September | 2005 | mistersnappy

Things I learned from the internet

Yesterday I learned something that will win me brownie points with Mrs Menace. I’m not allowed near the iron becuase my attempts at ironing, although good, are rather long winded and ‘painful’, to quote an expert. Yesterday, however, I learned something from the internet that will help me claw back some respectability in the laundry…

Will the wait be worth it?

While we wait for Rita to hit Houston I did a little research to find out when they are going to name a hurricane after my good self. It seems though that the eastern north pacific will have to wait until 2008 for hurricane Simon. It’s OK, I’ll be gentle!

Strange voices

On other train lines you often get a soothing female voice to inform you to ‘mind the gap’ or indeed to ‘stand clear of the doors’. It’s the subtle tone that encourages you to do as you are told and not to obstruct the doors or slip between the train and the platform. Since I…

Very sensible search

Google launch another beta! This time is a search dedicated to weblogs and it’s called GoogleBlogSearch. It’s a fabulous bit of search and works exceedingly well. For example, if you search ‘menace’ little old me pops up right at the top!!

Very sensible search

another one swallowed up

Another little fish has been swallowed up by a big shark! Just like Flickr was eaten by Yahoo!, today everyones favourite free VOIP provider Skype was gobbled up by ebay of all people. Those luck chaps at Skype have made a pretty penny out of the deal and it seems that it will be mutually…

3.2

Today I will mostly be powered by Moveable Type version 3.2. So far the changes are all behind the scene and from my technical standpoint they make the posting experience more colourful. Hopefully it will put a further end to the menace of spam in both comments and trackback. I’m sure I’ll have a further…

Hunter's final thought

Just published in Rolling Stone magazine are what are reported to be the last words of Hunter S Thompson. He recently achieved his final wish to have is ashes shot out of a canon across his ‘compound’. The event was attended by 400 of his nearest and dearest who saw his last remains shot into…

More geo tagging toys

Folling the instructions here has enabled me to geo tag my blog, that is locate me down to the last digit! This means I can have toys like this… …that tells me whats going on near where I am most of the time and who is blogging in my neibourhood. Kinda neat eh! Another one…

Busy bee

I’ve been terribly slack again! It’s been so busy here and here that there has been hardly a moment to tickle the keys. We have a site launch for this in a few weeks so there will be some time then to take breath. But until then I will endevour to keep this little place…