Month: December 2006

Window seat, aisle or rendition class?

December 14, 2006 - Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

I’ve just discoved the wonders that is Radio RTFM. An audio podcast from our friends at The Register. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

Free monitor

December 14, 2006 - Computers , Scotlug , Technology - by admin - No Comments

To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Free monitor Is anyone interested in a free 21″ Sony G500 monitor? It was great, and is a lovely flat screen CRT. http://lodge.glasgownet.com/~bagpuss/G500/ It has a slight glitch in that the picture has shifted an inch to the left, leaving it looking a compressed on the left, […]

Bed time?

December 13, 2006 - Cool things , Home , Technology - by admin - No Comments

One of Times Best Inventions of 2006 – the Floating Bed. What a fantastic idea 🙂

Dealing with users

December 13, 2006 - Computers , People , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

What better way to deal with users, than with your very own Taser Cannon? 30 laser targeted taser darts each carrying 110kV at 15kA. Alternatively, for the more brutal amongst you, there is the 200mph 2×4 Pitching Machine. There are videos available

AJAX Talk

December 12, 2006 - Computers , Friends , Scotlug , Technology - by admin - 1 Comment

I’ve finally gotten around to transcoding it down from 700Mb to a more manageable 47Mb. It’s the AJAX talk Lawrence gave at the November Scotlug meet. [coolplayer width=”480″ height=”380″ autoplay=”0″ loop=”0″ charset=”utf-8″ download=”1″ mediatype=””] AJAX AJAX talk [/coolplayer]