Sat 1st March 2008
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What?? Again?? That's right fans, level 58 has arrived.
Now heading over to Ironforge for further Warlock training, then all the way back over to Winterspring to finish off questing over there.
That's all for now ;) |
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Fri 29th February 2008
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Level 57 has arrived.
Still in the Western Plaguelands at the moment but just about done really. Once I get really bored here I'll head back over to Winterspring and finish off there.
Hopefully, by that time, I'll be a high enough level to head over to Hellfire Peninsula and start kicking some butt over there.
That is all for now ;) |
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Thu 28th February 2008
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When my nephew got a Playstation 3 for christmas, I couldn't wait to get over there and endulge in an online rampage on Resistance: Fall of Man. Since then, every weekend I mention that perhaps we should go and visit the in-laws, purely so I can get a go on Call of Duty 4. I'll arrive at their house, grunt a few words of greeting to whoever crosses my path on the way to the games room, then sit down until it's time to leave, playstation controller firmly welded to my hands.
Now, I think this is probably the natural reaction to any rational non-playstation 3 owning person. However, please welcome astrophysicist Guarav Khanna.
Guarav has no time or space for games, for he has managed to accumulate a massive 16 of Sony's Playstation 3, and linked them all together. He calls it a 'gravity grid' and has it setup to simulate the activity of black holes for the Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts.
In order to run his simulations, Guarev installed Linux on all of the machines. Because of the architecture of the Playstation 3's cell chip, each machine is several times more effective than even the most powerful desktop PC's available today. It can even be compared to as many as 25 nodes on an IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer.
Anyway, read more over at Khanna's project site. |
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Wed 27th February 2008
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Hello fans!
I have re-jigged my website to include mod_rewrite. I saw a lot of sites using it so decided to learn it and apply it to my site.
What's mod_rewrite I hear you say? Well, it can be used for several purposes but I have implemented it here to change long or cumbersome URL's into nice easily readable URL's.
For example, click on the Portfolio or Contact links above and instead of pointing to portfolio.php or contact.php they simply point to /portfolio/ and /contact/. For a more advanced example, click the Permalink link for this article and look at the address bar.
Interested in learning mod_rewrite yourself? I found this beginners article very helpful, as well as this more advanced example. |
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Tue 26th February 2008
Filed under: Gaming |
That's right fans, I have just reached level 56!
I'm over in the Western Plaguelands at the moment and will probably stay and finish questing here seeing as I made the insanely long trip all the way from Winterspring.
Before I start any more of that crazy questing lark however, I'll head to Ironforge and get me some well earned Warlock training. Then I'll head to the Auction House and blow all my gold on some useless trinkets and cheap weaponry. |
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Tue 26th February 2008
Filed under: Humour |
The Radio Times have published a list of the top 25 put-downs in TV history, chosen from both UK and US programs.
Here they are in all their non-televisual, written word, you really need to see it rather than read it glory.
Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: "Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmm? Or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn't have time to perm your ears?"
Mrs Merton - The Mrs Merton Show. To Debbie McGee: "So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"
Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder II. To Lord Percy: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?"
Roseanne Conner - Roseanne. To husband Dan: "Your idea of romance is popping the can away from my face."
Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted. "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!"
Carla - Cheers. Cliff: "I'm ashamed God made me a man." Carla: "I don't think God's doing a lot of bragging about it either."
Patsy Stone - Absolutely Fabulous. "One more facelift on this one and she'll have a beard."
Jim Royle - The Royle Family. Nana: "Is this hat too far forward?" Jim: "No. We can still see your face."
Malcolm Tucker - The Thick Of It. To a junior minister: "All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!"
Statler and Waldorf - The Muppet Show. Statler: "Wake up, you old fool, you slept through the show." Waldorf: "Who's a fool? You watched it."
Inspector Monkfish - The Fast Show. To a bereaved woman: "I realise this must be a very difficult time for you, so put your knickers on and go and make me a cup of tea."
