Really disgusting things that you really hope never happen to you:
- seeing an insect crawling across the surface of your eyeball
- reaching for the mouthwash, and finding that the bottle is full of sediment
- being thrown up on, a lot
- being in the really stinky corridor in this one building I often work in
- disposing of a festering urine-soaked mattress
- treading in dog shit barefoot
I may add more later. Horribly, all but 2 and 3 have happened to me. No, no, I don’t want your sympathy, but if you ever feel you need web-hosting from Dreamhost, then go there from the button on the right of this page, since they reward me handsomely for referrals 
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Ocelots make loyal and wonderful pets,
and can be bought (in bulk) from
Iggy Pop’s Ocelot Shop Everybody knows that Apple is fast running out of cool feral cats after which to name its operating systems. The boys at Cupertino have already used Cheetah, Puma, Panther, Jaguar and now, Tiger. Lynx is a no-go, thanks to the Atari Lynx, likewise the Cougar, and the Leopard has a (completely unfounded, mind you) reputation as a dishonest, deceitful creature. The Lion too, whilst seeming an obvious choice for its power and lush mane, is far more a lumbering and idle beast than its feline relatives: not an association anyone wants made with their operating system.
It seems, therefore, that Apple has no choice but to call upon the humble ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) to fill this cat-shaped hole in its line-up. A lithe and agile predator it is also versatile, being able to both climb and swim, making it the ideal poster-boy (or possibly cat) for a modern OS.
In preparation for the announcement of OS 10.5 Ocelot I have made an ocelot desktop background and an avatar. I now await the WWDC to confirm my amazing prescience.
This is for Adeline, who has just upgraded from this, to one of these. As a Powerbook owner the door has now been opened for you to many exciting new experiences and opportunities! Now you can:
- beat people about the head with your computer
- get interesting burns when you forget why nobody calls them laptops anymore
- waste whole hours trying to get online from one of those new GNER trains
- be distracted from your work wherever you are!
- play a wide variety of porn files
- turn OS X’s shadows back on
- er…..
- and other things!
Enjoy your new Powerbook, I’ll come and molest it soon 
It seems the new Pope doesn’t like rock music. Now, I’m all for some nice steadfast, conservative opinions in the Vatican, but rock music? Here’s what he has to say on the matter:
“Rock”… is the expression of the elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a sometimes cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship.
I suppose, being a German, that blasmusik is more his bag.
Now, before anybody gets uptight about this entry’s title, it’s actually a reference to the new Gorillaz album, Demon Days that I have been listening to today. I’m pretty sure it’s not out yet, unless the release date got bought forward due to its leak onto various P2P networks. Regardless, my copy is obviously not all that kosher.
On first listen it was a bit “meh”, with Dirty Harry and Feel Good inc standing out as decent tunes, but after two or three plays it’s starting to grow on me as a whole. I especially love track 13, Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head.
Speaking of piracy, today engadget covered the now somewhat old story of the Mac OS 10.4 GM being leaked, possibly from the DVD-duplication factory in China, and were nice enough to link to a site carrying a torrent for the disc image. Indeed, they linked to the info page for the torrent, leaving those who followed the link all of about three clicks away from registering with the site and downloading the rich, succulent file for themselves. I’m sure Apple’s legal team will reward them for their fastidiousness in due time. Needless to say, I’m downloading it as I write this .
I really, really do.
I’ve been doing a load work on my mum’s site today. There have been successes, notably the sexy navigation tabs which are dynamically generated from the list of top-level pages. Importantly the tabs know which of them is being viewed for which I needed to edit the template-functions-post.php. Well, I basically got Allcorn to find the relevant file and the bit that needed editing. He was about to tell me exactly how to edit it too, but I worked it out all on my own just in time!
There have also been failures. You see the sidebar? Well, when you’re viewing the blog entries it lists the entry categories, and when you’re viewing pages it shows you the children of the current page, which is pretty sexy. The problem over which I have been scratching my pretty head is the honking great error that occurs when you’re viewing a page that has no children. Go on, try it. I’ve been all over the wordpress support forums and wiki, to no avail. I am left with two options: give up, or become a php guru and write a plugin to perform this onerous task.
Still, pretty sexy site, eh?
A N64… in the palm of your hand!
Now why didn’t Nintendo think of this?I realise I’m a bit late to the party in discovering Ben Heckendorn and his magical console-shrinking abilities, but you can bugger me blue if there’s anything cooler than the N64p.
I’ve emailled the guy, voicing my interest in a kit, since there’s no way I could make any sort of casing for it myself. I do, however, feel confident enough to rip apart my console and a 3rd-party LCD then stuff them into some sort of pre-fabricated casing. If anyone can think of a better reason to take my N64 apart then I’m all ears! Also, this neatly solves the whole PSP vs DS thingy that’s had me in such a quandary of late .
In other news, I’m supposed to be constructing some sort of “web-site” for my mother’s holistic healing endeavours. The domain’s all set up at holistichealinghelp.com and DreamHost claims to be busily installing Wordpress onto it, although it’s been a mite longer than the estimated ten minutes….
Now if only she’d get off her arse and give me some sort of layout design to work to, I’m not good with all this creativity nonsense.
