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2 October 2004
21:36:02
Looks like the latest Firefox nightlies have fixed the SSL problems, or at least some of them.
21:35:02
Hmmm, Black Books Series 3 is out on DVD so now I can see the last episode which I missed. Seems there will not be a Series 4. Probably a good thing in some ways.
20:35:02
The Delnero Family - nice mandolins
1 October 200420:35:01
World's Oldest Salad Dressing (Unlikely methinks)
09:21:01
For those who don't delve into the comments, here is a picture of Tokyo eki no kaisatsuguchi. (改札口) Arigato gozaimasu, Ken-san. ii desu yo.
09:16:01
Action figures - I really don't understand the albino bowler
09:15:01
Explain to me why anyone would want one of these?
30 September 2004
10:58:30
Honest personals - I suspect some people will call these people because they think that can't be as bad as they sound. I bet they will get a surprise.
10:56:30
But why Scottish Leather? (I can't imagine anything worse than an enclosed space that reeked of tanned cowhide, but never mind)
08:53:30
No, there wasn't meant to be a link on "at the Tokyo station ticket gate". I just like the word kaisatsuguchi. Note that there is no Japanese word for platform (it's puratto hoomo - a loan word) but there is a word that appears to be reserved solely for the ticket gate. Which of course most railways stations in the UK no longer have. Languages are great.
29 September 2004
21:59:29
Tokyo eki no kaisatsuguchi de
16:37:29
Pickup Lines - would you actually want to go out with someone who feel for one of these?
14:42:29
43 Folders - interesting stuff (Mac-centric)
28 September 200422:37:28
Eugene Mirman - very very odd
22:13:28
Threetwoone (via Negatendo)
15:22:28
Conscientious - a weblog about photography
27 September 200420:52:27
RIP Ernie Ball - great strings
20:52:27
RIP Francoise Sagan
10:13:27
Fieldmethods - good stuff here
26 September 200420:44:26
Joanne Kelly Discography - I want all of these! I wish she hadn't died. *sigh*
25 September 2004 24 September 200421:04:24
Highly biblical picture of me my father found recently. (Cut out of a larger image)
19:15:24
Hey, unknown powder? let's smoke it and stuff.
09:24:24
Growing up sexually - a world atlas
23 September 200423:09:23
Daze of our lives - excellent
22 September 200420:55:22
My Japanese evening class started tonight which will be fun.
16:12:22
Zentai woman - very strange (may offend some people even)
14:18:22
RIP Russ Meyer
07:25:22
WRT the Home Computer picture yesterday, yes, I know it's a fake (it turns out to be from a Fark photoshop competition) but I thought it was too good not to post.
21 September 200422:23:21
Throat singing lessons (via Wills Thrills)
21:35:21
Rapture Ready - good lord (Via negatendo)
08:47:21
Blast it, all the recent Firefox snapshots won't connect with SSL properly. Grrr.
20 September 200413:52:20
Who are the irreligious right?
10:21:20
wooo, fantastic rainbow outside my window.
19 September 200420:15:19
Funny things seen in documentation and code (via negatendo)
10:27:19
At about 1.30 this morning I realised that Bert Jansch's Angie is the Stairway to Heaven of folk guitarists.
10:26:19
Karate in South Africa - Plumstead dojo? Doesn't have that ninja ring does it?
18 September 200409:04:18
Engineer Guy - I like this.
09:03:18
Freedom - phillip suggests that this is classified as Hmmmmmmm, and I agree. (I really get more classification icons. I wonder what the icon for Hmmmmmmm should be?)
09:01:18
Breakup News (via Used Wigs)
17 September 200423:31:17
Penny is sitting reading a book about Study Skills and came to something about how people underline statements in books in pencil rather than ideas. Someone had underlined the paragraph in pencil...
19:54:17
I have a couple of domain names that are up for renewal and today I got letters from some bunch calling themselves "Domain Services" or something trying to charge me 60 quid per name to renew them. They aren't actual invoices but if you didn't know what was going on you would very likely pay them - I wonder if this is actually legal and who I can report them too if it isn't.
07:25:17
Massive Blader stair jump - and the comments section below is quite bizarre too.
16 September 200413:03:16
Wigs for men - I'd love to know how they decided on the names
08:42:16
RIP Johnny Ramone
15 September 2004 14 September 200414:41:14
Is it really a year since the last one?
10:27:14
Want one of these - excellent idea. Of course, I have a worm bin, but I'm not that keen on all those worms....
10:22:14
OK, so everyone is linking to the Springfield map, but it is rather excellent.
08:39:14
I've been thinking about non-Euclidian railways : where you go far enough and the lines meet. An idea before its time perhaps.
08:29:14
New weebl and bob - a return to form methinks
13 September 200409:24:13
Oriental Trading Company - more tatt than you could possible imagine!!
12 September 200422:00:12
As I type this I am looking at a box labelled "Selected Lard". Imagine being a lard selector!
