Archive for August, 2005

Blogs – Under the bonnet

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

I had forgotten just how difficult software can be. I got a tough reminder of this when I started peaking under the bonnet of my blog and started tinkering with the code. Should be simple enough for someone used to working with Word and Excel, after all how confusing can it be to change the [...]

Blogging inside hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Blogs are the future!
Have a read of this eyewitness account direct from the path of hurricane Katrina.
The standard method of collecting our news from newspapers and from websites will only become less and less important as we can link to hundreds of eye-witness accounts.

I’m still here. Most of me at least. THere is no power [...]

Norway – The best place to live?

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

So Norway has been ranked the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row?
NORWAY will top a 2005 UN ranking as the best country to live in for the fifth year in a row, the head of the UN Development Program (UNDP) said today.
Rich from North Sea [...]

A trip back in time with Everett True

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I stumbled across the following cartoon strip today. “The Outbursts of Everett True” from the early 1900’s. Some of the strips are really quite funny as they represent the social values of the time and have clearly not withstood the test of time (2) and some are truly timeless (1). For a complete view of [...]

Make money while you sleep playing Poker!

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I just love this story. Any method for making money while you sleep seems pretty cool to me.
Turns out that bots are becoming a problem in online poker rooms. Just purchase a poker playing bot and watch it go, it even colludes (aint that cheating?) with other bots running in the same room. Gosh [...]

Test your brain

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Can you find the man hiding in the coffee?
This is a very interesting photo I recently discovered. There is a man hiding in the following picture somewhere (really). If you can find the man in:
0-3 seconds: You are very right brain intelligent (or you cheated)
3-15 seconds: Pretty cool right brain you have there
15-60 seconds: [...]