Archive for October, 2005

Meth dealers use model rocket to hide drugs

Links, 13th October

This is just beyond awesome: Boing Boing: Meth dealers use model rocket to hide drugs

 
via: boingboing.net

Mac T-Shirts

Design, Technology, Work, 13th October
spinner shirt

I know I’m becoming a total mac-geek when I like t-shirts with mac GUI widgets on them. At work I use a mac while at home I’m in PC/Windows land. I have to say, there are more elements of OS X that I’d like in Windows rather than vice-versa.

The shopping cart system over on panic.com is also awesomely cool and the UI is instantly useable to mac users.

 
 
via: preshrunk.info

Justin Frankel “The World’s Most Dangerous Geek”

Technology, 13th October

There’s a great article over on rollingstone.com about Justin Frankel, the guy behing winamp, the AOL buy-out of his company and the ensuing fallout. I remember the very first time I ran winamp on a PC, it was and still is a very nice piece of software.

 

wordpress.com

News, Technology, 7th October

So I’m adding to the general blogosphere buzz by blogging about a blogging tool. A while ago I put my email address into some box on wordpress.com and a few days ago I got an invite to start a blog. Wordpress.com offers a free pre-installed wordpress hosting solution much like blogger. So I setup a completely pointless blog just to try it out.

It’s a very neat setup, you can do almost everything you can on a normal wordpress setup except edit the actual page templates. It comes with a choice of eight different themes which is more than adequate for this type of service. I think I’ll stick to my own hosted wordpress install though. The geek in me requires much more customisation than wordpress.com allows.

 

Google Reader

Technology, 7th October

Google playing catch-up with RSS have release Google Reader, a web based feed reader.

 

Serenity Again

Movies & TV, 7th October

Serenity has been officially released now and I went to see it for a second time last night with The Gang. It was fantastic even on the repeat viewing and has been getting some great reviews in the press. Even Orson Scott Card likes it!

 

Pet Hate No. 1

Me, 4th October

Websites that don’t work without the www at the beginning of the domain name. A typical culrpit is Argos (omg doesn’t work).

 

Sweet, sweet internet

Me, 4th October

Wahey, I’m back on the ‘net. Last Saturday we got cable installed in our new flat complete with 1MB internet (soon to be four!) :D