A policeman came and knocked on my door today. He wanted to ask me a few questions. He asked if I was [my name], and I said yes. Then he asked if I had anything to do with [local football club]. Obviously not! It was very odd. Apparently, there was an incident at said club yesterday, and they needed to question someone else who has my (pretty uncommon, especially locally) name, but I’m the only person in Norfolk with my …
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This morning I sent an email to everyone at work: To: All Staff Subject: Paying for internet access after Easter As you’re aware, money is tight next year. To make things worse, our school internet connection costs have increased – mainly because we are now metered, and have to pay-per-site rather than per-month. It’s a bit like having Pay As You Go rather than a monthly contract on your mobile. In consultation with a working party of staff, it has …
A list of all the games (from Wikipedia, sorry) and some indepth reviews of each title: Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle – great! Alien Storm – rubbish! Alien Syndrome (arcade) – OK! Altered Beast – rubbish! Bonanza Bros. – OK! Columns – Not as good as the Master System version! Comix Zone – great but hard! Decap Attack – amazing! Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine – great! Dynamite Headdy – not as good as it used to be! ESWAT: …
This was useful to me recently. I thought I’d post it here in case I forget how to do it in the future! It’s a way of letting you run sshd on a port other than 22, or in addition to 22. Be sure to read the comments on how to do the latter easily. Note that although the instructions are for Tiger, it works fine on Leopard too. macosxhints.com – 10.4: Change the default sshd port
To my iMac! Yay! On the 10th of March last year, I took delivery of my shiny new 24″ iMac. It marked the ditching of my last remaining Windows PC. Have I regretted it? Not in the slightest. It’s still just as nippy as it was a year ago. I can do everything I want to do on it, and everything just seems so much better, easier, and even quieter. It also draws less power than my old PC, takes …
Disney are bringing their own music game to the Wii and DS with Ultimate Band. Thankfully, it isn’t filled with High School Musical tracks – it actually has proper music! You don’t need any instrument peripherals either. Behold: And the blurb: Ever wondered what it would be like to experience living like the Ultimate Band? Well this is your chance to find out! To celebrate the launch of Ultimate Band on the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, Disney Interactive Studios …
This video looks like some sort of stop-frame animation made with the sort of miniature people you get for train sets, but in fact, it’s all real. Real actual people. Tilt-shifting is a method of changing the focus of shots to give this sort of effect. (via Why, That’s Delightful!)
It was never meant to be a serious contender for any sort of awards. Samuel L Jackson pretty much only took part “for the lulz”. Even the name is stupid. But the film? Stupid. And rubbish. But watchable, for some reason. Nobody in it can act. The special effects are simply “special” (the green snake’s POV? Rubbish), and the plot doesn’t make any sense. There are holes all over the place, such as needing to know which snake bit who, …
Imagine my surprise when I happened to notice these though my camera. You can’t see them on the Wii’s sensor bar through just your eyes, but the camera managed to pick them up. The Wii wasn’t even on! Now I know they’re there. Burning into my face all day.
