location Fahrenheit ------------------------- ---------- Gusev crater, Mars 12 Providence, R.I. 9 Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 8 Hartford, Conn. 7 Buffalo, N.Y. 7 Rochester, N.Y. 3 Ithaca, N.Y. 3

Some small diversions...

2004-01-25T13:35:00.000+13:00

Smack the pengu...fun for a while...good lesson in penguin aerodynamics...they don't have any but they slide good...I managed to get 593.5... can you beat that... This was so much fun as a kid...now it's a race between me and my kids as to who gets to it first... heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Whoooot...

2004-01-21T09:12:00.000+13:00

I should pass the 5,000 visitors mark today...when I started this blog I never dreamed I'd have that many visitors in a year let alone less than four months...even if most of them are relating to that spyware/malware post...I have a lot of links to post...just need to find time now...

Blogspeak is no more...

2004-01-17T17:43:00.000+13:00

I received this email moments ago...This message is being sent from the HaloScan commenting service to all Blogspeak users due to some recent developments at Blogspeak. Please do not delete this email as it contains your new HaloScan username and password through which you can access all your imported Blogspeak comments (toward the bottom of this email). Harry from Blogspeak requested that this

Very Punny...

2004-01-15T12:36:00.000+13:00

1. Two vultures board an airplane; each is carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger." 2. Two boll weevils grew up in the deep South. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser

Another one of those days...

2004-01-13T22:57:00.000+13:00

Looks like my comments have gone AWOL again...but at least I'm now a Flippery Fish in the TTLB Ecosystem...keep those links coming... It's getting harder to find time to blog this year...I didn't even look at my blog until tonight...work is getting busier again...currently writing a Java app to manipulate Word documents...it costs to much to be tied into Microsoft for a company of our size so we

Javascript toggle thingee code...

2004-01-13T22:28:00.000+13:00

I've seen this around on other sites but have never got around to copying it...(show/hide) Testing...1.2.3.is it working for you Well that didn't exactly work...bugga...I'll have to come back to that... heads up from Eclectisism

Link-O-Rama

2004-01-07T23:52:00.000+13:00

This will make you piss yourself laughing...you'll get it... Wish I could drive like this...I know people that drive like this accidentally... Telemarketers getting annoying...I always hang up on them and then remember this script... Good for replying to Nigerian spammers...personally I like the Swedish Chef... Cool zip code decoder...wonder if you could tie it into this somehow...

Back to the grindstone...

2004-01-05T10:44:00.000+13:00

Time to engage my brain again after sixteen days of Xmas pressies, sun, copious amounts of food (wife's family love their food), sun, days at the river, sun, Internet withdrawal...straight into finishing a C# app... taking me all morning just to read my notes and work out what I was doing before I went on holiday...apparently I was trying to use late binding for Word so that it didn't matter what

There is always one in every crowd...

2003-12-28T00:01:00.000+13:00

This arsehole person has stolen used my post and done minor changes and posted it as their own...fuckin wanker...I know they copied it because my post was made up of bits from multiple posts on forums that I found and from my own search on my computers registry...it was also posted three days before their post...I posted a comment to his post...since he seems to be the owner/moderator of the site

Xmas humor...

2003-12-26T13:00:00.000+13:00

This QuickTime movie is well made and well worth the wait for the download, don't let the kids see it though, it may traumatise them about Xmas. heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Geek humor...

2003-12-26T12:56:00.000+13:00

If you can read this of the top of your head then you are the type they want, otherwise here's some help. heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Hahahahaha...

2003-12-24T21:12:00.000+13:00

Although content in his job, Nigel could never tell his mates what he did. Christmas brought to Iraq by force. Texas housewife busted for hawking erotic toys. Come all ye faithful. The Geek hierarchy. Queer Eye For the Straight Guy. Gillette Mach3. Fun online games... Fishin ain't so bad.

How good are your typing skills...

2003-12-24T21:09:00.000+13:00

As a one fingered typist I scored a pathetic 75 on my one and only attempt at this, it shouldn't be hard to beat that.

