labtastic

do the honours?

here’s the offending scenes you’ve read about……
gorillamask.net/gtasex.shtml

>After every flight, Qantas Airline pilots fill out a
form called a gripe
>sheet, which conveys to the mechanics problems
encountered with the
>aircraft during the flight that need repair or
correction.
>
>
>The Mechanics read and correct the problem, and then
respond in writing on
>the lower half of the form what remedial action was
taken, and the pilot
>reviews the gripe sheets before the next flight.
Never let it be said that
>ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humor.
>
>Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints
and problems as
>submitted by Qantas pilots and the solution as
recorded by Qantas
>maintenance engineers.
>
>By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has
never had an accident
>
>(P = The problem logged by the pilot.)
>(S = The solution and action taken by the engineers.)
>
>P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
>S: Almost replaced left inside main tire
>
>
>P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
>S: Auto-land not installed on this
>aircraft.
>
>
>P: Something loose in cockpit.
>S: Something tightened in cockpit.
>
>P: Dead bugs on
>windshield.

>S: Live bugs on
>backorder.
>
>P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200
feet per minute descent.
>S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
>
>P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
>S: Evidence removed.
>
>P: DE volume unbelievably loud.
>S: DE volume set to more believable level.
>
>P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
>S: That’s what they’re there for.
>
>P: IF inoperative.
>S: IF always inoperative in OFF mode.
>
>P: Suspected crack in windshield.
>S: Suspect you’re right.
>
>P: Number 3 engine missing.
>S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
>
>P: Aircraft handles funny.
>S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and
be serious.
>
>P: Target radar hums.
>S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
>
>P: Mouse in cockpit.
>S: Cat installed.
>
>P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds
like a midget Pounding
>on something with a hammer.
>S: Took hammer away from midget.
>

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just downloaded this:
www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20854
gives old[er] mac ibooks an powerbooks that nifty scrolling-via-
trackpad functionality.
very useful…

With UK tax returns due in a couple of days time, here’s some useful
reading if you’re worried you can’t find your P11D or somesuch:
www.rexswain.com/benford.html
In a nutshell: The number 1 appears more frequently in real data than
you might otherwise expect.
r.

www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/
Particularly like this one
www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/tony_bum_snort.asp

Dave

How cool is this?
Install iPodLinux, and iDoom, then play Half Life on an iPod Nano
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1867155040270429847
A Nano for fuck’s sake!!!!
Pete

www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Really.
One of Yahoo’s “Find of 2005″ winners as well.
Woo!
r.

Ladies and Gents,
I’ve just spent the last hour or two hacking the PHP behind
labtastic.org: A first for me, and I can confirm that the level of
hackery is “severe”.
But I’ve managed – I think – to tweak the Wordpress Postie plugin to
properly identify replies to e-mails, and then post them as a comment
rather than a new entry (something I’ve, personally, wanted for ages).
So, in way of a test, could you reply to this e-mail and then (after
a minute or two), check www.labtastic.org/weblog to see if
your response has made it onto the Comments page, or as a new post.
It’s probably going to go horribly wrong, but this is the only way I
can test it.
Note it only looks back 21 days at the moment, to prevent it doing
the database too many disservices, and it doesn’t do anything to
associate you with the post unless you put your name at the end of
the e-mail (It strips out sigs etc already).
r.
ps. testing, testing, 1-2-3

Have any of you guys seen the crap in Selfridges’ window?
“… how the act of shopping has become a way of communicating
internationally.”
Cancel those Mandarin lessons and go buy a nice frock.

www.tuaw.com/2006/01/25/tuaw-tip-put-your-hard-disk-in-your-dock
Works for other folders too.
Bloody obvious when you think about it. Damnable handy too.
r.

www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/24/boo_com/
Good grief. First Napster, now this. What next?
Here’s where my thoughts led me:
www.khaaan.com/
Worried? I am.
r.

lychees
technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1694294,00.html

it’s all about respect, and providing fair and balanced
representation of
your constituents.
right, kids?

Mathematical Google Geekiness at its best:
www.steveratcliffe.me.uk/ahhhhhh/index.html
r.

You may have seen this:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm
A bit of investigation reveals these, seemingly unrelated, recent events:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627178.stm
www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/NEWS0102/601200374/1004/NEWS
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902990.html
www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2006/January/theuae_January452.xml&section=theuae&col=

combine these with a general malaise over global warming:

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0118_060118_right_whales.html
and you see the motives for this:
www.northernadvocate.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3669362&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

I expect them to launch their attack on London over the weekend…

It’s back as we all well know…..
Shock, horror…. people with a propensity for (or with actual)
mental illness diagnoses shouldn’t smoke cannabis.
I can think of another dozen things that such folk might be ill-
advised to do.
But because some of these selfish bastards insist on smoking pot and
getting off their heads they are simply ruining things for the rest
of us!
I mean I have been smoking cannabis on an almost daily basis since I
was fifteen.
I ask you, what fucker would dare question my sanity?

Rodent-eating snake falls for Hamster:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4627950.stm
Only in Japan, eh?
r.

This is pretty-damn cool!
www.andrewescobar.com/frontrow
It works like a dream, I just need to get my mobile to work as a
remote over bluetooth and I can pretend I just bought a new iMac!
Pete