Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Take On Me

The funniest thing I have seen this week, by a longshot, is “Family Guy’s”:http://www.familyguy.com/ Chris taking on Morten ‘Take On Me’ Harket in the classic 80′s music video by Morten’s band “A-ha”:http://www.a-ha.com/. “Watch the clip from the latest episode”:http://www.spikedhumor.com/media/664/famguychris.wmv (Windows [...]


My Battlefield 2 tracker

Thanks to the all new “Battlefield2 Tracker”:http://www.bf2tracker.com site you can all see how badly I’m doing at this amazing game… What I really need is more time to play!


Battlefield 2 goes Gold!

“EA’s”:http://www.ea.com long awaited sequel to the Battlefield series, “Battlefield 2″:http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/, has “gone Gold”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_to_manufacturing. This means no more changes will be made between now and its official release to distributors and there are many rumours going around about the imminent demo [...]


Thanks for asking…

Every so often on my work PC I have this lovely “modal dialog”:http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oi=defmore&q=define:Modal+window popup telling me that new updates have been installed. It politely asks if I’d like to restart my computer, but will only accept ‘Yes’ for an answer… [...]


Ladies, cover your cleavage!

“NASA”:http://www.nasa.gov recently (actually, way back in August 2004!) made their satellite image viewing software, “World Wind”:http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/, available to the public under an “Open Source”:http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php license. Their aim is to maximise awareness, gain feedback on the software via peer review, support [...]


Wuffle: is there anything sweeter?

A few years back my good buddy Lindsay invented a word for something that up until that point was un-named and really badly needed a name. Many eons later I took it upon myself to enter this magical word, “_wuffle_”:http://wuffle.urbanup.com/812951, [...]


Saved

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m always losing time from having to retype stuff into “<textarea>’s”:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA on forms because i accidentally close a browser tab or slip and press the wrong key combination. Enter “Scribe”:http://prismicspiral.com/scribe/index.html, an [...]


Steamy office action

He’s young (well he was), he’s successful, he’s a fricken billionaire and yet still he wouldn’t get into the Viper Room for a variety of reasons. I have included two of those reasons below… Who would’ve thought it eh? Those [...]


Life after Half-Life 2

I guess “this is what you do”:http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12242476~mode=flat when you finish “Half-Life 2″:http://www.sierra.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=470 for the umteenth time. I haven’t even finished it once yet!


New BoTM website

This is kinda old news, but I recently setup “Mambo”:http://www.mamboserver.com/ on my “clan’s webserver”:http://www.clan-botm.com and besides a few hiccups here and there it’s a whole lot better than the original site. I’m already working on a new template for the [...]

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