Just chatted to a friend of mine who’s in Singapore airport at the moment, when I asked him how the flight was he said:
when they tell the flight attendants to tighten their seatbelts you know you’re in for a rough ride!
🙂
Category Archives: Humour
An Amusing Collection of Quotes
From Shelley about IE7:
Writing Learning JavaScript and now Adding Ajax, as well as creating web page applications such as my photo popup has led me to an epiphany: Microsoft really doesn’t want us to use IE. No, I’m not being facetious–the company would probably prefer that people move to another browser.
(Those looking for an alternative might want to try Firefox)
Shelley also mentions how she has to test with IE6 now, using a Virtual PC image:
According to the IE weblog, this VPC image will only function until April 1st, 2007, but I think the April Fool’s joke is getting people to reserve both memory and disc space–as well as having to go through Microsoft’s validation process–just to test against a browser. What happens after April, then? Are all the Windows 2000 installations going away? There will be no need to test for IE6?
But there seems to be a problem with those images, as Paul Morriss found out, Microsoft seems to think they’re dodgy knock-offs, even though they came from them originally:
Just for fun I then decided to upgrade IE on the Virtual PC to IE7. When it got to verifying whether the copy of Windows on the Virtual PC was genuine it concluded it wasn’t.
He’s got a screenshot as proof..
Then, as a final funny thought, this worked example from Sterling W. “Chip” Camden derived from a theory by Shelley that “Every spec should be written like it was going to be read by VB developers.”:
See Dick and Jane play tag.
See Dick forget his namespace prefix.
See Jane throw an exception.
Run, Dick, run!
🙂
To Each As They Deserve – A Good Example of Political Satire
John Howard to be deported after failing citizenship test
Category: News article
Topic: Politics
Author: Michael Ellerman
Year created: 2006
Overall rating: out of 5
Content rating: out of 5
You absolutely have to read Michael Ellerman’s satirical news article “John Howard to be deported after failing citizenship test“.
I hereby lend it any Google foo that I have..
Tags: citizenship deported failing howard john+howard citizenship+test australian+citizenship michael+ellerman satirical satire liberal+party
A New Way of Coming Unstuck
This wonderful email was sent to me by a great friend of mine, Graham, telling the tale of unexpected happenings on a late night drive home.
For overseas readers : ute = utility = pickup truck.
Some Things Never Change
LWN has a pre-test of Emacs 22 in which Jon Corbet confirms that all is well with the world when he writes:
The addition of an IRC client would have been useful, but this is Emacs, so they added two different ones.
It’s nice to know that in a time of chaos there is a touchstone that you can rely on for consistency. 🙂
Investing in Intelligence
Apparently “governments are spending more money on intelligence” after September 11th.
Strange that I’ve not noticed any spontaneous outbreaks of common sense from them recently..
How To Kill All ADSL In Victoria
An organisation was doing their annual generator load test, when this happened:
It appears our upsteam ADSL telco has had a failure of an Ethernet switch. This has dropped ALL adsl circuits in Victora. (sic)
Just under an hour later it became obvious why:
It appears that the switch in question had not been connected to the essential power circuit. The telco’s switch had its power restored when the generator test was completed. We will working with the telco to get the switch transferred from mains to essential power on Monday.
Their summary of the testing:
Besides losing all ADSL in Victora, the generator power test went fine. (sic)
Oddly enough I didn’t notice anything that day with our home ADSL, so somebody likes me..
FAA : Passengers Considered Harmful
From that ever reputable source of news, The Onion:
Under the proposed reforms, the FAA would institute a strict ban on adult passengers, passengers 18 and under, international travelers, and domestic customers. A battery of questions and ID checks will be used to determine whether an individual is a pilot, flight attendant, or federal security officer—the only humans who will be allowed to board an aircraft flying within or headed for the U.S.
Sounds like someone’s finally done a root cause analysis and come up with the obvious solution, a sensible policy from the US at last!
“Frankly, we’ve tried everything else,” Blakey said. “We’ve put up more metal detectors, searched carry-on luggage, and prohibited passengers from traveling with sharp objects. Yet passengers still somehow continue to find ways to breach security. Clearly, the passengers have to go.”
Via the ever good Mikal.