The 12 Days of Christmas Price Index...

2003-12-24T21:07:00.000+13:00

The PNC Bank gets right into the spirit of Christmas with its 12 Days of Christmas Price IndexIndeed, the cost of the five gold rings dropped by 5.6 percent, and the pear tree is down a full 28.6 percent from last year. However, these discounts were offset by the dancers, pipers and drummers who have seen significant increases in the cost of their services over 2002.

Piss take of the day...

2003-12-24T21:01:00.000+13:00

Send Them Back!! Right back to the Recording Industry of America Association, the industry association that helps our favorite artists keep on making the music we love. #1 Email 'em 1. Look up the email address of your regional RIAA authority (listed in your white pages under "Recording Industry: Regional Authorities. 2. Open up your email program, such as Microsoft Outlook™ or Microsoft

The Ant and the Grasshopper

2003-12-19T22:32:00.000+13:00

The classic version The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs, dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.The modern New Zealand version The ant works hard in the

Good one dork...

2003-12-17T22:46:00.000+13:00

Nothing much on Tv tonight so I settled down to watch the final of Average Joe...I'm not an avid watcher but it was better than the rest of the crap...about 3/4 of an hour into the 2 hour show a voice over comes on..."since this programme was filmed Melana and Jason seperated on the way to their dream holiday"...thanks a lot arsehole...how hard is it to push a button at the right time...since my

ROFL...

2003-12-17T11:09:00.000+13:00

CUAgain : Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street)Now picture the large man on the huge black and chrome cruiser, dressed in jeans, a very ragged torn t-shirt, and wearing one leather glove, roaring at probably 80mph, still on one wheel, with a large puffy squirrel’s tail sticking out his mostly closed full-face helmet. By now the screams are probably getting a little

When is the last time you heard a politician say:

2003-12-17T10:59:00.000+13:00

"Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors." ...never heard anything like that in my lifetime... heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

So Your Daughter Wants a Boob Job...

2003-12-17T10:48:00.000+13:00

How quickly the time passes! It seems like just yesterday that you were bouncing her on your knee. Now, instead of Barbie dolls, she's asking for breast augmentation surgery. Like every father, you're surely full of questions. Hopefully we can provide a few answers. Isn't this just some kind of peer pressure thing like piercings and tattoos? Of course it is. And your daughter's popularity

Up Yours...

2003-12-17T10:42:00.000+13:00

Excellent, wonder if we'll get these new signs...What the city probably didn't count on was that the new crosswalk signs could be so easily turned into an upturned middle finger with the help of a few stickers.heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Nearly the end of the week...

2003-12-12T11:58:00.000+13:00

B_lord: these dumbasses r teaching octal numbering B_lord: WHHHYYYYYY???? 64978312: in case theirs any octopuses in the class B_lord: or octopussies 64978312: or people with no thumbs B_lord: or octopi 64978312: mmmmmmmmmm octopussy B_lord: and no toes 64978312: or spiders B_lord: octopussy is either something to do with a collection of 8 cats, or its some sort of anatomy lesson I really wanna

Make up your mind...

2003-12-11T18:32:00.000+13:00

THEN: "We've had differences and they're over, and we're going to work together." - President Bush on mending fences with European countries like Germany, 9/24/03 NOW: Bush Administration announced it "will bar companies from France, Germany, Russia and other countries that opposed the war in Iraq from bidding on $18.6 billion in prime contracts for reconstruction of the country." - LA Times,

My first ever 419...

2003-12-11T18:00:00.000+13:00

This could be fun...along the lines of 419 EaterAttn.: Sir/Madam, Let me introduce myself. I am Senator DAVID BRIGIDI, Chairman senate committee on petroleum federal republic of Nigeria. My colleagues and I just concluded a crude oil business here at the bonny terminal that worth $25 Million dollars .... any expenses both parties might incurred during the process of this transaction. I look

Americans...nuff said

2003-12-11T17:49:00.000+13:00

Tourists dream of hunting haggis...and when they come down here they think the Moa was so named because it ate grass... heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Cooool...

