Dalek Theft

Theres been recent increases in Dalek theft like the Dalek at a Somerset tourist site abducted last week, followed by a ransom note. Less than a week later the thieves decided the Doctor Who robot was too hot to handle and was dumped on Glastonbury Tor, where it was recovered and carried away by stretcher before it ha d a chance to retaliate.

YubNub

is an interesting site to create and use a social command line interface to the web, allowing the addition of new commands. As an example "rashbre" entered into this command line will now take you directly to this web site.
Check it out.

apple iphone

Remember the first Apple iphone picture from iCreate?

Here is another one doing the internet rounds, which is in keeping with the new style iPods and has a flip out key pad modelled on iCalc.

The telephone companies want to make money from music downloads, whereas the traditional iPod is uploaded from the owner's CD music collection.

This makes the debate about listening to music via a phone rather convoluted because of the economic model used by the phone companies.

iWonder?

blogwords

Now that rashbre2 has been around for a few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to look at the rate of hits on popular blogs based upon search terms. The current most popular searches, according to some of the search statisticians seem to be:

paris hilton
playstation 2 cheats
games
michael jackson
google
carmen electra
jessica simpson
yahoo
ebay
vera wang

These change daily, but it is interesting to get a snapshot in time.

Windsor evening

Roger was over from Hannover, so in the evening we selected Windsor for a beer and riverside chat.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

So every episode of the Dr Who series has the big bad wolf in it? Above from Episode 3; Below from Episode 8. You figure it out.

Bribing Elizabeth

Elizabeth requested Dodger's appearance. Dooce has been successful including her pet postings like the spaghetti dog incident, so I may as well give it a try!

jpod and london eye pod

An interesting marketing idea for someone. It looks as if there will soon be a book. Meanwhile, back at the London Eye (Pod).

A taxing day

The piles of paper have stacked ever higher and today became the day to curb their increase. Two sets of tax returns and several other complicated documents were prepared and are ready to submit. The usual dilemma with the UK tax. I am ready to submit it, but the pin number takes seven working days to arrive. I may as well post it.

Hunting for a switch

I have a theory that in our relatively high-tech lifestyle a different electrical appliance breaks every day. It could be a light bulb, a computer or, as today, the central heating pipe switch. No problemo! off to the local stores...


Of course the design of the switch and how it clamps to the pipe has changed. So to another set of shops, through the winding lanes from Reading but the same story.

So back home without the component, but with a new project to call a plumber.

Ye olde days of webbe

Wanna see how it used to be? dial up the Wayback Machine, to see old versions of popular Web sites dating back to 1996. There's a strange fascination to seeing old sites you know, what they said then and what they say now! In 1996, the Web was new and novel. An ancient site I remember was the Trojan Room Coffee Machine, which was an early web cam connected to check the level of coffee in a pot in a nearby room. Then there was the Mercury project from 1994 (I'm in the journal!) to operate a crane and camera to dig in sand and discover things by remote control. There was another one in Australia, which is still in use with a better control panel, eleven years later.
Not to mention 1995's Overdraft Arms!

Well worth a browse.

Manchester second half

Half a day in Manchester, to an idyllic garden at the Whipping Stocks for a St. Clements with John and Michael before onward to business. Then back in the BMW to the airport and thence homeward to Hampshire.