19:39:12
Strangers on my Flight - has sound
11 September 200421:11:11
I wonder if you can get Magnetic Japanese - you know, the Fridge Potery stuff. It comes in languages other than English so why not Japanese? Can't find it though. It would be a good learning aid.
09:04:11
Need Directions - Rude by probably work safe
10 September 2004 9 September 200419:12:09
Blast, I have tennis elbow. I wish there was a more exotic (and accurate) name for it though (I know the medical name). I haven't played tennis for more than 30 years. I was playing rounders last week though.
15:12:09
I just switched off 2 of the 3 machines in my office. The remaining one has silent fans and the silence is astonishing. Of course it will now be cold in winter.
8 September 2004 7 September 2004 6 September 200421:50:06
Fixed earth - over 70 links!!!!!
21:04:06
Voices in my hand - morbid humour
12:07:06
This is a test
5 September 200421:38:05
Festival Express should be interesting
21:37:05
What a surprise - where do you think they have him hidden?
21:37:05
Went to the beach today. Lovely weather - not a breath of wind.
4 September 2004 3 September 200415:52:03
Chief Wiggles - huh?
15:51:03
Oh, the airsick bag guy got himself a proper domain.
09:11:03
Look carefully at the third property photo down.....
2 September 200421:22:02 A Mighty Wind - Alpha & Omega Almightywind Ruach Ha Kodesh Fire Last Chance Ministry
17:38:02
I added a whole load of links today and they have vanished, so if you sent me soemthing good and it isn't showing then it's probably because the update was failing. *sigh*
17:37:02
Blue Chamber - I'm out
1 September 200412:31:01
WRFF! WTF? This is so ludicrous. Go to the tricks page (if you can work out the awful navigation) and have a look at riders showing off their "sickest tricks", and at the same time looking complete pratts. And don't forget to watch the advert featuring Snoop Dogg - he must be desperate to get involved with that! (Gizmodo comments "Snoop will rap about low-interest mortgages if you pay him to.")
31 August 200421:21:31
I'm glad I didn't go for a bandwidth limited broadband package - we used nearly 5G this month and we were away for some of the time too.
16:47:31
I really do think that Apple should send me a G5 iMac so that I can review it for the benefit of all you well-heeled early adopters out there. And of course, any other hardware manufacturers, book publishers, Audio and video producers, clothing manufacturers etc. etc. should clearly also do the same.
09:33:31
PubSub (via red ferret)
30 August 200420:07:30
Just watched "Thoroughly Modern Millie" - one of my all time favourite films.
29 August 200420:31:29
RIP Foster
28 August 2004
17:43:28
Hamster coats again - can someone explain why hamster coats are more inhumane than any other furcoat?
09:10:28
Ayumi cars (Lots of stuff on this site, but certainly NSFW in places)
27 August 200408:51:27
RIP Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
08:49:27
Bunny of the Month Club - "Something dreadful in the mail each month to brighten your life" I get that most mornings from my cat.
26 August 2004 25 August 200422:44:25
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20:44:25
Circle of Clichés (via angusindex)
10:13:25
The Sine Clock is great!
10:02:25
Nice snippet from techdirt : A few years ago, someone I know shared a story of how he jumped into the online dating world with a bit of gusto -- replying to a post on Craigslist in great detail, spending quite a bit of time perfecting the reply, as it appeared that the woman in question matched everything he wanted. He included a link to an old photo (the only one he could think of that was available) in which he had a shaved head, though he pointed out in the email that he had since grown back his hair. After not receiving a reply, he visited Craigslist the next day, and discovered the identical ad from the same woman, with one small adjustment: "no bald guys."
24 August 200420:19:24
Raining stupidly heavily. I'm getting bored by it.
23 August 2004 22 August 2004 21 August 2004 20 August 200416:31:20
Victorian London (via plep)
14:14:20
I heard a track last night by New Found Glory (in fact it's the one for which there is a video available) and liked it a lot, though the video is crap. I don't know anything about them : I can't even classify their sound, it's probably darkcore EMO or something :-). I need a young person to fill me in.
10:25:20
Date to Save - can't decide if this is a real manifestation of what the Children of God called "Flirty Fishing" or if it is a spoof.
08:47:20
Politcal Puppets (Horrible MIDI version of the Maple Leaf Rag in the background)
19 August 200415:28:19
I just got this DVD that says "Contains moderate language and sex references". Why warn me about moderate language, surely it is immoderate language I need to be warned about? Or is it language references I am being warned about?
08:30:19
Umbilical Brothers - utterly, utterly brilliant
18 August 200420:45:18 Hindu wing-nuts (Warning : nasty images on the front page and serious religous hatred - it probably isn't even worth bothering about)
16:31:18
What I want to is where are all the wing-nut Hindus, Buddhists etc. so that I can give equal time to them - there is no religious discrimination here.
16:30:18 Christian Outfitters "Clothing with a higher purpose"
15:04:18 Reason to believe in God - they claim that kidney stones are evidence for a designed universe!
08:50:18
Art diagram by Alfred Barr
08:46:18
Emma has rivets (Presumably for fixing the arms of glasses)
17 August 200422:27:17
Someone sent me mail at my gmail account inviting me to open a gmail account. Odd.
