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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]

Bank charges

December 12, 2006 - Banks - by admin - No Comments

Just been reading this. Quite interesting, as I’m sure we’ve all been affected at some point. If I get the time, I think I’ll sit down and go through my bank statements from the past few years. If I get the time that is…

More books

December 11, 2006 - Authors , Books , Technology - by admin - No Comments

I finally got around to going out to Waterstones to spend the book tokens Marsali got me for my birthday. Couldn’t help myself, and ended up going for Peter F Hamiltons A Quantum Murder and Iain M Banks Use of Weapons. I’m a huge fan of Peter Hamiltons science fiction […]

Comic effect

December 11, 2006 - Neds , Vehicles - by admin - 1 Comment

Is watching a nedmobile get pulled over by two foot patrol policemen who saw them floor it from the lights down the road up towards them. Bonus points for stupidity.