Archive for January, 2008

Make fire with ice

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

This instructable shows you how to light a fire using a chunk of ice.

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Attempted Wordpress SQL injection attack?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

It seems there are some strange spam comments containing SQL code doing the rounds at the moment.

It isn’t easy being green… er, blue… er, grue

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Cool wikipedia article on colour differentiation in different languages.

Australia day long weekend redux

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Much thanks to Liz, Jason and G. for the games day at their place, even if I didn’t win Settlers. Walked Puggle to the end of the street to watch the fireworks. BOOM! Likewise thanks to Russell and Liz for cocktails, conversations and interesting company and the tour of their place and garden.This morning, cousin’s birthday at Kings Park Lotterywest Family area, which was very pleasant (and conveniently colocated with Stickybeaks Cafe to cater for the morning necessities), and has hopefully tired Puggle out enough he’ll actually have a nap.Now, a very nice cool breeze is blowing.

Google dropping Australian referrals to Adsense?

Friday, January 25th, 2008

If you’re an Aussie logging into your Google Adsense account you may see mention that they’re no longer going to pay you for referrals to the Adsense service as of end of January 2008 (presumably they’re still paying for the rest of Adsense ad clickthroughs :). The page the messge links to doesn’t seem to exist (at least when I tried it).

Torchwood Season 2

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Mmmm… Tasty.

Hug a writer day on 24th Jan

Monday, January 21st, 2008

R.I.P. Bobby Fischer

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

I saw in the paper that Bobby Fischer died the other day, still the holder of many chess records.

In May 1949, the six-year-old Fischer learned how to play chess from instructions found in a chess set that his sister bought at a candy store below their Brooklyn apartment.

Say it with Ikea

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Perth’s newly relocated Ikea store in Innaloo off the Cedric St freeway exit opens at 10am on Valentine’s Day, 14th February. Perfect for that someone special in your life.

Design Police

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Now thanks to Design Police you can print out your own labels to mark up poor publishing.

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