* Posts by miika

19 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2007

Aussie laser-pointer dazzle attacks on airliners: Bad

miika
Coat

So if they ban lasers.

Then I guess everyone will move to super searchlights that plug into car lighters, the ones with the LEDs or something.

If they outlaw lasers, only outlaws will have lasers.

Sorry, had to say it.

Need a new duster? Avoid Woolies

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Paris Hilton

Promises, promises

"Image coming soon" ...

Jedi to open Surrey academy

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Dead Vulture

@Evil Graham - Ducks

Oh come on, surely you know the way to find out rather than just *asking* if he's a witch!

Space shuttle launch knocked back again

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Coat

@Morely

Yes, you have a possibly unhealthy fixation on the shuttle having a well developed lower end?

*already has her coat and a bike standing by*

California court tilts towards mandating web accessibility

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Flame

Kudos

Nick Ryan ++

Chris C -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hopefully if you ever become disabled Chris, your words won't get Googled to haunt you.

So, what's the first rule of Reg Club?

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Where's the ...

... coat rack? Someone swiped it as soon as they saw me.

Oh well.

Thou shalt remember any Ass mentioned in TheReg is Ass with a period.

Thou shalt remember the immortal phrase "Pay no attention to that rootkit on your CD's".

Thou shalt also remember to click your heel three times, reciting "There's no OS but *IX, there's no OS but *IX".

Thou shalt always remember that the IT angle is you're using a computer to read it (pat pending).

Thous shalt always take every opportunity to remind people that "fanboys" is inaccurate, and even us girls agree Micro$queak sucks.

Addendum to previous rule: No, thou can't demand pictoral proof of the claimed female status of a poster pointing out that "fanboys" is inaccurate because girls too agree Micro$queak sucks just because you've never seen a female.

Thou shalt remember that the truth is always less interesting than the facts.

FBI redefines length of century

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I Always said ...

... that the Feds are way ahead of their time.

Human or Hobbit: it is all in the wrist

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Maybe ...

... they found the ancestors of Pat Robertson and the Kansas Board of Education? *They* have evolutionarily small brains, are of little stature, and generally cause disagreements when common sense seems to say otherwise too.

F1 secrets left on the web

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Commercial opportunity

Sounds like a great new niche market for Adobe to enter, release a version of the software for redacting that solves this :)

PC superstore refuses to take sack in hand

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P.T. Barnum ...

... should have been renamed PC World Barnum - they seem to have the same philosophy regarding birthrates.

The sad part? They're both right.

James Bond ditches the Aston Martin

miika

Ummm

@Alex:

"converts the solar death ray to a new electricity station using just a hair grip whilst hanging almost an inch off the ground without a safety harness"

Excuse me, but as a card carrying member of the "swoons and get all mushy at the idea of Richard Dean Anderson club", please stop trying to swipe MacGyver stuff for Bond.

*picks herself up after thinking of RDA and continues*

@Andy Gibson:

"Bond never been into space? What about "Moonraker"?"

That was Roger Moore, he doesn't count on account of the fact he's a total prat with all the acting ability of your average 3 week old ham sandwich.

No-one gives Bond a decent car, they know he's only going to wreck it. I think they're all Ford Escorts with creative bodywork attached.

Blind Judo master floors tobacco stealing skinhead

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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast anyone?

DNA strikes again?

Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric

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Re: @ Mark Scorah

"So what exactly _does_ a psi look like?"

A little like Walter Koenig ... "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father ..."

*forgot her hat*

miika

I guess it's my turn ...

Much as I hate to interject into this wonderful discussion, I noticed one glaring omission from the conversation, and felt it my solemn duty as one of those "old fogies" some commentators are gleefully waiting to die off (at 39!!!) to ask

Where's the IT angle?

*fetches her coat and runs from the horde of protractors about to be launched her way*

Colombian armed robber targets karate school

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@Kan & @CJ

According to popular rumour, 90 degrees from the horizontal.

+/- for variation

Pinwheel galaxy boasts edgy star formation

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Re: Does anyone know what happens when 2 black holes collide?

http://www.universetoday.com/2006/04/18/when-black-holes-merge/

Viking ship resurfaces under Merseyside boozer

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Call Guinness

This must be the only example of transport in the UK that was left longer than 2.7 minutes and didn't get clamped.

Genghis Khan didn't much like gays

miika

IT angle?

Oh come on, it's full of IT angles! It's all about code, reassembling it, and a parable on the necessity of proper document retention!

Society of Jesus calls missionaries to Second Life

miika

Temptation ...

"open to any form of erotic stimulation from prostitution to pedophilia."

In other words, the catholic church has figured out they have competition to the perks of the priesthood?