Archive for February, 2007

Saving The Easter Bunny

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

As we are approaching the month of March, but mainly because I’m just in a good mood, here is an Easter joke, for all you folks.
A man was blissfully driving along the highway, when he saw the Easter Bunny hopping across the middle of the road. He swerved to avoid hitting the Bunny, but unfortunately [...]

Web 2.0

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. The following video shows how these technologies are effectiving how we use the net.

The English Language

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

If you’ve learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius!
Pursue at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He [...]

Java - Hated By Professionals

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

To prove to all the non-believers, here are some semi-professional projects which the ‘destroyer of souls’ language. Note the colourful language in the comments. All code samples were found online using Google Code Search. Engage the profanity…

DumperGui.java - From the MediaWiki project, the program that runs Wikipedia

// fixme is there escaping? is this a [...]

The WiiBot

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

The WiiBot - a “sword-wielding, tennis-playing, WiiMote-controlled, friendly robot” and an amazing geek project. The web page about this project contains more information about how the project was made, the software that controlled it and the industrial robot that was used.