2003-12-11T17:46:00.000+13:00

The Northern Lights are from another world...the photo in the cave reminds me of my Grandfather who used to do a lot of caving and had a photo of a lit up cave complete with gigantic stalactites and stalagmites... he said it took him and his partner half an hour to walk around the cave carrying a magnesium flare while the shutter was open on the camera...it made for an awesome photoheads up from

Twisted Web they've woven

2003-12-11T17:38:00.000+13:00

Seach-this has an interesting Flash movie that shows how all the major search engines are connected by ownership. It also shows who sends and/or receives search results paid or otherwise.heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

JOTD

2003-12-11T17:17:00.000+13:00

Two families move from Pakistan to Australia. When they arrive the two fathers make a bet. In a year's time whichever family has become more Australian will win. A year later they meet again: The first man says, "My son is playing AFL, I had a meat pie with sauce for breakfast and I'm on my way to pick up a case of VB, how about you? "The second man replies, "Fuck off towelhead."

Long time...

2003-12-09T14:04:00.001+13:00

I had forgotten I was on Borzou Daragahi's mailing list...he hadn't sent out an email in nearly four months...I started getting his emails before I found all the Iraqi bloggers and even before the war...I think if he had a blog his readership would increase dramaticallyI was nervous upon arriving at Chicago's O'Hare airport. I hadn't been in the good ol' United States of America in more than a

Linkorama...

2003-12-09T14:04:00.000+13:00

Sick of Xmas already...then Holiday Snowglobe is for you...gotta love the soundsMy favorite Net things...well worth the waitGoing for the gold at the Trojan Games...check out the video highlights...[Possibly offensive]New York Defender...the French having a dig at USA?...check out the rest of Albino Black SheepDo not watch this RGB Flash if you're an epilectic...about 30 seconds is my limitheads

Why We Should Switch to Hexadecimal...

2003-12-09T10:30:00.000+13:00

Intuitor Hexadecimal Headquarters is about as geeky as it gets...Hex Headquarters is the home of the hex clock and is dedicated to changing the base-ten paradigm to a new standard: hexadecimal. This includes switching to hexadecimal numbers and hexadecimal time.personally I think they've got as much chance as pushing shit uphill with a rubber forkheads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Has the arse fallen out of your Google Page Rank?

2003-12-08T16:17:00.000+13:00

I know mine has...it fell from 6/10 to 4/10...this article Been Gazumped by Google? Trying to make Sense of the "Florida" Update! seems to provide a logical reason for Googles actions...Google has seen their search engine results manipulated by SEOs to a significant extent over the past few years. Their reliance on PageRankâ„¢ to grade the authority of pages has led to the wholesale trading and

Google bombing

2003-12-08T15:34:00.000+13:00

We've all seen the "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google searches for 'french military victories' and 'weapons of mass destruction'...well now there's a new one 'miserable failure' it's even gotten a write up at Newsday.com...A search for the phrase "miserable failure" on the popular search engine Google brings up the biography of George W. Bush on the official White House Web site, in one of the more

Bugga...

2003-12-08T15:11:00.000+13:00

I use IE to manage cookies on my work computer and by default I tell it to ignore all cookies from a site unless it's somewhere I need to login...I went to enable cookies for a site that needed cookies to function correctly...I clicked the wrong button and deleted all the settings for sites I had visited...now every time I go to a site I have to go through the whole accept/deny rigmarole again...

Guest Map...

2003-12-08T14:54:00.000+13:00

Finally got around to adding a Guest Map...better hurry it only holds 100...now I can see how many people actually read as opposed to visit...

Hits going exponential...

2003-12-05T08:57:00.000+13:00

Ever since I did the 'Have your taskbar and desktop icons disappeared?? At every boot, the desktop is empty ... ' post my hits have gone through the roof (compared to what I was getting anyway)...it seems that this program causing the problems is getting more widespread around Europe as most of my search referrals are originating from there everywhere...I see that Symantec has finally caught up

Yet another time waster...

