A Day in Paradise

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In Pictures: Fantasy coffins

Some awesome coffin designs! The uterus is exceptionally wierd…

People are dying to get these!

ReplaceEm

Nice one here!

CNN.com – Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds – Jan 30, 2005

That’s a shitload of money to misplace! With $9,000,000,000 I could:
1. Buy an Second hand Aircraft Carrier — $8,000,000
2. Buy 30 MiGs — 9,000,000
3. Plenty of stuff at this bizarre bazaar

And have enough left to give $300 to each person in Iraq!

Democracy cannot be forced, but it can be bought!

PHP-soft.com Software solutions — Our products: SPAM

OK, here’s a live one! Not only spammers, but the creators of the spamming tools which are such a pain to bloggers and the internet in general.

They aren’t that bright — the screenshot of the spamming program shows them preparing a batch of blog spam, fake email address and all… of course it looks like they are based in the Ukraine so they don’t have much to worry about.

Look through the source of the home page for the word “sex” to see how low these guys are.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Family of faggot fans fly the flag

The family, including Lewis, 13, and Grace, 7, eat faggots twice a week, with mashed potato and mushy peas, and will be launching the awareness campaign on Tuesday at Liverpool University, followed by visits this week to Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham.

Don’t tell me… they have Spotted Dick for dessert!

Apple updates iMovie HD | CNET News.com

I was stuck with a very long URL from a C|net article…

http://news.com.com/No-cost+Skype+strikes+chord+with+businesses/2100-7352_3-5553053.html?part=rss&tag=5553053&subj=news.7352.5

I shortened it by removing the query string and got it down to:

http://news.com.com/No-cost+Skype+strikes+chord+with+businesses/2100-7352_3-5553053.html

Not too bad, but what’s with the URL keyword stuffing? Lets chuck that too!

http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5553053.html

Much better! Friggin Google Whores!

Fat Dutch Man – Funny guy dancing Ozone’s Dragostea Din Tei

I’ve had this one sent to me a couple times… probably only appreciated by the Europeans who have had to listen to the song all of last summer.

Horrific storm damage in Sweden (With Pic!)

You’ve got to see this one!

With all the news on TV lately about the extreme weather conditions affecting the East Coast of the US, the mud slides in the Middle East and South America, the flood that made it’s mark on Southern England, along with the dire predictions made by such films as The Day After Tomorrow, we shouldn’t forget that Sweden has its share of devastating weather too.

Embrash – More dumbass outsourcing

We bought a bed for the kids yesterday. It was the second time we went to the big “I-wanna-be-IKEA” store so choosing the bed took about 5 minutes. Buying the bed on the other hand took about 20 minutes.

The nice lady at the counter went over to the bed we wanted, wrote down (with a pen and paper) all the pieces we needed (it is one of those customize-your-bed beds), then went over to her computer and started tapping the numbers of the pieces into the computer.

After about 5 minutes of this she taps a few keys and then pulls out the receipt and starts copying off her computer monitor onto the paper. They didn’t have one of the pieces that we needed, so she had to get another form and fill that in as well. We had to sign that form and then she made a photocopy of it.

By this time I was wondering what decade I was living in.

Once she was done writing out the Declaration of Independance, she fumbled around in her drawer and pulled out a nice little round calculator with a flip top, and started doing the math.

Then she entered the numbers back into the computer.

Then came the part when we had to give her our banking information, which she wrote both on the paper and typed into the computer.

Finally we got our carbon copy (I haven’t thought of that word for at least a decade) of the receipt and went to the cash register to pay the first payment.

The clerk took our receipt and… yes, you guessed it… entered the information back into the computer.

This wasn’t a little mom and pop store, but a HUGE and major furniture outlet. I don’t know how many people they employ, but I am sure that I could cut it in half with a simple efficiency audit.

Times like these make me wish I was talking on the phone with a nice man in Bangalore!

SQLFormatter SQL editor formats SQL

No more messy SQL!

International PHP Magazine – Cutting-Edge Technologies for Web Professionals – News

Nice lineup of sessions for this year’s spring conference! A couple new faces as well!

Now all that’s left to wish for is a non-conflicting schedule — or live feed from each session so that we can participate in multiple sessions from the comfort of the bar!

Woman arrested for deleting ex’s game data

A WOMAN who was miffed that her boyfriend had left her, used his online user name and password to access an Internet game and delete his game data.

When the long term player of the online game Lineage found he had lost all his virtual weapons and clothes in the online raid he went to the police to have her arrested.

RAMMSTEIN :: News

We’re very happy to announce that the band Apocalyptica will be the support act for the Rammstein concerts in February 2005. Rammstein fans surely know the finnish band by their cover version of “Seemann”, that they recorded with Nina Hagen.

Tour dates here… so if anyone wants to send me a couple tickets… either Erfurt of Freiburg will do

BBC NEWS | UK | ‘I don’t like Monday 24 January’

So am I the only one who has a dentist appointment on the Worst Day of the Year?