Tuesday, June 08, 2004
New blog - kinda interesting :-)
Not necessarily work or youngster friendly but the real janelle has some interesting links, including this: Manhattan Timeformations.
Enjoy.
Things You Shouldn't Do To Baby Chickens
Enjoy.
Title says it all..... Things You Shouldn't Do To Baby Chickens.
Telegnosis VGA Over USB 2.0
Unbelievably
cool, even if I did invent it in my head about 4 years ago (coincidentally around the same time I started supporting laptops being used in the office regularly) and never quite got round to patenting it. I wish them all the best and if they can manage to compress 1280x1024 down it in the next generation I will buy all they can sell :-)
This made me shudder
cool, even if I did invent it in my head about 4 years ago (coincidentally around the same time I started supporting laptops being used in the office regularly) and never quite got round to patenting it. I wish them all the best and if they can manage to compress 1280x1024 down it in the next generation I will buy all they can sell :-)
There is something indescribably creepy about these mother and child extension cords linked from Gizmodo. Personally I have no interest in "cute" cords if this is the price you pay.....
What Can Bagels Teach Us about Crime?
Tokyo Times: Cross dressing criminal
So normally you get yourself a womans stocking, cut off one leg, ram it over head then get your trusty shotgun, enter the bank, and yell - "Everybody be cool this is a robbery. Any of you *&@#(*&#$ ()$#$ move and I'll execute every )(@#$#(*$ last one of ya."
However, apparantley some people find the stocking step of this just a little too much and thus take the womens clothing thing just a little too far....
Odd and somewhat confused robber.
However, apparantley some people find the stocking step of this just a little too much and thus take the womens clothing thing just a little too far....
Yahoo! odd news with an article on a guilty bank robber who robbed a bank, then broke in to give most of the money back....
Strange.
I'll admit it. Im desperate. No postable material in days
Strange.
It is a well known phenomena that the stock markets are generally slow around summer. Even now (a little early admittedly) one of my main support roles is to go round the trading floor poking sleeping traders and trying to prod them into making profits one way or another.
However, what I didnt realise is the slow down of all semi-interesting tech news over the same period. In desperation I post you a new link to an old favourite - "the bastard operator from hell". This week: BOFH: Wearing the graphite polymer wobbly shoe (thanks to El Reg). Before you ask, sysadmins arent all this bad. I am much worse for example :-)
Enjoy.
However, what I didnt realise is the slow down of all semi-interesting tech news over the same period. In desperation I post you a new link to an old favourite - "the bastard operator from hell". This week: BOFH: Wearing the graphite polymer wobbly shoe (thanks to El Reg). Before you ask, sysadmins arent all this bad. I am much worse for example :-)
Enjoy.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
I Wish to Register a Complaint
Back in the day, the world was innocent and pure. When you bought something with a credit card, you got a receipt and the whole credit card number was printed on that receipt. And it was good.
Then one day, people noticed that if you got your hands on an old receipt, then you had all the information you needed to buy stuff on someone else's account. And it was bad.
So, receipts started being printed showing only the last 4 digits of the account number. And it was good, and the people could distinguish between their handful of credit cards because they had unique 4-digit suffixes, and the crooks could not get the people's credit card numbers from the receipts.
Now, recently, I've noticed that some of my credit card receipts now show the first 12 digits, and blank out the final four digits. Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick what the heck is wrong with you people?!? Not only does this give the bad guys enough information to steal my credit card numbers with 2 receipts, but it also completely breaks my informal method of figuring out which credit card a receipt belongs to by looking at the final 4 digits. Who came up with this idea? Why haven't they been shot yet?
Ahem, sorry. Later I'll post a review of a couple of cheesecake PS2 games I brought back from Japan to make it up to you.
PowerSkip - or the quickest most bouncy way to die ever
Then one day, people noticed that if you got your hands on an old receipt, then you had all the information you needed to buy stuff on someone else's account. And it was bad.
So, receipts started being printed showing only the last 4 digits of the account number. And it was good, and the people could distinguish between their handful of credit cards because they had unique 4-digit suffixes, and the crooks could not get the people's credit card numbers from the receipts.
Now, recently, I've noticed that some of my credit card receipts now show the first 12 digits, and blank out the final four digits. Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick what the heck is wrong with you people?!? Not only does this give the bad guys enough information to steal my credit card numbers with 2 receipts, but it also completely breaks my informal method of figuring out which credit card a receipt belongs to by looking at the final 4 digits. Who came up with this idea? Why haven't they been shot yet?
Ahem, sorry. Later I'll post a review of a couple of cheesecake PS2 games I brought back from Japan to make it up to you.
PowerSkip'ing - I dont even know what to say. Try out the movies to prove to yourself it isnt a hoax. Personally I am looking forward to dieing in bed so I wont be trying this in Central Park anytime soon. For the rest of you adrenaline junkies - enjoy.