21:21:17
I just discovered that the guy who wrote Ed Anger for the Weekly World News died in February. A great loss to satire.
20:02:17
I just came across the most astonishingly ranting hate site. So crazy and liable to offend that I am not even going to post the link. But it's a classic, take it from me.
17:01:17
My son would love me to have a set of these
16 August 200414:20:16
Godsend Institute (a movie trailer teaser site, even if it doesn't look like one)
15 August 200421:25:15
Some people don't get this Interweb thing do they? Read the disclaimer at the bottom.
10:35:15
It turns out that there isn't that much foam in a shaving cream can. However, I wonder what would happen if you did this with one of that hard setting foam filler stuff. (Apart from ruining whatever you filled with foam).
14 August 200421:35:14
White powder gold "Thermo-gravimetric analysis has revealed that, at certain high temperatures, the material weight of M-state elements will reduce substantially, even to the degree that they will levitate. In specific circumstances they also have the ability to become superconductive and to resonate in parallel dimensions." How do they know about the parallel dimensions then? I suspect that the only gold levitating here will be from other people's pockets into theirs.....
21:29:14 PROTONELECTRON SOCIETY. For Eternity, Life in Outer Space and Survival.
21:10:14
I am really taken with the idea of freezing a can of shaving foam in liquid nitrogen, peeling off the metal and leaving it to thaw out in an enclosed space.
13 August 200414:01:13
"erotic" book covers - I particularly like "Matador of Shame"
12:46:13
Not having much luck finding any of these proposed non-ranting religious sites.
12:39:13 Proof that animals go to heaven - where "proof" means that they can find a passage in the Bible that backs them up. An odd definition of proof methinks.
12:36:13 Behind the Badge of a Deputy Sherrif - I was looking for some of these putative "be happy in heaven sites" and came across this, not that it is actually that kind of site as it still rants a lot.
09:22:13
Light Switch game (broken if you are using Safari!) (You can do it in 15 moves)
12 August 200421:09:12 Tell My Story - hmmmm
16:14:12
Bill Osbourne - stylized Christian Art. I suspect the style it is ized in is the one classed as "naff in the extreme". Please note that Mr Osbourne appears not to proofread his pictures, unless "Dear Pants" is a close friend or something.
14:33:12 Last Stop Hell - mad ranting and bad MIDI!
13:22:12
Oh, 10 points and Cottage are good too.
13:21:12
10 sec films - I like Paris Rubaix
13:20:12
Mike Harding - I saw him in 1974 and I blocked the view of the person behind me who, though nothing to do with this event, I later married.
12:41:12
RSGs - there was one just round the corner from where I grew up.
12:16:12
Everyone seems to be going on about Rick James. I've never heard of him.
12:11:12
Colorstrology - for what it's worth I am "English Manor", a sort of steel grey colour.
09:12:12
Make a Bush face - fun for all the family
11 August 200416:08:11
Invisiblog - I hadn't seen this before. (thanks Coofer Cat)
16:04:11
I'd forgotten about this article
15:41:11
RIP Sacha Distel (a while ago now)
15:17:11
Hakoiri Musume - a daughter in a box
15:16:11
Oya no sune o kajiru - to bite one's parent's shin
10 August 200416:32:10
Ugly Dress - the world's ugliest bridesmaid dresses
16:23:10
RIP Bernard Levin, Fay Wray (and rather late, Henri Cartier Bresson)
16:06:10
Perseids this week. Of course it is raining and cloudy here. As usual when there is a chance of a good meteor shower.
15:13:10
One Eyed Bob's Inappropriate Toys for Children - this is absolutely brilliant.
15:11:10
Forgot to mention the real bummer event of the holiday. I saw a pretty nice Regal square neck dobro copy in a shop for a good price, thought about it, went back to buy it and it had been sold. *sigh* I hope this means that I wasn't meant to buy it because something better is going to come along. I doubt it though.
14:01:10
Document Records (best old blues record label around) have a new website.
13:13:10
Went to see the 5678s last night - they were good. Go see them if their tour is passing you. Also playing were the Everlasting First who had a sound of Steppenwolf to them and nice guitar solos, and The Sound Explosion who were driven along by a very compelling drummer and had a definite early 70s sound to them at times. All in all an excellent evening, even if my ears are still ringing.
12:09:10
Quantum Sleeper - this is creepy. The photo of the two people is creepy is as well for some reason.
9 August 200415:35:09
Indo Boards were everywhere in Cornwall. Way too expensive though.
12:38:09
On the previous, make sure to check out Joleen's Dogg - especially good mash-up
10:41:09
There was some discussion about the "cone of silence". It is mentioned in Get Smart (here's another link). It was also mentioned in Dune as someone suggested, though I have never read the it. I must be honest and say that if you had asked me I would have said it was in Woody Allen's Bananas or perhpas Barabarella, but I certainly watched Get Smart so that's probably where I got it.
10:34:09
Well, here I am again. Only rained once!
