Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Safari for Windows

Safari is now available for the PC! I had a look at it today on one of my colleagues laptop. While its's supposed to be faster than all the other browsers he didn't seem to think so, but then again his laptop is rather slow!

So what is Apple trying to do? Is this a dangerous game they are playing? Or did they think, well if our code works on the Intel platform already its only a small change to make it work on the PC so why not? Or is apple going to start releasing more and more applications for the PC in time for them finally releasing their OS for normal Intel PC's and not just Apple only Intel PC's?

One can only wonder at what Apples ambitions are for the future but they could be a strong favorite for producing an alternative to Windows. Would Microsoft stop making MS Office for the Mac if that happened?

posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:45:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Saturday, June 09, 2007
Anger Management

This has got to be the most hilarious blog entry I have ever seen have a read

posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:34:49 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

Joost again

Okay I will admit I have become one of those "yuppies" who go on about Joost. I just had an excellent thought about it, why don't they come up with a version of Joost for the Wii console? Wouldn't that be great? I can already watch YouTube videos from my Wii console why not get Joost sorted on a Java applet?

posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:59:43 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

Update on the cat tracking device

If you are a regular reader of my blog you would probably have read a past post in my blog about a cat tracking device. First of all the device I used was not sold as a cat tracking device it was sold as a device you could use to find your keys or any other personal items. It could also be used to keep a tab on where young kids are and with some devices it could be used as a panic button for kids. I of course realized that I could probably reuse it to keep track of my two of my troublesome moggies Willow and Lucy. The reason I chose this device was that all the other cat tracking devices out there were quite expensive my friend Marzie however said she had seen some going for 1,000 Yen  which is roughly 5 pounds!, its a pity they don't have them over here I'm sure there would be a great market for them.

Anyway the devices were working fine and every time we had a cat go missing for a long period we would go out and find it. I must say you get some really odd looks from the neighbors when you have this little device beeping away the closer you get to the cat. Its almost like an episode of Aliens where they go around with the life detector devices and you expect a smiling alien to come out and eat you! But instead you have a curious moggie looking at you wondering how earth you found her and why a little blipping noise is coming from her collar. All was going fine until both cats we had the devices on started to let off little electronic fuzzy sounds quite randomly and I decided to remove the tags to investigate what was causing the problem. It appears that when the cats get the devices wet  they let off this electronic sound which I found seemed to be the only downfall of the device. I suppose they weren't really intended for being dragged through wet grass in the morning or being submerged in water when the cat misjudges jumping for a dragon fly and ends up in the pond.

Anyway allowing the device to dry off seems to solve the problem. Now I just have to try and get it back on the cat!

posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:57:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [1]

 Thursday, June 07, 2007
Cool site error messages
  • Something went wrong, its probably Dave's fault. It probably isn't but we always blame him!
  • I couldn't find the page you wanted, I'm like so sorry dude
  • I couldn't find your page, it probably wasn't very important anyway!
  • Something went wrong and its all your fault.
  • Sorry the hamster powering our server died
  • The servers depressed and isn't taking requests right now.
  • The servers busy playing ping pong
  • This is the washing machine the servers currently busy right now.
  • Its all gone horribly wrong, run for the hills!
  • Sorry our site is so slow, the hamster just isn't fast enough.
posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:26:19 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The new London Olympic Logo!

olympiclogo Well the new Olympic logo is...well.. is rather well it just is I suppose....not very good. Well that was my first impression of it and when I heard it cost £400,000 to create I wondered what new age design company was busy popping Champaign corks out there.

It makes you wonder if they spent £400,000 on a logo how much they would spend on say the Olympic cutlery! I have a strange feeling and I don't why (I'd love to be proved wrong) but I think the this Olympic games is going to go over budget.  

posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:54:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Monday, June 04, 2007
The garden

catAndGarden At last I have finally got around to doing the garden and its started looking a lot better now. Yes I took a picture with a token cat in there, little Lucy (in the picture) has a new past time, we call it spotting newts.

She spends hours just watching them in the pond and occasionally sticking her paws in to try and catch them (she never actually catches any). 

