Darren Beale

Why is this funny?

22. June 2007

Dramatic Chipmunk Best five second video on the internet http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764124 I dunno, but it makes me laugh.

Facebook gifts, what’s that all about then?

19. June 2007

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If you use Facebook then you’ve probably seen that it’s possible to send other people ‘gifts’. As far as I can tell if I want to do this then I get to PAY around $1 to send a PICTURE of some tat and a message to someone else. Eh? I can see how it’s a nice [...]

Abbey business banking review

20. February 2007

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I’ll keep this brief as I don’t want to spend any more time on Abbey than I need to but if you are considering switching to them because of their free business banking service my recommendation is that you: DO NOT USE ABBEY BUSINESS BANKING SERVICES it’s like a death by paper-cuts; many small and irritating things [...]

A petition worth signing

14. February 2007

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If you live in the UK then unless you’ve been sat in a hole for the past few weeks you’ll have been sent, umpteen times, a link to sign up to a petition telling The Government to stop being silly about tracking our cars blah, blah, blah. I have not bothered signing because IMO it’s such [...]

I hate Macs

5. February 2007

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I don’t, actually, but I have been mainly a PC user since the days of MS Dos and whilst I use Linux daily and own an old iMac (for testing, about to upgrade it to a Mac-mini), if asked I would definitely describe myself as a Windows user. With this mind I found this recent article [...]

Mail protocols have never been such fun

23. January 2007

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My kids are 4 on Saturday and they think that’s pretty special. They particularly like the fact that they get to have a party. With this in mind my own personal domestic goddess, Cathie, has been preparing for the party by getting odds and ends in, including music for it. For some reason no-one could understand why [...]

The Truth in Ad sales

5. January 2007

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I just watched this parody, funny-coz-it’s-true move, up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclYmVaORbM LOL

Optimus Prime come to life?

6. December 2006

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I stumbled across this thread just now and was blown away by the contents of the Link to a Hi-Res (70MB) Movie, Here’s a still: From the author (3DBlasphemy): Here is my last little project. It is about one of my favourite robots: Optimus Prime from the Transformers Gen 1. I have tried to make this robot as [...]

May The Source be with you

22. November 2006

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Web geekery: The Standardista Rebels have established a secret base on the remote domain of squidoo.com. The Dark Lord of the Kludge, Darth Gates has sent web crawlers in search of this base and its commander, Luke Veloso. While Luke is out browsing around the base, he is locked up and his browser is crashed by [...]

What is your personal spam index?

15. November 2006

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It’s easy to work out, take the formula (that I just made up): S / ( P x A ) = M Where: S = Total number of spam emails that you have P = Period that they were collected over A = Num of accounts collected from M = My spam index I use gmail so this calculation is easy: S = [...]

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Mail protocols have never been such fun

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Optimus Prime come to life?

May The Source be with you

What is your personal spam index?

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