Google Worm...

Let me just say this:

• It's a bug in PHP not Google!


• Perl rocks

InformationWeek > Google Security > Google Worm Shows Bad Guys Want Efficiency, Too > December 21, 2004: "the PHP Group, an open-source development organization, issued PHP 4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.3 to close the vulnerabilities this worm exploits. "

Canary Wireless -- Wi-Fi detection

Canary Wireless eShop: "A full-featured Wi-Fi detection and analysis device, the HS10 provides information on signal availability and strength as well as essential network information, including ID, security status and channel."

LightScribe - Burn Labels for you CDs using your CD Burner

Want one!

LightScribe: About: "Imagine that you can create professional-looking labels, using the same laser that burns your data, right inside your CD/DVD drive. Well, it's true-you can! With LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling technology. No more messy markers or clumsy adhesive labels-LightScribe technology brings you a whole new world of personal expression in CD and DVD label making."

3D Back Yard

If you go cross-eyed and look at this picture, you'll see my back yard in 3D.



I tried it 5minutes ago and it worked. I can't see straight yet, but I'm sure the effects are temporary.

Cool looking PC for my shopping list! -- Nanode :: 1

Hoojum Gallery :: Nanode :: 1

Judge Awards $1 Billion in Spam Lawsuit

Judge Awards $1 Billion in Spam Lawsuit: "A federal judge has awarded a Clinton Internet service provider over $1 billion in a lawsuit against companies that used the service provider's equipment to send spam, the Quad-Cities Times reported Saturday."

Media Matters for America

Any site that so annoys the Bush propoganda machine impartial and unbiased news media deserves to be on my RSS sources list :)

O'Reilly to Media Matters: "O'Reilly to Media Matters: '[Y]ou character assassins. ... You guys really are despicable weasels'"

How about a nice cup of Hoasca tea

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court sided Friday with a New Mexico church that wants to use hallucinogenic tea as part of its services this Christmas.

Justices lifted a temporary stay that the government had won last week.

The Bush administration contends the hoasca tea is illegal and dangerous.

Nancy Hollander, the lawyer for the Brazil-based O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, told justices in a filing that hoasca is not only safe, but to members it "is sacred and their sacramental use of hoasca connects them to God."

Microsoft Releases Desktop Search ...

or if you prefer "MS 'v' Google, Round 3"

IT Observer - Microsoft Releases Desktop Search: "The online search battle was extended earlier this week, ...blah, blah, blah, ..."

On Wednesday Larry Page scratched his arse. On Friday Bill Gates scratched his arse and added, "My arse is bigger, faster and better integrated with my desktop than Larry's arse.".

Jesus, it's 1996 all over again.

p.s., "Arse" is English for "Ass", but sounds better.

Galaxian

http://ukdiveboy.textamerica.com/?r=1775598

I hate Galaxian. I hated it in the 80's and I hate it now.

Which, translated, really means:

I'm crap at Galaxian. I was crap at it in the 80's and I'm crap at it now.

dual-layer ROM HD-DVD and DVD disc

I recall this was the promise of SA-CD - and look how that turned out ... i.e., the studios didn't bother to make dual layer discs.

News Stories - The IEE: "Memory-Tech and Toshiba have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD-DVD and DVD formats.

...

The new disc makes it possible for consumers to view DVD content on standard DVD players and, after purchasing an HD-DVD player, to enjoy high definition content on the HD-DVD layer from the same disc. "

career in the space industry

Perhaps it's time for me to re-train!!

News Stories - The IEE: "Leicester's De Montfort University has launched the first course for IT students seeking a career in the space industry. The Space Systems course covers all the key concepts involved in space exploration, including spacecraft design, data collection and interpretation, and the workings of the space industry."

Pictures taken from model aircraft

Not by me. I'm not that sad ... yet.

But this is a good Golden Gate Bridge:


Can't be real - notice the lack of fog.

If I were in the FBI, or the Dept of Homeland Security, or MI5, I'd be worried about the number of pictures taken of power plants by model aircraft. That's what I'd be investigating matey, but hippies in Fresno!

RC Groups Discussion - 2005 Calendar Entries

RejectionHotline.com

In preparation for the holiday season. Good looking folks - such as yours truely - should find and memorize the Rejection Hotline number nearest to them :-)


RejectionHotline.com Home Page: "In a nutshell, the Rejection Hotline is a phone number you can give out if you just don't want to give out your real number. Callers hear our humorous Rejection Hotline recording and are not-so-subtly informed of your non-interest."

Linux Reference Center - Sponsored by Microsoft

I'm sorry, but does Conflict of Interest not spring to mind when you see this:

Ah we are so lucky, here in the West, that we have the luxury of an unbiased media...


[taken from Linux Today]

Minimo Project

Oooooo!

Minimo Project: "The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices."

Retro Games!

Got one of those Namco "Plug and Play TV" game things.
- 5 classic 80's games in a classic 80's joystick: $20
- Nostagia: Priceless

He's making his list, he's checking it twice...

Percy

Razor

Rescue Heroes

Video Now

Namco TV Games

Luxury Hotel in New York City - The MUSE Hotel, NY

Luxury Hotel in New York City - The MUSE Hotel, NY

Kewl hotel. Must get tix.

introduction to MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT

No, they're not possessed, they're "singing".

MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT (Men's Choir Shouters) was formed in 1987 in Oulu, Finland, by a group of young men who clearly had nothing better to do. The idea was to dress ca. 20 men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber ties, and train them to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage.

introduction to MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT

And moving stuff it is too!

Websites that require IE

HAA!

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

That's soooooooo last millenium!

The Single Life

The wife's in England for the next month. Means I'm on my own. It's strange, I don't have anyone to tell me it's bed time.

Nearly 1am now. Don't think I can surf the web much longer.

Wish I could slip into a coma...

Graphic - Button

Don't ask!



Hmmm, maybe the green is a little too green.

Dog - Lazy

Lucky

This dog has it too easy

Dog

Lucky

feeling not so lucky!

Graphic

Too many words devoted to cooking ...

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Dude,

It's just food. What's wrong with Beans and Beer?

More than that, you order out.

Engineers don't have time to cook stuff!

Dude, I'm getting a Dell!

Dell Gets $700M Deal From Royal Philips

Dell Inc. said Thursday that it has won a $700 million, 5-year contract to provide computers and services for Royal Philips Electronics.

JoBo Giga Vu PRO

Looks kewl. I wonder what it runs ...
http://www.jobodigital.com/products/giga_vu_pro.htm

Aren't SIM cards great!

It's just possible that I'm a geek. But this morning, I managed to be in Santa Clara, London and Brussels within a few minutes. Or at least, to all intents and purposes I was.

Just be changing the SIM card in my mobile phone. I faked a presence in three different countries - for entirely dubious purposes. "Call me back I'm on 0778 ...", tee-hee. Supposedly in a smokey pub in Olde London Town - they then never guessed I was sat in my boxer's drinking latte in Sunny California.

Where did the sun go?

This morning I was taking a picture of the frost (yeah, I know, frost ... in California! What a novelty!). Seems my sexy new Philips Key Ring 010 USB Camera didn't like the sun ... either that or the sun was momentarily eclipsed and no one but I noticed!



Notice the black blob in the middle of the bright part of the sky!