Sep
29
2005
months back google announced that they were cataloguing a large swath of video content, hosted by them with vague content requirements.
it’s online in a beta format now, but no one is quite sure what the goal of the project is, and there is little if any accompanying info on the site. it requires no additional [...]
Sep
28
2005
just when you think you’ve seen it all…
and i quote
“having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask”
unfortunately it’s about squid, as much as it really sounds like something [...]
Sep
27
2005
getting strange calls on the phone? calls from strange area codes?
apparently we’re not alone. people all over canada and the US are receiving phone calls from 179-336-0280, a number that seems to be linked to a VOIP (voice over internet) account for a company allegedly commiting telephone fraud.
they are using a VOIP telephone account to [...]
Sep
27
2005
in big organizations it’s often way easier to say no to things, than to give any effort whatsoever to make change or evolve.
frequent quotes – “why change? why do work? it’s been that way all along. no ones ever done that before, why should we start? why should we be different?”
the scary part is that [...]
Sep
27
2005
living vicariously through your children – odd, especially if they are underachievers. but that would explain why they are just like you.
personally i’d rather live vicariously through something interesting – a porn-star for the day (talk about a front row seat on something you’d likely only need to experience for a day – good or [...]