Posts by Code Monkey

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

Re: jelly!!!!

I'll swap you my jelly for your macaroni

Re: Council in cahoots?

If she can convince council officials to make a complete arse of themselves to raise £21k for charity, she's clearly a genius.

Re: Salaries

"Is that how they do these? I thought they were prepared more centrally and just shipped out and served."

Possibly in cities. Possibly not somewhere as rural as Argyll.

Scots council: 9-yr-old lunch blogger was causing 'distress and harm'

Re: Oh wow

Their efforts to portray themselves as the victim are hilarious.

May 2012 was second warmest on record. The warmest? 2010

Re: For those who need reminding...

How about we change it to "weather where you are != global climate" then?

Asteroid zips past Earth

Re: "at about 20:00AM this morning"

"Australian time, understandable confusion for them, they are on the other side of the world."

... and upside down

Girl Geek Dinner lady: The IT Crowd is putting schoolgirls off tech

@Ben Tasker (was Re: Sexist joke alert)

You are Richmond and I claim my £5

Over 40 Magnifier

Nasal hair

Thanks for not providing that particular sample shot. Seriously.

New UK curriculum ramps up lessons in SPAAAACE

PLEASE STOP!

HTC handsets hit by grip of death

Re: Samsung too

Oh piss. That's not good news at all. I'll stick with my HTC Desire for now.

Volkswagen Up!

Re: Very tempted

He said he was 5'11" (aka 1.83m - or more correctly 13.1 linguine).

Raspberry Pi safe and warm in TINY Lego fortress

Re: Did the Lego cost more than the Pi?

I'd guess at £7-£8 new.

Re: for those "nanny's" who want everything "non-plastic" & child friendly

Raspberry Pi Pie.

AMD palms PCs with LiveBox miniature desktop

Re: Cool!

As long as you've a second cupbaord for all the power bricks ...

Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels

Re: Lets hang fire for a moment

While I agree on the every other rule, it won't stop me pointing and laughing.

Universe has more hydrogen than we thought

Re: What about the gaps between galaxies?

Maybe a wallaby

Re: @new weight unit

Much as I love brown session ale (it's my favourite kind) I'd always assumed it was a nice light ale like Enville or HPA.

Jeremy Hunt 'sympathetic' to Murdoch's BSkyB bid

Re: Is it just me.......

I'm told they pronounced it correctly on 6music this morning

Panasonic DMC-GX1 compact system camera

[rolleyes] Not everyone wants to lug a DSLR around.

Facebook ninjas scale wall, pluck iPhone techies from Apple's garden

Facebook smartphone

Unless something radical's changed in the few weeks since I unfriended Facebook, they should start by making an app for existing smartphones that doesn't suck balls. Just my 2p.

LOHAN sucks 27 inches

Re: "Jubilee clips"

I always read that as Jubblie clips.

Ignore me - on with the boffinry!

Greene King pubs to offer free beer Wi-Fi

Re: Greene King IPA?

Agreed. The beer's pish and their policy of buying decent breweries and turning their beer to pish is, well, pish as well.

VIA outs $49 Raspberry Pi-alike

Banana or Raspberry. Which is best?

If it does I hope they ship em quicker than Rasberry Pi - otherwise it'll just be a black smear of banana-smelling goo.

Review: Raspberry Pi

Re: "just Linux"

I expect at least some of the BSDs will be along shortly as well.

Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code

Re: Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8....

[guffaw] Coming from Microsoft is is hilarious.

Post-pub nosh deathmatch

Wigan Kebab/Pie Barm

Recipe's simple (pre-nosh lubrication is a given):

Take one pie

Slap it on a barm (a roll for you soft Southern pansies)

Bit of gravy.

Belter.

Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding

Re: Play

That's true, though having Amazon as your main competitor would knock any company's valuation.

Re: But what's it for?

... and I don't understand how all those buns and kittens add up to $1.5bn before anyone asks

Re: But what's it for?

Pictures of cakes and kittens as far as I can tell.

Txt-speak is a sign of humanity 4 U

Generation gap

The generation gap is an interesting one. Most people I tend to text use proper English - punctuation even. But after my niece taught my mum to text, so it took many years of moaning before she finally stopped using Teenage Gibberish (aka txtSpkLOL or whatever it's called).

A happy side effect is that having to use Proper English she sends me fewer texts.

Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones

Yup

Good weight and the hapless fools can console themselves with chips. Or a nice soup.

Mmmmm soup!

Don't buy a laptop in a carpark. It can't be that difficult can it?

UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job

"spousal roles"

What? Rumpo?

Compare The Market can't touch web filth extension - simples

Re: meerkat pr0n

Rule 34 [shudder]

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

Re: El Reg Alternative Units

Of course you are correct. Mea cupla.

May I offer you a 227.2 nanoPool of Blighty's Finest?

I won't be happy til I'm ordering a nice 0.3317 of a Bulgarian Aribag of beer.

Watchdog bites bar over 'offensive' Facebook ad

'name that font'

CUMic Sans?

Mine's the one with the crusty socks in the pocket.

Facebook ups IPO shares to $38, edges towards $104bn value

It's worth nowhere near its valuation no matter how many chunks the $100bn is split into.

Surely no one would be so stupid to pay so much for this MySpace in the making.

US dope farmer in Walmart rattlesnake chomp shock

Targetting the goth market then.

Yahoo! CEO! didn't! even! read! his! own! CV!

Well! That's! Settled! Then!

I can't see anyone having the slightest problem with this. I suggest we all move along and let this fine gentleman get on with running Yahoo!

Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM

Re: It works just fine for Apple

That's because Apple aren't restricting their users to IE.

Keep out of the Olympics' way, earn a haircut from TfL app

"it's just not a route-planning app" - just another load of tat with the word "Olympics" on it, then.

LOHAN Playmonaut jets off to Blighty

God speed you Playmonaut! You brave, brave little man.

[salutes]

Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete

Re: Standing 1.13m (3ft 8") tall and weighing 130kg (20st 4lbs)

Of much greater relevance is that they were 8 linguini tall and weighed 31 jubs (approx).

Minimammoths? Minmoths?

Come up with a name, boffins!

MP blasts 'ineffective' games regulation

By Vaz's logic, I should be a millionaire because I played Monopoly.

(Hint: I'm not)

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S III

Re: Fantastic phone

They'll be shipping one my way unless something very dramatic happens in the 'droid market ...

Telly is becoming moving wallpaper for constantly online Brits

It's in the eye of the pollee but I'd be a "neither agree nor disagree" as it's a stronger "meh" vote than "not sure".