2003-12-02T18:07:00.000+13:00

Run and jump...run and jump...save the potato...

Another game...

2003-12-02T16:39:00.000+13:00

Flip Flap is an easy way to waste an hour or three...

Xmas fun...

2003-12-02T16:34:00.000+13:00

The 12 STIs Of Christmas is definitely not work safe or suitable for small children, but funny nevertheless. heads up from The Adventures of a Snowball in Hell

Weasel Awards Poll Results...

2003-12-02T14:42:00.000+13:00

The second annual exuberantly non-scientific Weasel Poll results are in. 35,874 people voted. The winners are... No surprises in that lot...still good to see other people feel the same.

Have your taskbar and desktop icons disappeared?? At every boot, the desktop is empty ...

2003-12-02T13:55:00.000+13:00

I noticed this little program box that just said "it's time" with the title "Project 1" and since it was late Friday and I was leaving in a minute I thought I'd track it down on Monday. Big mistake! This trojan/spyware/adware appears to be too new for AV and Spyware/Adware removers to find. After scouring forums here is a list of steps, some or all may apply to your computer. 1) end the

LOTR fever

2003-12-01T23:41:00.000+13:00

The premier has finished and Wellington can return to normal...normal for Wellington anyway...on Saturday me and K were in Wellington for a wedding and decided to get in some last minute shopping as well...we walked out of a shop to see a man obviously posing with two fans whilst his minder took a photo... we overheard the fans say how much they enjoyed the other LOTR films so we assumed he was

World's Greatest Inventions...

2003-11-28T15:11:00.000+13:00

the manly smell of a pipe has started a new series of posts of the World's Greatest Inventions...World's Greatest Inventions #1 - The Arse World's Worst Inventions #1 - The Testiclesobviously this man has to much spare time on his hands...and so do the people commenting

Want to play with fire...

2003-11-28T10:52:00.000+13:00

Did you ever wonder what it was like for the ants when you burnt them with a magnifying glass?

Another old game

2003-11-28T10:29:00.000+13:00

Play the original Space Invaders on your PC...

Can you hackit...

2003-11-28T09:28:00.000+13:00

How good is your webskills/hacking/coding...this site will either give you headaches or show how much you know...On this website you have the opportunity to improve your knowledge about internet security LEGALLY. For instance simple JavaScript is unsuitable for protecting your homepage against unauthorized access. But there are still some other things. ISATCIS will clarify it within a learning

ROFL...

2003-11-27T15:38:00.000+13:00

All the old games are making a comeback...the other day we had Zork and Breakout...today we have Pong This is so funny I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes a I bash the keys.

On sale now at Ebay...

2003-11-27T15:36:00.000+13:00

Australian Rugby Union trophy cabinetAustralian Rugby Union trophy cabinet, no longer required due to lack of use in forseeable future. Strained shelves due to years of overuse mean this trophy cupboard should be used with caution, therefore would be ideal for any Scottish team (except curling). Slight damage to surface area resulting from Eddie Jones' tears, otherwise in pristine condition. Must

Deja Vu...

2003-11-25T19:21:00.000+13:00

Rare Infection Threatens to Spread in Blood SupplyA parasitic infection common in Latin America is threatening the United States blood supply, public health experts say. They are especially concerned because there will be no test for it in donated blood until next year at the earliest.we had a similar situation in New Zealand a few years back, there was no government approved test for Hepatitas C

Come back 'peeing' person...

2003-11-25T19:13:00.000+13:00

This flash movie would appeal to the 'peeing' searcher...she's definitely had a Brazilianheads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Custom 404 and DNS error pages...

2003-11-25T18:53:00.000+13:00

... 404 Error: Now what??? ...Welcome to Zork. This version created 11-MAR-91 (PHP mod 25-OCT-2001) There are 8 users playing Zork. You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. >about Well, it all started because I was bored, like many things do, and I decided that it would be really cool if people were to end up at my 404 error

Traumatic Events in the Life of a Lego Fan...

