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I have a tagline in my emails below my signature that reads,

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t

It’s one of those fnarr things that other programmers understand straight away and others take a few reads to ‘get’. I can’t remember when I put it in my signature but it’s been there ages.

anyway, I got a reply this morning to an email I sent..

LOL! a funny accountant!

I got me trying to think of more fnarr business one liners, what funny one liners have you got in your industry?

Hot on the heels of me bigging up Chrome in a previous post I got a bit of a shock when I tried to visit Google adsense from Google Analytics

yes, I know it’s because of the ‘s’

I was stumbling today and I found this really great post about 101 Writing tips.

It has gems like,

#9 Don’t use commas, to separate text unnecessarily.

#10 It can be shown that you shouldn’t miss out too many details.

#46 To qualify is to weaken, in most cases.

#74 Sporting analogies won’t even get you to first base.

It was hilarious, I must have been guilty of most of them since I started blogging, especially, commas, how about you?

The post is 101 Writing Tips

oh, btw… I just finished coding the WordPress version of CommentLuv 2.0b and it’s working! The commentluv site will be finished soon too and beta testers will be needed…..

Here it is, proof that the failing economy has nothing to do with the credit crunch. Check out this picture, correct me if I’m wrong but, aren’t copper coins supposed to be non-magnetic?

I tried it with every coin I could find, not every one is magnetic. Some of the shiny new looking ones are, most of the old ones aren’t. (continue reading…)

<a href=”"><img class=”imgleft” src=”" title=”" alt=”"/>Rhys from GospelRhys.co.uk made some really interesting points about a recent report that the North of England was beyond repair and they should all just come down here to London where everything is smashing (windows) all the time!

A couple of weeks ago, my missus said she needed to visit her brother up north for a week to help out with his shop.

She was dreading it! She’s lived in London for yearsnyearsnyears and couldn’t possibly imagine that anything outside of London exists, our conversations would go like this… (continue reading…)

..from the WordPress Ideas site.. lol

More here

hurray! since getting my o2 broadband, my download speed has to be displayed as Mb/s instead of Kb/s.

I was getting 1.6Mb/s on a download the other day and everyone who I told about it, either didn’t care or didn’t know just how awesome being able to download at over a meg per second is.

the infidels!

It got me thinking about those other times where I was raving about something cool and the people I’m talking to get that glassed over look in their eyes that means they’re humouring me because I might be able to fix their computer later…:-)

I had 6 computers to fix yesterday, here are some of the things I heard..

1. “it wasn’t like that before”
   if you say so… (thinking…hah! don’t make me laugh, you don’t even know what it is like now, you probably don’t even know what it is in the first place)
2. “OMG it’s showing all my personal data”
   well, yes, you just signed in with a username and password. You’re probably registered on their site
3. “but I’ve got a virus scanner”
   a virus scanner wont protect you if you open that msn file send request from someone you don’t know
4. “it came free with my broadband”
   yes but you still need to scan regularly with up to date definitions
5. “up to date whatinifitions?”
   [sigh]
6. “that other computer has a virus scanner, can I just take it from there and put it on this one?”
   [loooong sigh]
7. “but it’s connected at 100Mb/s, how come it’s so slow?”
   that’s the speed of your network card connection, not your internet speed
8. “oh, but my internet speed is 8meg”
   It’s up to eight meg sure, you’ll probably get around 3/4 of a meg in actual download speed
9. “can I access this router from my home?”
   where do you live?
   “it’s just down the road…”
   [@!??]

sometimes I feel like the man with one eye in the kingdom of the blind

This is my new album cover! Well, actually it’s a cool thing I saw on a blog while stumble-ing today. It involves visiting sites and using what you get in Photoshop or similar paint program. The game goes like this…
(you may want to middle click these to open them in new tabs)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
   The first article title on this page will be the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
   The last four words of the last quote on the page will be the name of your album
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
   The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml
   Click on the users info link and look for the italic subtitle below the bold blog name. That will be your first hit single.
5. Use a graphics program to put them all together like I did above and share it here..

For completeness, here are all the urls that came up for me..
1 2 3 4

Lets see what you get….

Here’s a couple more that I made (no refreshes allowed, you have to choose whatever comes up (even russian tag lines!) )