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Bold, a company that produces soap powder (to wash your clothes with), started advertising a “new premium range of luxuriously perfumed super sensory laundry products” several months ago. The television adverts tell us that we too could smell like an infusion of white lotus flower and diamond. I don’t get it. I’ve sniffed my jewellery;… read full entry »
You know you’re officially insane when you find yourself wandering around the garden in your slippers, clutching eggshells and a bag of cheap porridge oats, all the while screeching “I’ll get you, ya buggers”.
Cuil, apparently pronounced “cool”, is the hot topic in the tech/Internet industry at the moment. It’s a new search engine bragging about a bigger index than our beloved Google. I couldn’t possibly begin to second guess their claims because in truth I know bugger all about search engines. However, I do know that where Cuil… read full entry »
The big G has dropped me down 1 ‘position’ on all sites; although not surprising given the lack of useful updates of late.
If you’re running BellaBiblio and need the PHP5 Amazon patch for the Ajax functionality, it is now available for download.
Tess has done a write-up in the same vein as my Handling the Critics post called Handling the Pants Awards. It’s cute, and I literally laughed out loud, but it also makes a few serious points. Of course, the people who should read it probably never will, but that’s irrelevant. Incidentally, I’ve had a draft… read full entry »
I’ve added a short note about Cutenews on my Unsafe PHP Scripts page.
This is probably the most complicated thing I’ve ever had to work out in my entire life: /^MK([1-9]|1[0-5]|17|19|77) [0-9]{1,2}[A-Z]{1,2}$/i
I think I had a panic attack on the way home from work today. I’ve never felt anything like it in my entire life. I couldn’t breathe, and the harder I tried the worse it became. I had an overwhelming urge to cry but nothing came out. It was as if I was going to… read full entry »
The floodgates opened at 4pm GMT for those looking to buy .me domains; GoDaddy in fact crawling to a halt shortly after rendering checkout a gruelling 20-25 minute process. Unfortunately it seems that all dictionary words (e.g. “code.me”) were taken. I’m not sure if these have been reserved for auction or taken the second registration… read full entry »