Archive for July, 2006

University Education

Monday, July 24th, 2006

… provides you with a sense of high level maturity. Hence the following highly intellectual video clips.

Family Guy
The Matrix
In Bed
And a topical series:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Ahh… toilet humour never gets old.

Apple goes bankrupt, Microsoft ‘buys out’ the iPod design

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Finally, Apple has been taken over. Although I’d have preferred the Apple to go to some open-source Linux community, which would have been better, at least it has gone to Microsoft. Based on recent news, Microsoft have purchased all relevent patents from Apple employees, and intend to ‘relauch’ the iPod under a new name and [...]

Support regarding commonly used software

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included [...]

How to add Google Calendar to Evolution

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

If you use Google Calendar and the Linux Evolution PIM program then it can be useful to have your Google Calendar syncronised locally with Evolution. Doing this is simple, as Google helpfully provide remote access via ICAL.

Go to http://www.google.com/calendar/
Login if required
Click the ‘Settings’ link in the top right
Click the ‘Calendars’ tab
Click the name of the [...]

Spam of the Day: “Hi, Mario”

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

“Hi, Mario
I am a lovely and lonely Lady who is looking for the man who will make me happy and whom I want to feel like in paradise with!
If you want to be my beautiful Hero who will save me from this loneliness find me
http://www.planet-oflove.com/
and wake me up with a warm kiss.
Yourth faithfully
Folvyn”
What the heck? [...]

Horses

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Most people, I believe, would agree that a horse has an even number of legs. Correct?
Of course, it is also true that a horse has forelegs in front and two legs in back. Four plus two equals six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse to have. Not numerically, but [...]

I’m a programmer and I’m half okay…

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Oh, I am a C programmer and I’m okay.
I muck with indices and structs all day,
And when it works, I shout hoo-ray.
Oh, I am a C programmer and I’m okay.
Oh, I am a Java programmer and I’m not okay.
I type ‘javac’ and then I wait and pray;
So damn slow, only works well on a Cray.
Oh, [...]

You want to fight me for my girlfriend, eh?

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Come on. Seriously, get in my way and I will fight you. No I don’t care how hard you are, nor how you’ve styled your hair… in fact, forget the fighting. Let me get in my ride and I’ll race you! Come on, let’s race!
Ok - so there we go. I just summed up the [...]

The Internet - It’s not a truck.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Theodore Fulton Stevens (born November 18, 1923) is an American politician from Alaska. He is currently the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. In addition he has a highly avant-garde knowledge of the Internet. For example: did you know that the indeed is “not a truck”, and in fact consists of a “series of [...]