No Offence - The Fast Show. "I notice you're not wearing a wedding ring which, given your age, means you're divorced or a lesbian."
Rupert Rigsby - Rising Damp. To lodger Alan, who complains his room is too cold to study in: "The only thing you study is your navel. You even shave lying down."
Nan - The Catherine Tate Show. Describing an encounter with an overweight hospital volunteer: "She said to me last time, 'You look bored, Mrs Taylor. I've got three words for you: Barbara Taylor Bradford.' So I said, 'Yeah? I've got three words for you too: calorie controlled diet."'
The Professor - The Mary Whitehouse Experience. "I have here a copy of your book, Origins of the Crimean War. It smells of poo." "That's because it's been inside your mum's bra."
Alf Garnett - Till Death Us Do Part. "You Scouse git!"
Alexis Carrington - Dynasty. "I'm glad to see your father had your teeth fixed - if not your mouth."
JR Ewing - Dallas. "Ray never was comfortable eating with the family - we do use knives and forks."
Dr Perry Cox - Scrubs. Dr Elliot Reid: "I don't think you understand the severity of the situation here. I am dangerously close to giving up men altogether." Dr Cox: "Then on behalf of men everywhere - and I do mean everywhere, including the ones in little mud huts - let me be the first to say thanks and hallelujah."
Dr Gregory House - House. "You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to stop thinking."
Gary Strang - Men Behaving Badly. "Let's face it, Tony, the only way you're gonna be in there is if you're both marooned on a desert island and she eats a poisonous berry or a nut which makes her temporarily deaf, dumb, stupid, forgetful and desperate for sex."
Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. "Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence."
Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm. "Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."
Sam Tyler - Life On Mars. To Gene Hunt: "I think you've forgotten who you're talking to." Sam: "An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding?"
Captain Mainwaring - Dad's Army. "You stupid boy!" |
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Sun 24th February 2008
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Some say his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight, and that on really warm days, he sheds his skin like a snake. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Some say he once, preposterously, had an affair with John Prescott, and that he has a tattoo of Buzz Aldrin on his thigh. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Some say he has a digital face, and that his skin has the texture of a dolphin. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Some say he was raised by wolves, and that if given an important job to do, he'll skive off and play croquet. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Some say his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has named every single blade of grass surrounding the Top Gear test track. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Some say he does not see like humans do, instead he sees numbers in green scrolling down, and that his brain is a Satellite navigation system. All we know is, he's called The Stig.
Come on, someone must know who he is! Take a look at the photo's above which were taken in London the other day. The flash has managed to penetrate the black visor so some of the face is visible.
Anyone wanna hazard a guess? Anyone recognise those eyes? Come on......
Full story over at the Autotrader. |
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Sun 24th February 2008
Filed under: Gaming |
I've been busy this week working on www.digitalis.org.uk so haven't had much time for World of Warcraft.
Anyway, had a quick go today and managed to level up to level 55. I'm questing in Winterspring and will probably finish all the quests here before heading back to the Eastern Kingdoms.
Anyhoo, that's all for now ;) |
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Tue 19th February 2008
Filed under: Gaming |
Level 54 has just arrived! Running out of quests to do which are easy at my level. Will probably head over to Felwood and do some quests there.
Still a little bit too low a level for the Western Plaguelands.
Once I get to 55, I'll definitely head back to the Western Plaguelands, then not long until I'm off to the Hellfire Peninsula. |
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Tue 19th February 2008
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Just the other day in the river Witham in Lincolnshire, Licolnshire based angler Andy Alder managed to land the most mentally unhinged of all fish - a Snakehead.
Here's a picture of the psycho killer fishy wishy.
Andy said “It had a gob full of razor-sharp teeth. To be honest it looked terrifying.”
Apparently, these crazy fish originate from south-east Asia and eat anything that gets in their way and can even kill humans - being able to live out of water for up to 4 days.
Full story at the Sun, where the crack news team have named him "Sid Fishious" - hilarious. For a more educated view on the Snakehead, visit Wikipedia. |
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