A lot of what I used to post was cribbed links from the internet. I stopped and moved it to a separate blog. Well as I'm consolidating, and all that guff, I'm going to move them back into the archives.
So the archives will (eventually) flood with those old things moved back from blogger.
You'll also start to see stuff I've found appearing as often as posts. If not more so...
Recently in ArchiveV2 Category
I've not been idle. Well, I have been, but there are circumstances and such stuff.
Anyway. Hosting upgraded, new stuff being loaded... migration to SQL... this Easter weekend will be busy. Normal(ish) service resumed when I've finished. I'll tell you, I promise.
I WANT!
Found here: NEXTWAVE: The Colouring Book:
My corporate overlords at Marvel have lost their minds.
Do you love Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.? An avid fan of coloring books? Boxers or briefs? Well, you’re in luck because you the reader get to be the colorist for a very special Variant issue of Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.
For Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #5, Marvel is releasing both a regular version as well as a Crayon Butchery Variant. Now you can not only read but COLOR Monica, the Captain, Boom Boom, Machine Man and all your favorite Nextwave characters.
I am compelled to mention, however, that I wanted to called it NEXTWAVE: EROTIC WAX PLAY or NEXTWAVE: THE MARVEL TRY-OUT BOOK FOR MENTAL PATIENTS.
No way! It can't be true *please note sarcasm* -
Found here: Conservatives 'still right wing':
The Conservative Party is still at its core "right wing and unpleasant", says Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell.
Found here: SPOILER - GALACTICA 3.X Starts Shooting Today!! And Katee Sackhoff Frakking HATES AICN!!:
Katee Sackhoff, who plays Kara -Starbuck' Thrace on -Battlestar...
Found here: Pope to visit Australia in 2008:
Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Australia in 2008 to take part in a Roman Catholic youth gathering, the Australian bishop organising the event says.
Found here: Timeline of everything from several movies:
Cory Doctorow:
The Movie Timeline is a timeline of all the events that occurred in many, many films, from 4,000,000 BC to 865,427,810 AD:
1703 Gulliver discovers Brobdingnag (Gulliver's Travels)
1704 October 10: Bouvet Island, Antarctica - Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)
1711 Gulliver marooned with the Houyhnhnms (Gulliver's Travels)
1712 Kildare, Ireland - Connor MacLeod and Duncan rescue a stagecoach from bandits, and Duncan meets Kate (Highlander: Endgame)
1715 Rob Roy escapes the defeat of the clans (Rob Roy The Highland Rogue)
A Predator gains a pistol while hunting in the Raonoke colony (Predator 2)
Ireland - Duncan kills Kate MacLeod (Highlander: Endgame)
1720 Pirate Jack Sparrow frees a governor's daughter in the hope of regaining the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
(via Joshua)
Found here: Aussie timezone switch borks Exchange Server:
Cory Doctorow:
Some Australian states have delayed their Daylight Savings time-switch by a week in order to accommodate the Commonwealth Games; however, this is causing chaos in corporate environments where the servers have no idea how to reconcile their time-zones and get everyone into the same meeting at the same time, correctly sort database entries by time, etc. It's only going to get worse next year, when some Canadian provinces change their Daylight Savings switch-dates to save electricity -- time-zones are already ad-hoc, and nearly random (see the update to this post for more); once they start getting arbitrarily changed from year to year, it becomes practically impossible to keep track of them
The hitch is that the Microsoft Exchange server that we all use in Australia for my company is located in Kuala Lumpur, who I'm guessing didn't know about this deviation from standard DST. As a result, our Outlook calendars are showing that Adelaide are out of DST when they aren't.
The upshot of this is that some of the meetings in my calendar are actually an hour earlier than they appear to be. But only the ones that were booked by folks in Adelaide, and only for this week. As a result some people are putting the time of the meeting in the subject line (note the Tuesday 11am meeting below marked as "10am Perth time").
(Thanks, Stewart!)
I saw some people last night. People I've not seen in a while.
Look... the UK has great writers, great culture and doesn't need to get embroiled in one-up-man-ship. Seriously, don't. The major player here is a tiny wet little island, where people batter their food. Just don't. Look at how much you've done with so little... be proud, but do so quietly. If you can do it, I'll even try to make the Saffa(s) shut up. Promise.
Having said this, I am fiercely Australian, and after 8 years of raving about my country (especially when it comes to sport) we started loosing things here and there... so I learnt to stop being annoying... giving me a year or so of quiet nodding.
So you UK lot can do the same.
Especially now. Someone taunted me about the Commonwealth Games last night.
That is fucking stupid.
Apparently if you add up the UK medals they beat Australia. Ha!
Honestly? This feels like a cheating way... I might have retaliated by saying something stupid like "then divide by population" or something, but that's the stupid one-up-man-ship stuff coming out (sorry, sorry) but there was beer, and the games are stupid anyway.
What I should have said was LEARN TO COUNT YOU SOFT POMMY FUCK.
Today:
Australia 75 Gold 61 Silver 58 Bronze 194 Total
England 28 Gold 35 Silver 29 Bronze 92 Total
Scotland 10 Gold 7 Silver 11 Bronze 28 Total
Wales 3 Gold 4 Silver 10 Bronze 17 Total
Northern Ireland 0 Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total (ought to just give it back mate)
UK Total 43 Gold 46 Silver 50 Bronze 139 Total
Now divide that figure, you flaming galah.
[posted with ecto]
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