Bugger it! Linda Smith dies of ovarian cancer aged 48
A real loss to Britain.
Very sad really.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4759922.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4759968.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4760038.stm
28/Feb/2006
27/Feb/2006
macworld fuck-ups
snipurl.com/mz4r
via dig
no footage of steve jobs swearing like a mother-fucker, unfortunately…
perhaps it’s time apple employed jon for the role of product
demonstration…
26/Feb/2006
23/Feb/2006
US ex-M3 and the IOB
crystal ball gazing
snipurl.com/mvss
It’s a link to the google cache as the original is broken.
I found I had to kill the page mid-load as some of the links from the
cache copy are broken, but you can read the text.
What’s interesting about this? It’s the first attempt to analyse the
coincidence of the US M3-hiding with the IOB I’ve seen. The IOB is
almost invisible in the world media - try looking for it in google
news. Looks like it will hit the newsstands next week.
Here’s an alternate reading, that looks like it wasn’t translated
from French
www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?
fileid=20060223.F02&irec=3
A bit of nostalgic fun….
Sorry,
If you’re unfortunate enough to still be operating a Windoze box….
www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
For the necessaries.
A bit of nostalgic fun that works this time…..!
Right,
forget the foregoing for Mac which turned out to be system 9
and try this instead…..
homepage.mac.com/rgriff/zork.html
This does actually provide working virgins…..
A bit of nostalgic fun
The first game I ever played and in someways perhaps one of the best.
Enjoy…

[For speedy replies please include contact details in your
signature]
––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––––––––––––––––––––
–
jon@probability.tv – office:44 (0) 207 4996662 – mobile:44 (0)
781 8483219
Technical Support Manager – www.probability.tv – skype:
jon_knowles
––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––
Nooooooooo - Peep show cancelled!
Are C4 insane!!?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: talia hussain
> Date: 23 February 2006 12:11:47 GMT
> To: Jonathan Knowles
> Subject: Nooooooooo - Peep show cancelled!
>
> Save Peep Show!
> www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?peepshow&1
>
beenz.com
seeing that the labtastic site automatically hotlinked ‘beenz.com’
from my previous mail, i clicked
it to see where it goes.
a number of interesting things.
i) it’s for sale - yours for a snip at $300,000 !
ii) the ‘popular’ categories include’ work from home’ and ‘christian
singles’
but i think the most interesting is:
iii) ‘Technique Espionage Par Micro’ which certainly sounds like fun!
The Best Ringtone Ever?
Following on from Neil’s post, and with no apologies whatsoever to
those who’ve already experienced it (or my modesty), I present to you
what I feel is nothing less than The Best Ringtone Ever, certainly
one of my better ideas, AND possibly the most irritating ring tone
ever (for non-geeks anyway). It’ll certainly get you noticed by all
the right (wrong?) people…
www.leyton.org/download/uber_ringtone.mp3
A prize exists for those not already in the know guessing the
technical detail of what it is. I’m talking names here, not generics.
Answers on an SMTP data stream to the usual address please.
r.
my linux digital picture frame
finally got my digital picture frame working.
the laptop is an original 1999 beenz.com sony vaio, running at a
(then) blistering
speed of 233Mhz and sporting a colossal 32meg of ram. it has travelled
all across the world, and even ran the mapping software for our american
road-trip in 2001.
at some point the screen hinge broke and despite another glue-gun/
angle-bracket hack
it was never the same again.
however, i found a picture frame, for 12quid and took at it with a
pair of pliers
and gaffa tape. unfortunately by this point the bios battery was
shagged, and
it took a while before i found a place which would sell me 6 1.2v
nicad cells, which
i soldered together and lo, the mighty beast booted again.
it’s running damn-small linux and a wireless connection to a samba
share for
the actual photos.
it needs some tidying up at the back, but apart from that it’s
working like a dream 
i don’t normally propagate these sort of mails, but this one did make
me chuckle…
Begin forwarded message:
> Boys, I don’t how many of you shop at Tesco, but this may be useful
> to know.
>
> Just to you to warn you of something that happened to me, as I have
> become a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. This happened
> to me at Clevedon Tesco ’s and it could happen to you.
>
> Here’s how the scam works :
>
> Two seriously good-looking 20-year-old girls came over to my car as
> I was packing my shopping in the boot. They both start wiping my
> windscreen with a rag and windscreen wipe, with their breasts
> almost falling out of their skimpy t-shirts.
>
>
> It is impossible not to look. When I thanked them and offered them
> a tip, they said ‘No’ and instead ask me for a ride to a Bristol
> Tesco. I agreed and they got in the back seat of my car . On the
> way to the next Tesco, they start doing it with each other! Then
> one of them climbed over into the front seat and performed oral on
> me - bl**dy great! However, the other one stole my wallet, but I
> was in too much of a mess to notice until later.
>
>
> My wallet was stolen last Tuesday, Wednesday, twice on Thursday,
> again on Saturday, oh yeah and also yesterday. Also, I also can’t
> stop shopping at Tesco.
>
>
>
> Just be careful!!!
>
>
22/Feb/2006
seems reasonable to me…
a pre-nup to end all pre-nups…
www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0217062contract1.html
rich, will you be drawing up something similar before tieing the knot
with frances?
IndieFeed
Various podcasts of independent music (via Adam):
blindingflashes.blogs.com/indie_feed/
Subscribe to the podcast(s), hear new music, buy it on iTunes if you
like it. Everybody’s happy.
Anybody else got anything similar? I’m getting bored of my music
collection, and need inspiration, but can’t face the pathetic
rambling of DJ’s with time to fill or adverts to play.
r.