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One hand giveth: the other taketh away

I was thinking about getting a couple of last minute tickets to Glastonbury this weekend. See tickets are selling them (this link will probably die soon, I guess).
They’re not cheap. There’s a booking fee and a transaction fee. What’s this though:

Brilliant! Only one transaction fee for the two tickets. So generous.  But hang on:

Hmm. Nice.
I [...]

Idea showers

Thankfully Dave doesn’t use any of the office-speak phrases on this list compiled by the BBC.
My personal favorite being:

2. “My employers (top half of FTSE 100) recently informed staff that we are no longer allowed to use the phrase brain storm because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. We must now take idea [...]

Friday fun

Who needs a wii?*
All you need is a browser and some javascript to play mario cart.
*(Toilet is at the end of the corridor)

Dave is slightly older than spam

Dave celebrated his 30th birthday last week. And spam celebrates its 30th birthday next week.
Happy birthday Dave.
I hope you die soon spam.

singer, ginger, linger ..

This is for anyone who takes having English as their first language for granted.

The darker side of timelapse

Our regular reader will know that I like timelapse videos.
But this timelapse of a chap trapped in a lift (/elevator) for 41 hours which accompanies an enormous article in The New Yorker about lifts (/elevators) has chilled me proper. Anyone with a fear of lifts (irrational or otherwise) should look away now.

Doing real harm, virtually

Script kiddies hit a new low over Easter, when they hacked the forum of the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation to trigger a Javascript trojan and flash images at visitors.
There is little point lambasting whatever attention-deprived individual perpetrated it (they were lucky the consequences were not more serious) or fanning the wild conspiracy theorising. There will always [...]

Zemanta another look

I like to prove or disprove a point and Dans comment in my original post about Zemanta has prompted me to use Zemanta in writing a proper blog post.
I should have pointed out originally that Zemanta is in early Alpha release stage so its no where near polished, but the idea I think is great [...]