The Musings of Chris Samuel

A wonderful poster by Alec Muffett..

I can’t wait till I get back to Australia and can print a colour A3 version of this for my office door..

Posted on March 16th, 2008 under Alec Muffett, Linux, Silly. Comments: None

This is very cool, collect the green discs with your white disk, touch blue ones to bank them and avoid the red ones or it’s game over.
My highest score to date is 2216 8599 11847, if you beat it leave a comment..
Thanks Alec!

Posted on January 19th, 2008 under Alec Muffett, Internet, Software. Comments: None

Classic..
Minesweeper The Movie - Now that it’s a movie, you can use it to procrastinate for a full 90 minutes.
Thanks Alec..

Posted on September 1st, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Internet, Microsoft, Silly. Comments: None

Picking up on something that Alec wrote about flooding and now being not a good time to be in insurance, I always think that the Monster Raving Loony Party had the right idea in their 2001 UK election manifesto.
Under a Loony government any prospective home purchaser be issued with a full description of such dictionary [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, News, Silly. Comments: None

“Perl, in a Nutshell” sung by Pudge, thanks for the pointer Alec!

Posted on July 14th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Music, Silly, Software. Comments: None

My old friend Alec Muffett has switched his Dropsafe blog to Wordpress. Looks a lot nicer!

Posted on June 28th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Wordpress. Comments: 3

Inspired by Alec, I just checked using the Great Firewall of China checking site and found out that my site, along with Donna’s, her blog, her podcast, the site for her first book and the web site we set up to promote self-employment for folks on the Autism spectrum, Auties.org, are all blocked!

Presumably it’s working [...]

Posted on May 11th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Donna Williams, Internet, Politics. Comments: 2

In response to a blog from Alec I left the following comment, which is really a “dear lazyweb” question..
Err.. I might be missing something here, but..
What’s the point of twitter ?
AFAICS all you get is out of date information about what someone claimed to be doing some hours, days or weeks ago.
Sorry if I’m being [...]

Posted on May 9th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Internet, Questions. Comments: 5

The (happily recovered from nasty bike accident) Alec Muffett has just published a rather nice video about Web 2.0 Security and why there are no new problems, just recycled and updated old ones.
A refreshingly down to earth look at the current hype and worry over “Web 2.0″.1
Watch the cat..
I still want to know what [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 under Alec Muffett, Security. Comments: None