What do we want?
Bonnie Tyler lyrics.
When do we want them?
Every now and then...
Posts by 2FishInATank
93 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jan 2008
Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV
Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit shuts down under gag order
Fraudster gets ten years after selling fake 'ionic charge' bomb detectors
That Osbo bloke - he's on your Twitters. 'What a c**k'
Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story
Wednesday 13th March 2013 22:24 GMT
Re: These were great
LOAD * "m";1;"<program name>"
I set up little menus to be able to load one of two or three games off each cartridge.
The trick of repeatedly formatting the cartridge to get the maximum capacity out of them - I'm sure I had some which had a capacity of 99KB.
Now I need to dig into boxes and find them...
Curiosity succeeds – Mars was wet enough for life!
Ten serious sci-fi films for the sentient fan
The universe speaks: 'It's time to get off your rock!'
Archaeologists uncover 'Unicorn's lair'
Half of us have old phones STUFFED in our drawers
Girlfriend 'tried to MURDER ME with her AMPLE BREASTS'
Swedish woman cuffed for sex with skeleton SHOCKER
April Fools Day's Finest
Middle England chokes on Nice Baps
Winamp advises forum password reset after mystery hack
Gov report urges total consumer contract law overhaul
Linux life savers for paranoid penguins
Apple to lead fanbois 'Back to the Mac'
Ubuntu's iTunes jumps to Windows and Android
Google menaces penguins with Street View Antarctica
Van driver follows satnav up goat-track, gets stuck on mountain
Police issue lettuce e-fit
Warner Bros flogs Nikita on iTunes
Apple issues moral regulations apps dev guide
Ten... Wireless Headphones
Inmate-frying microwave pain blaster turret installed in US jail
Microsoft Windows glider crashes
Tuesday 24th August 2010 11:47 GMT 
Sometimes...
Sometimes there's just not enough WTF? in the world....
Lycra-clad Power Ranger dancers. Check.
Gobsmackingly bad attempt to MS-ify an aging club tune. Check.
'Flying' machine which appeared to be missing any obvious lift vs mass advantage. Check.
People surprised when it plummeted. Check.
Perseid meteors 'thrill star-gazers'
CEOP claims success for Facebook 'panic button'
Serpent imprisons rattled Yorkshire family
Possibly the world's most pointless review
Friday 23rd July 2010 23:54 GMT
Further news from the chair war trenches
As mentioned by AC 16:55, Benchmark Reviews have issued a DMCA takedown notice against the page linked to in the article.
However, as is traditional there's a nascent Streisand effect on the rise....
The original critic's homepage is at www.worldofstu.co.uk where one can find a forum which has a thread about this whole palava here: http://s2.zetaboards.com/worldofstuart/topic/5093413/1/
The long and the short of it is that the original page is on the way to being restored, and http://wosblog.wordpress.com/ is currently up and running.
There's also a metafilter article about it here:http://www.metafilter.com/93993/Corruption-in-the-chair-world
Apologies to our dear moderatrix for the many links to other sites, but it is interesting* to see what lengths Benchmark Reviews are going to in an attempt to silence and remove from the interwibble someone who is making a criticism of their 'review'.
* - for specific values of 'interesting'....
Friday 23rd July 2010 16:31 GMT
Chair war censored?
Interesting to note that the 'eruption' link (http://wosblog.podgamer.com/2010/07/21/benchmark-reviews-busted-more-like/) now leads to an 'Account Suspended' page....
I suspect, from the timing and recent comments from a Benchmark Reviews writer then the following reply from the author, that Benchmark Reviews have really got their knickers in a twist about this.
The long and the short of it was that BR have published a fawning review of a $1200 chair which seems to be mainly copied from a press release, yet claimed to be independently authored and a critical review. The WoS article called them on this and pointed out that comments on the BR page which asked about this had been deleted, then his IP blocked.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=562&Itemid=58
Make your own mind up, but there are lots of phrases which are never used by human beings - only ever in press releases.
Movie, tech giants prep universal online media store
Oakland green lights 'industrial' marijuana cultivation
Wednesday 21st July 2010 21:03 GMT
Eh? WTF?
As the kids say - FAIL.
There is no way that a stoned individual would dispose of a pastie in an ATM, or indeed anywhere other than their own face.
I severely doubt that there is any way in which you could convince anyone who is stoned to go to the effort of sticking a traffic cone on a belisha beacon.
As for the fire hazard angle, I guess that's why we hear of so many stoners self-immolating on every nightly news broadcast.....no....wait....
What you seem to have done is attempt to tar marijuana users with the same brush as alcohol ABusers. Your logic is worthy of the Daily Mail but very few other places.
Street View's Wayne and Garth: The most excellent truth
All-in-One Inkjet Printers: Best Buys
Thursday 15th July 2010 11:48 GMT
this is a title
I recently bought a somewhat cheaper MFD - I went for a Brother MFC-255CW, although the printing element was the least of it's features for me. I only required a scanner and fax machine as I already have a laser for bulk/b&w work and a dye-sub for photo quality stuff.
I second AC's call - more info about the scanning capabilities would be useful.
As would knowing more about the print cartridges - I chose the Brother over Lexmark, Epson, Canon and HP models because it was the only one which had separate CMYK cartridges rather than a single one which would require replacement as soon as one colour ran out. It was also the only one whose cartridges were not chipped, meaning that I've got the option to re-fill them once they're empty.
Mobile broadband: not up to the job?
Secret ancient code, basis of all modern civilisation, cracked
Wednesday 30th June 2010 00:06 GMT
Works fine on 10.10 here...
It's always worked fine here, no matter which version of Opera, or which OS I use it on.
I'm even posting this from 10.10 on my old pc which I'm about to upgrade to 10.53...or maybe the 10.60 beta....hmmm...
Long term (since v4) Opera user, and I certainly don't notice any CSS related oddness on sites that I visit regularly....
Kim Jong-Il in radish inspection shocker
'Draw Mohammed' page removed from Facebook
YouTube saves dumb children from offensive content
Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy
Wednesday 9th December 2009 00:05 GMT
@Mr Mrr
It's a SCRaper for gOOGLE, geddit? ;)
The good bits of Google's search engine without the more disturbing periphery.....
http://www.scroogle.org/donatesc.html
I'm almost 100% certain that scroogle.com is unrelated with the .org....whether the dress is common, slutty or not in evidence whatsoever!
Pentagon world-sim tool making good progress, say profs
Sunday 29th November 2009 03:34 GMT 
To paraphrase an idea from Douglas Adams
"Indeed, groups among them might presumably decide - as part of their internal decision-making process - to develop a simulated world of their own."
There was another theory which suggested this had already happened.
Mat because I, for one, welcome our StOMA bearing overlords....
Write haiku, win home server
Friday 20th November 2009 12:01 GMT 
Pah! BeOS error messages FTW!
Stealing ideas from
The BeOS will not win you
any friends here Bill
Some particularly relevant NetPositive error messages:
Won't you please observe
A brief moment of silence
For the dead server?
First snow, then silence.
This expensive server dies
So beautifully.
Ephemeral site.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The server is down
Error reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