Recently we have found the insect population in our garden has started to decline with the constant snacking of our mogey's on the local wasps, bees, butterflies and any creepy crawlies....

posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 7:56:01 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Sunday, June 03, 2007
Silly Cats

willowandLucy I just wanted to make some things clear. While I do blog about cats occasionally I am by no means a cat person to be truthful I couldn't actually stand the little critters. However my wife was crazy about cats and even before we got married she convinced me that she had to get 2 cats. After some constant nagging and looking very depressed on her part I finally gave in and said we could get two kittens from one of my friends Owen who's cat Cuddles had just had a litter. The funny thing about cats is if you don't like them or show any interest in them they seem to want to be around you more.

One of the cats we called Willow (the grey one in the picture above) decided she was going to adopt me as her main human. This included sitting on top of me or near me at any opportunity, constantly mewing when I wasn't home before 7pm and occasionally using the carpet as a cat litter when I was even later. I had never had any animal attach itself like this to me and I hadn't even shown any interest in her. I suppose Willow started to grow on me and while I am watching TV she will quite often jump on my lap if I am not on my laptop and commence pummeling at which point I give in and start stroking her.

At the moment we now have 4 cats and every morning is filled with cats playing, they have this morning ritual which involves chasing one of the cats through the patio door around the garden, through the cat flap and around again. This appears to happen until the cat being chased is tackled to the ground then the one that attacked it becomes "it" and the whole games starts again filled with constant "meowing" excited grunts and jumping into the air every now and again. At about 11am they calm down and commence sleeping until about 2pm when a new games of "I hide in the box wait for you to come by and jump on you". Occasionally when they are in their frenzied play time they'll run over you in this game of "You're it!" sometimes claws dig in and you jump up chasing them all outside and locking them outside to play their game. In most cases they all hide away from you when one of them has done something bad and venture out later when they think you've forgotten.   

Okay I'll admit the little guys have grown on me, that doesn't mean I like them....does it?

posted on Sunday, June 03, 2007 2:14:04 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [1]

Eight Below

8below This film has been around for some time now however I can remember the first time my wife and I watched this film it was on a plane back from Zante where we had just had our honeymoon. I did something silly I broke the first rule about animals films, I actually watched it and what was worst I watched it in public.

And yes the story is about 8 dogs that had to be left behind when a huge snow storm starts in the arctic and there's not enough space to evacuate them on the evacuation plane. How the dogs survive by themselves and how their owner (Paul Walker) who was forced to leave them behind tries everything to get back and rescue them when everyone says they would have died by now.

There will be laughter there will be that strange feeling in your throat at the end and that stupid moment when you get some dust in your eyes and it makes your eyes water.

posted on Sunday, June 03, 2007 1:43:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Saturday, June 02, 2007
Swearing and British Kids

I was in the shop the other day when I heard a little girl say to her mother in the queue behind me.

"Why the f*ck can't I have that Jay's got one!"

I was quite shocked and waiting to hear the mothers response which was

"Well he's f*ckin older than you isn't he!"

At which point I raised by eyebrows and realized why the child actually spoke the way she did, it was believe it or not the parents fault. Its strange now a days I'm not saying I was never a kid that swore when I was younger but if I was ever caught by my parents I would either get a smack in the mouth or my mouth literally washed out with soap by my teachers. Swearing has become such a common part of life in some areas that its just part of regular conversation. Its shocking but it only takes one generation to introduce it as part of everyday conversation and its gets passed on. I suppose swearing which used to be something used when someone was very annoyed or angry doesn't seem to have that same effect anymore.

posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 5:30:38 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]

 Thursday, May 31, 2007
Windows Live Writer

I've just trying out a new blog writing tool by Microsoft called Windows Live Writer. I usually use Qumana however it doesn't allow you to add new categories to your blog however Windows Live Writer does. My only gripe with both products is the American English dictionary with no option for choosing any other type of dictionary. I am guessing these blogging tools are an American conspiracy to take over the world with their version of English :)

All in all nice tool guys just give us a choice of dictionaries please!

posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:48:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]