2003-11-25T18:38:00.000+13:00

As a long time fan of Lego this struck a chord with me...my two angels play with Lego...cleverly disguised as 'Girls Stuff' complete with fairies, kittens, babies...last time I played with Lego it was making giant cars and smashing them into each other1949 Dear Lego Bricks! You’ve gone and totally changed your product focus, and rendered my collection of wooden and plastic non-brick toys obsolete

Hacker Warez..

2003-11-25T18:35:00.000+13:00

So which are you?...White or Black Hat?If you fancy yourself a grey hat, we are afraid you'll simply have to get one black and one white and wear the appropriate color hat for the appropriate occasion.For the geek who has everything...or nothing heads up from Nev Dull mailing list

Engines for geeks...

2003-11-25T18:15:00.000+13:00

The site claims it's the most powerful diesel engine in the world...certainly big enough to qualifySome facts on the 14 cylinder version: Total engine weight:2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.) Length:89 feet Height:44 feet Maximum power:108,920 hp at 102 rpm Maximum torque:5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpmsome thing for the petroldieselheads to drool over as well. heads up from Nev Dull

Sick of Spam?

2003-11-25T13:57:00.000+13:00

Another way to fill in waste time at work...Let out your anger on SPAMWARS, a Flash game that pits you against the evil Sid the Spammer in the ultimate spam battle! heads up from Kiwi Pete

Hidden Dangers of Blogging...

2003-11-24T17:39:00.000+13:00

Mom Finds Out About BlogIn an e-mail sent to Widmar Monday, Lillian reported in large purple letters that she was "VERY EXCITED :)!!!" to find his "computer diary," but was perplexed that he hadn't mentioned it to her.

Bloggrolling is back...but RSS feed is brokenfixed

2003-11-24T17:24:00.000+13:00

They're finally back at BlogRolling, now I can add some of the sites of found in the last week, still not sure what happened to them. The RSS feeds provided by Wytheville Community College that I was testing have been discontinued, now I'll have to start over again fixed.

Whats happened to Salam Pax...

2003-11-24T17:22:00.000+13:00

I'm beginning to think that Where is Raed ? has been hacked, either that or he is blogging drunk, nothing seems to make sense for the last few posts. Updated...Seems like I'm not the only one that noticed he's acting strange lately.

Google calculator

2003-11-24T15:17:00.000+13:00

Google has added a calculator and a definitions to their range of tools...To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results. heads up from Generic Geek

Are you a Geek...

2003-11-24T14:47:00.000+13:00

Test your digital IQ...what score did you get... I got 120...not bad considering up until 4 years ago I drove a truck for a living and hadn't used a computer since 1983. heads up from Generic Geek

Searching...

2003-11-24T10:40:00.000+13:00

I don't know what's happening with the search engines recently but suddenly more than half my referrals are from search engines now (23 out of the last 40). Someone was desperately searching for peeing, I was 188th on the results so they must have been really interested to go that far down the results.

Fun time

2003-11-18T14:21:00.000+13:00

Make-a-Flake - A snowflake maker Slap That Ho! ROFL...NEUROTICALLY YOURS CARTOON: FOAMY'S RANT heads up from It's Craptacular

Dear new neighbor

2003-11-18T13:58:00.000+13:00

I'm glad I don't have Judi's neighbour...The handicapped parking space out front of my house is mainly for use by myself, my stepdaughter with spina bifida, and anyone else who has a legal handicap~complete with the blue sign or sticker. Your afternoon fuck~buddy, while he may be ugly, retarded and illiterate, does not qualify to be labeled handicapped. ...I wouldn't like to get on Judi's bad

Find of the week

2003-11-18T11:25:00.000+13:00

Have a day or three to kill, then try The Ultimate Insult - Celebrating Three Years of Wasted Time. Now I remember where I found some of my recent posts.

Amazing what you can do with MS Paint and Flash

2003-11-18T11:20:00.000+13:00

The end of the world

What Matrix character are you?

2003-11-18T11:16:00.000+13:00

You are Neo, from "The Matrix." Youdisplay a perfect fusion of heroism andcompassion. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to you by Quizilla I don't know about the 'failure is not an option for you' bit, some days I just don't give a shit.

