Leela Soundboard

More Futurama soundboard fun with Leela [via Randy].

Entry 751, Wednesday, February 25th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Add A Comment

What To Do In March

While searching around for Pancake Day info I stumbled accross the ukstudentlife calendar of UK events and ideas. The design is fairly poor, but the content is superb. Trust students to know where the party's at. I'd forgotten about St. Guinness's day next month, but I've got it firmly imprinted in my diary now (see my St. Patricks photos from last year).

Entry 750, Wednesday, February 25th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Add A Comment

Professor Farnsworth Soundboard

Continuing my series of Futurama soundboards (also see: Bender, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp And Kiff) is Professor Farnsworth [a big thanks to Randy the talented soundboardist].

Entry 749, Wednesday, February 25th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comment(1)

Terra Realms

Even more point'n'click flash game adventure fun. Terra Realms seems a bit more difficult than Leo's Great Day since I didn't complete it in the first 10 minutes of play, and I now seem to be disorientated in a cave. Anyway, just how many of these things I play until part 2 of the Crimson Room arrives I don't know, but I haven't got bored of them yet.

Entry 748, Tuesday, February 24th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(50%) • Comments(35)

Leo's Great Day

Help Leo escape his buried home, as he has a very bad Monday, in this point'n'click adventure game. Kind of along the same lines as the Crimson Room, but not nearly as challenging. Cute graphics though.

Entry 747, Tuesday, February 24th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(59%) • Comments(26)

Celluloid Skyline

A photographic trip around the streets and history of film set New York.

Entry 746, Tuesday, February 24th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comment(1)

What To Rent

If you're like me you can visit Blockbuster, tour all the shelves, and emerge filmless, convinced that there are no 'good' films. What to rent is a free on-line service that matches films to your personality combined with your current mood - it even allows for the fact that sometimes you may want to watch a film that you wouldn't normally want to. No more indecision with my rentals.

Entry 745, Tuesday, February 24th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comment(1)

Crunch Time

Kill your work colleagues with a stapler. You know you want to.

Entry 744, Wednesday, February 18th 2004, Filed In Games
Rating(60%) • Comments(3)

Pancake Day

A quick check of the calendar reveals it's less than a week until Pancake Day. I'm off work next week so it's going to be a pancake-fest for me next Tuesday. I'm rubbing my tummy already...[thanks for the heads-up Preeti].

Entry 743, Wednesday, February 18th 2004, Filed In Diary
Comments(6)

When It Falls

Well strike me down - in an unprecedented move NTL my stuffy old ISP have shocked me with another link worthy of a mention. I'm quite honestly shocked to reveal that news of Zero 7's new album, When It Falls, was broken to me by ntlworld. Are they ahead of the game, or is it (I fear) that I'm massively out of touch? Christ it's less than 2 months until I'm 30. Help!!!

Entry 742, Wednesday, February 18th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comments(3)

Regular Expressions

If you don't know what a regular expression is look away now. They're easily the scariest looking computer code you could ever think of, with the possible exception of raw machine code, and they are far from "regular". If however you need to harness their power like I occasionally do, read on...

Today one of my fellow developers asked me if I knew the regular expression for a particlar match he wanted to do. I was just about to launch into an answer when I realised that I don't KNOW regular expressions at all, but simply re-use the same ones over and over again as I only ever need them for one or two specific purposes. I was too busy to try and look into it with him today, but what do you know, I get home today and randomly come across this site explaining all about this mysterious beast, including a nice specific bit about JavaScript.

Top of my to-do list is to now learn regular expression syntax properly. Of course my to-do list is notoriously nebulous so I probably won't be becoming an expert in the near future.

Entry 741, Wednesday, February 18th 2004, Filed In Stuff
Comment(1)

404 Maths

This 404 at arbitaryconstant could almost have been written for the fuddmeister. More disturbingly though it's provided me with conclusive proof that I've forgotten all my A-Level maths as I'm completely unable to confirm whether it's correct, which is made worse by the fact that I remember just enough to know it's not particularly difficult. Curse my old(ish) age.