iamcal.com Since May 2000

ntk pointed to the adobe reader speedup lets you remove all the dumb plugins from acrobat reader to make it load alot quicker. very useful if you seem to spend all your life waiting for the damn thing to open.

book crossing is a really nice idea and seems to be getting reasonable returns (20-25% of books are caught after being released according to their faq). if i had time i'd love to take part. maybe there's some way you could tie this into social networking?

urgh - fucking tube. ninety minutes to cross half of zone one is just stupid (it's what, 3 miles?). if i couldn't be smug with the fact that i only have six more commuting days left in this country (and at least one of them offpeak due to conconuk) then i'd be really pissed off. talking to a fellow communiting sysadmin while we wait for a train, i wonder how i manage to stand this. i guess you just get used to it and your frame of reference is blurred. now, with a new frame rapidly approaching, i can be a little more objective about current events. urgh. get me out of here.

i somehow missed this piece of genius when it was first posted by jones in january:

"The BBC is about to enter a period of scrutiny, examining it's mission and output in order to review whether it should keep that guaranteed income. So my proposal is for them to radically reassess their mission - working from the money back, and The Earth outward.

"The BBC should devote all their resources to conquering Space.

"The chairman of the BBC, Gavyn Davies should nominate Dr. Colin Pillinger as the next director-general, and announce that from the end of 2004 there will be no more TV, no more radio, no more internet services. All of the licence fee income will be ploughed into space exploration.

"2.5billion pounds a year is 4.55billion dollars at today's exchange rates. In one year, the newly rebranded BSC: British Space Command, will have outstripped Bush's recently-announced 5 year NASA budget increase."

i wonder if this was ofoto?

might be true: plastic surgery in the uk, including breast augmentation, is governed by the british association of plastic surgeons. or baps for short.

chips for lunch: if food stuffs were humans, chips would be your reasonably attractive friends who are great fun to be with. but who bitch about you behind your back and ultimately lead to your (social / health) demise.

textures you don't expect: a semi-frozen can of (diet, urgh) coke which expands rapidly when opened - not an explosion but just a gradual expansion as it flows from the top of the can all over your desk. drinks which have the consistency of jelly. wet, shiney floors which aren't slippy.

i love death is beautiful (cyclic, symmetric, depressing), if a bit of a large download.

the world needs more magic eye porn