Archive for 'Amusements'
You know you work for an IT company when…
16:27 <blueGremlin> Any company that has an employee ‘pizza preferences’ page
on their wiki is off to a good start.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Amusements.
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Penny Flanagan
On a much lighter note, I should really blog about my favourite music artist - Penny Flanagan. She’s Australian and unfortunately hasn’t recorded for some time and sadly isn’t very well known. I heard an album at some friends many years ago and have been addicted ever since. I’ve only managed to [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Amusements, Life.
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Bizarre meeting of the week
The explanation was “it’s a team building thing - we are going to have a pointless meeting each month”. “Only rule is no work, no kids (that’s _your_ fault)”
You may have seen that I’m currently seeking an Espresso machine. Well there are few coffee fanatics at a customer and so obviously [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Amusements, Life.
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Why designers should ask engineers
An engineer would (I hope) have spotted the problem.
If you link three gears like this, they cannot turn.
Posted: February 15th, 2008 under Amusements.
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Ovum - oh dear
Amusing story of the week about Ovum. Google news still has the old incorrect version in the cache
I’d have sympathy, but a website where each paragraph is highlighted in red and underlined when your mouse goes over it deserves a miserable death. What were they thinking?
Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Amusements.
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Store Wars
I’ve just been watching a very amusing parody called Store Wars. Whilst personally I have no problems with genetically modified (within reason) or irradiated food, it’s still a very well done film - enough puns for everyone!
Posted: September 9th, 2005 under Amusements.
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Freaky
Have a look at this optical illusion. If you look at the cross, you can see a green dot circling, but the purple dots vanish.
Posted: August 10th, 2005 under Amusements.
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