Irreverent and sometimes irrelevant thoughts.
A while back, I came across Benjamin J. Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) and his Commodore 64 laptop. This is a quite a fascinating machine, considering the actual “portable” 64 Executive was a heavy beast that could kill if hurled at you. While Ben took the 64’s odd colour, keyboard and 64C’s motherboard, his is structured […]
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I saw the première episode of No Ordinary Family, plus a bit of the second, and I couldn’t help but think of this: Some folks fly to a strange place, have a plane crash, come back with special powers. One of them is an attractive blonde woman. Where it differs is that one […]
Happy New Year to all readers! Year of the Rabbit: it’s certainly been a nice start to it here with beautiful, calm weather (especially after the winds yesterday). Blessings to you all! And exactly four (lunar) months to Matariki. None of this newfangled solar-calendar Pope Gregory stuff for us here in the eastern hemisphere, […]
Normally I think Piers Morgan is a plonker, and the time Jeremy Clarkson punched him at the BAFTAs remains one of entertainment’s best stories. However, I have enjoyed Life Stories, and he has been a worthy successor, in my mind, to Larry King. Of course it’s not the same show, but the important thing […]
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For those who found the last post too technical, too long, too boring, or too repetitive, a summary: Bear in mind I haven’t drawn for a while, except typefaces which I know I can modify (and which I spend a lot more time on). I’m no Hugh MacLeod, OK? You may also like The real […]
I seem to be to computers what Frank Spencer is to life. Long-time readers will know that in 2009, Vox locked me out. We went round and round for months, with the company suggesting all sorts of solutions, usually putting the blame back on me or the ISP. I had tried logging in […]
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I think Telstra Clear’s Captcha for its Customer Zone is broken. I wish I took screen shots of each failed attempt now, since it’s kicked me off after five tries. But this one was intriguing. I never expected to see a quaint s, especially in a context as digital as a Captcha, in usage […]
Despite the smaller visitor numbers, this blog seems to leave way more spam in the Akismet queue than the other Wordpress installations we have. I had wanted to write a post swearing at some of the dumb comments that come in, as all of these are automated, but three of the first ten today are […]
I know I did this on November 23 on my Tumblr, but I have to share this joke with the Ashes to Ashes fans out there. Will the opening of Upstairs, Downstairs on Boxing Day on BBC1 (at 9 p.m.) begin with the Alexander Faris theme tune (see also below), or will Keeley Hawes […]
Apart from sounding like a burger, the Mitsubishi Zinger—or, to give its full model name these days in Taiwan, the Super Zinger (not kidding)—is one of those oddball vehicles I come across when editing Autocade. It’s a minivan based on a truck chassis—in this case the first-generation Mitsubishi Challenger—and a pretty ugly one at that. […]