Category Archives: Silly

Chilli attack

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The restaurant had been preparing Nam Prik Pao, a red-hot Thai dip which uses extra-hot chillies which are deliberately burnt. But the smell prompted several members of the public to call the emergency services.

Oops..

Todays interesting spellchecker suggestion(s)

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Courtesy of the spellchecker that the Kate editor is using under KDE:

Unknown word: OpenSolaris
Replace with: Epistolaries ((
Epistolaries are books that are written in the form of, or carried on by letters or correspondence. ))

Unknown word: Nexenta
Replace with: Exeunt

Unknown word: Namesys
Replace with: Nemesis

Umm, right, I think my spellchecker is biased.. 🙂

A Loony Thought on Flooding

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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 terms as ‘floodplain’, ‘coastal erosion’ and ‘exposed headland’. This will save time explaining why they have no house anymore after nature takes charge of the environment. In addition to this policy, building on floodplains in future will be restricted to large houseboats with recoiling tethers like dog leads. These houses will be able to float up with the floodwater and land safely again in the same place when the water subsides.

Wot no proof reading ?

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Vodafone spammed me recently with an SMS offer of free gift, so I took them up on it and found out I could pick from a selection of the usual magazine subscriptions, discount coupons, etc, but the one that took my fancy was to have a couple of trees planted by a conservation group somewhere in Australia (I presume).

Then the automatic email arrived to confirm it, saying:

Your chosen gift, Two tress planted on your behalf will be in your hands within the next two weeks.

So if a delivery driver turns up with two long pieces of hair to plant on me I’ll know it wasn’t just an unfortunately worded typo.. 😉

Oh the hard cheese of old England

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This is, er, cheesy.. but in a good way.. 🙂

Since www.cheddarvision.tv debuted in December, the Web site offering a live broadcast of a round slab of English cheddar cheese slowly maturing has had more than 1.2 million hits.

There is also a YouTube time lapse film of it maturing over the last 3 months.

It even has its own MySpace page where you can pledge allegiance to the Cheese (if you use MySpace). Where’s Les Barker when you need him ? 🙂

Book meme from Mark Greenaway

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Via Mark.

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
  5. Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
  6. Tag five other people to do the same.

Here we go..

The mainboard connector provides a standard PS/2 keyboard connector for attaching a PS/2 keyboard. You can plug a PS/2 keyboard directly into this connector. PS/2 Keyboard (6-pin Female)

That’s from the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX (“Dream Catalyst”) mainboard manual that happened to be sitting in front of me. Extra boring points for me I think!

People can work out themselves if they wish to be infected by this meme.. 🙂

Google Toilet ISP (beta) (Updated)

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Chalk up another great Google April Fool.. 🙂

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Google Toilet ISP - Going with the Flow

Google – turning the fear that the Internet is a sewer into reality. 🙂

Update: Google have another, which is Google Paper. This one found via Wikipedia’s list of April Fools for 2007.