Start your own holy war!

2003-11-18T11:05:00.000+13:00

Some one has a lot of spare time on their hands from the looks of this site, I see they are up for an award, and so they should be.

Lotsa links

2003-11-18T10:56:00.000+13:00

Found a new daily cartoon via wild-heart.net, to quote her "It's like Far Side on crack! New Game for Xmas, Spank the Frank, helps relieve the boredom in the office. Do you know who Moebius was, I only know about him because of a science fiction/horror book I read. Here's a great game based on his strip to get your brain working...Moebius Syndrome Have fun building signs for the office at

Searches that found me...strange

2003-11-18T09:42:00.000+13:00

maxwell equations tee shirt rhinocerus +tutorials Geek Eroticism funny baby tee shirts nz "mugshots.+com" dynamically created pdf

Have some fun...

2003-11-13T09:49:00.000+13:00

Five Finger Fillet...How good is your aim? Would you bet a pinky on it? More sick and twisted games here. heads up from I Love Bacon

Kids say the darndest things

2003-11-07T08:17:00.000+13:00

I arrived home from work last night and the first thing my youngest daughter said to me was, 'why have you got sparkles in your hair'. It took me a moment to realise she was talking about the grey in my hair. I keep my hair short and from a four year olds point of view it does look like silver sparkles... This is the same daughter that referred to a friend as 'the man with the hole in his hair',

All illusions, all the time

2003-11-05T16:01:00.000+13:00

http://persci.mit.edu/gaz/ http://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html http://www.ads-online.on.ca/illusion/directory.html http://www.allopticalillusions.com/ http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/illusion.htm http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/f_exhibits.html http://www.eyetricks.com/ http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Port/2701/illusions.htm http://www.grand-illusions.com

The Dangers of Blogging

2003-11-05T14:15:00.000+13:00

Be careful writing about your place of employment, this guy found out the hard way that some employers act like four year old children when criticised...Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you're no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus." And that simply, as of about 2pm today, I once again joined the ranks of the unemployed.

Should children witness childbirth?

2003-11-05T11:33:00.000+13:00

Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Katelyn, a 3-year-old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked. Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while Connor was born. The paramedic lifted him by

JOTD

2003-11-05T11:31:00.000+13:00

SUCCESS: At age 4 success is . . . not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . having friends. At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 20 success is . . . going all the way. At age 35 success is . . . having money. At age 50 success is . . . having money. At age 60 success is . . . going all the way. At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license. At

Matrix Reloaded

2003-11-05T11:17:00.000+13:00

Hi, I'm poly. OK. Having said that, and thereby having initially established the relevance of this message to this list, I'd like to do another poly thing: communicate. Specifically, I watched the film "Matrix Reloaded" this evening and wanted to share the following thoughts and feelings (sharing your feelings being another poly thing to do) which came up for me while watching it: * If the

Fuck fuck fuck

2003-10-27T11:22:00.000+13:00

My work laptop was stolen from home, at least my projects were backed up. None of my shortcuts or other reference material was though, I will be AWOL for at least a week while I get everything running on a spare PC.

Random links

2003-10-27T11:20:00.000+13:00

Do you like playing Minesweeper, this is written in JavaScript and looks identical to the desktop version. Fight Club warning. The Smokin Gun has some competition from MugShots.com, they both have this ugly fucker. George Hernandez has a lot of useful info on everything from databases to programming as well as an interesting blog. Trying to plan a colour scheme for your site, this page gives

Handy PHP hints that I've found the hard way

2003-10-24T22:50:00.000+13:00

I use a css.php file with variables populated from a config file for my style sheet, css.php //get constants include_once("config.php"); ?> a.headlinks { text-decoration: none; color: ; } no matter what I did I couldn't get the style sheets to work, until I found one line of code, header("Content-Type: text/css"); with this at the start of css.php it works

ROFL

2003-10-21T10:48:00.000+13:00

Engrish The Two Towers Captions...here's a sample... heads up from Alf For President