A good fit

An advert that if it was any other company would bring tears to the eyes... this did eventually, as I laughed so much!  Does make me worry about the mind of the marketing fraternity.

From Boing Boing
"A good fit BB pal Vann Hall points us to this brilliant KY Jelly advertisement that, unfortunately, is not officially sanctioned by Johnson & Johnson. It should be though! Link (via Adrants) "

 

White Wedding
What a fantastic day - brilliant best man's speech (of course) and even the weather didn't stop everybody having fun. Of course that is probably because the Brits and the Washington locals were all used to the rain.

Whale ahoy

Well a wet and winding day around the San Juan Islands near Seattle lead to a rather spectacular time watching a pod of whales.

Week 2

Yes I have now completed my second week as Regional CTO at HP. Wow! This is going to be so much fun.... though at times it feels like I could make a fortune harvesting acronyms! I guess I should consider I made it, when on day 7 I made up my first acronym at HP :)

I now have a car, so a daily fight for the parking bays opposite the house has started
I now have a laptop AND email address AND a new mobile phone number --- all terribly efficient --- what more does a man need :)

The best bit, has got to be the people, and the local office (only a 25 minute walk)
Of course, Oliver did point out that as soon as I joined the share price had a hickup and a half, but, HONEST, it wasn't me!

The daleks are back ;)

The BBC has confirmed that artistic differences have been resolved and the Daleks will be back in the new series... now if only we could get Ace back.

SCO starts getting wise....?

The Register has an interesting article about how the SCO CEO once so full of brovado now seems to be wising up to the fact they may not win ... may not win the court cases, may not win any new customer deals ... oh and may not win any FRIENDS.

I think the line I liked the best was... " SCO, however, became less ambitious after a judge largely tossed out its claim against DaimlerChrysler. SCO can ill afford a series of thrown out suits that make it look like a litigation hungry open source ambulance chaser. Oh wait. "

Read it here.

Need directions??

I couldn't resist this ... Classic lines like "You've been going round in circles for the last half hour" and "Can't you just stop and ask for directions for once"and the one all us blokes have used at some point ... "I know it is around here somewhere"

Enjoy - office safe - Only for over 18s

National Orgasm Week

Penguins of the future

Couldn't resist this one...

http://www.scriobh.com/fark/penguins.gif

OMG How much fun




Found at http://www.b3ta.com/board/3475318

One way ...

To sell underwear :)
Is that Dubya I see before me????

http://www.agentprovocateur.com/lost_control/lost_control_high.php

About time
I am amazed it has taken so long for this to be produced - a docking station for the iPod with speakers - and decent speakers at that.

http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.asp?ProdId=ONSTAGE&SerId=HMM&sCatId=

Hidden dangers of Laptop bags

Having gone through the lining of a number of leather jackets I was rather amused to see this entry at Layer 8.  A rather imaginative way of carrying and protecting you laptop.  I think the line that got me was "Need to go out in the rain? Putting your PowerPizza in a carrier bag will not only increase the level of disguise - it'll keep it dry too"

Here is the entry;

Hidden dangers of laptop bags Those black, nondescript laptop bags are boring - and dangerous. Just think: You could put your black laptop bag down next to you at the airport and an evil mastermind's...

The Bush conspiracy generator

Following on from the October Surprise we now have a conspiracy theory generator for George.

The George W. Bush Conspiracy Generator: "George W. Bush caused the Cubs to lose to the Marlins in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series so that Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, the Christian Coalition, big corporations, and oil companies could invade Iraqis."

If Only....

[via Gizmodo]

The Chewbacca Defense

We all heard the findings of the Sept 11 report last week, where they concluded that there was no significant link between Osama Bin Liner and Iraq. Nor in fact any significant link between al-Qaida and Iraq.
Of course almost at the same time, we also heard many, seeming gifted, members of the various governments contradicting this report's findings.

While I personally have an opinion, that provided we make good the country/world will be better place - I still have my doubts as to the timing and merits of such an all out "correction" of a foreign country/culture.

The following link did make me smile, I prefer to look at this as the Chewbacca Defense rather than the whatever defense --- you get the picture.

9/11 Panel Finds No Link Between Bin Laden And Iraq; White House Uses "Whatever" Defense

Essential IPod upgrade

As you know I love my iPod ... both of them :) 
An enterprising soul has designed an upgrade for the iTrip (localised FM transmitter for the iPod allowing you to listen to your iPod on any nearby radio)

The upgrade is an iTrip AMP :)  Simple but I am sure quite effective... and what a fantastic idea those at Boing Boing came up with.  Now you can OVERRIDE the music coming from the car with their windows open next to you.

Now all that I am missing, is a car.

Original article;
"DIY ITrip amp This fellow created an interesting amp design for an iTrip. Boing Boing reader Ian Meyer says, " He said that it would probably be capable of overpowering broadcast stations for a small radium (ie: enough to blast some Queen in place of the hippity-hoppity music that the guy in the car next to me is listening to loud enough to be heard for half a mile)." [Ed: Hippity Hoppity? Did someone see "The Ladykillers"?] Link
[via Boing Boing]"

Badgers

Everybody loves Badgers.... Cute, fluffy, and highly addictive :)

http://www.footballbadgers.com/

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badgers.html

SCO - the slow demise

While I haven't been a fan of SCO since Openmail, their corporate strategy for making money does seem strange.  They are writing the book on "how to make friends and influence people" --- or maybe just the chapter on how to upset everybody and your friends.

Not only have they made threatening noises at SUN (probably one of the closest friends) by publicly telling them they can't open source Solaris --- even when the details of such a move are undefined/undecided/hot-air (well they have been talking about it for a few years now)  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/09/sco_nogpl_solaris/

But also, their revenue has tanked.  I think the line that summarise this CNet article for me is "its SCOsource licensing effort yielded only $11,000 in revenue at a cost of $4.5 million in expenses. " 

Though it is the line at the end that made me laugh the most.  "The company also announced on Thursday that it had notified the Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart and Frankfurt Freiverkehr stock exchanges that its ticker symbol had been listed without the company's permission. SCO is asking the exchanges to remove the symbol."

SCO revenue takes a tumble The company's Unix licensing program costs a lot more than it brings in.
[via CNET News.com]

As Britain goes to the polls

For the MEP elections and local government - hope my team doesn't fall at the first hurdle - I was chatting to a friend about what the incumbant American Government might do to secure the election in November.

A quick search later, lead us to October Surprise a rather good/entertaining online survey about that Rabbit will be pulled out of the Bush bag ahead of this years elections.  You can review the results and vote here; http://www.octobersurprise.net

Now, wouldn't it be funny/scarey if this was actually an endorsed project to work out WHAT needed to be done to win the election.

On a similar but much more interesting note, check out the book INTERFACE by Stephen Bury (aka Neal Stephenson + Frederick George)

Too stressed to work?

Well you must be getting pretty close to be here, reading this :)
http://www.viceking.net/bubblewrap.swf

Thanks Sean