404 Lab

The 404 research lab for those with a love of what happens when the page cannot be found.

Entry 270, Monday, April 7th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Ghosts of Albion

A large and spooky flash series from the BBC which I'm just watching my way through now - thanks to Wastrel Division for finding this. If spooky flash is your bag you'll also like Tramping Ground which is a lot shorter but spookier [my first post!].

Entry 269, Sunday, April 6th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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On The Box

UK TV listings - not that useful if you're not in the UK but damn handy if you are. I've been looking for a site like this with all the channels shown together for ages (I used one a while ago that just disappeared). I've not been watching too much TV lately but it's handy to be able to quickly find the things you do want to watch [Thanks to Ade].

Entry 266, Sunday, April 6th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Tequila!

Entry 265, Sunday, April 6th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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W

If the whole area of the alphabet between V and X gives you problems then you'll probably like this rant - Why I Hate The Letter W.

Entry 262, Friday, April 4th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Are You Going To Hell?

Apparently I'm not very evil. It's official. Who'd have thought it?

[Found at I am a Donut].

Entry 261, Friday, April 4th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Gizmodo

I tagged Gizmodo in the side bar (-->) a while back and have been checking the site every day ever since - a blog dedicated to new technology is a superb idea that works so well - Gizmodo is frequently days ahead of my other favourite tech sites - El Reg, Wired and ZDnet. Anyway first up via Gizmodo - the USB memory watch - especially for Louis after he went USB memory stick crazy after I started telling him about Dell's plans to do away with the floppy drive. Second Gizmodo find for today a techie guide to OLEDs which I've been meaning to read up on for a while now. Final Gizmodo find - Edinburgh ban on camera phones in strip clubs - which just me laugh.

Entry 260, Friday, April 4th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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iGrill

Just an April fool for now but how long before it becomes a reality: "The George Foreman USB iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated web-based cooking interface. Tasty [Found at Opticle Poptitude].

Entry 258, Wednesday, April 2nd 2003, Filed In Stuff
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King of Town

Visit the KingOfTown.com to see what happened to Strong Bad's old computer - all is revealed in the King of Town's e-mail! Also see Strong Bad head to head with the King of Town in Revenge of the King of Town - this is darn tricky and the Poopsmith keeps dropping me in the dirt.

Update: Today (April 2nd) some of these links are broken - although the King of Town homepage is still working - it's possible these were April Fool's day specials. I'll remove the boken links soon if they don't reappear.

Update(2): All these links are now broken suggesting the King of Town has left town. My screen shot (above) is all that remains. I'll be pulling all these links if this section of the Home Star Runner site doesn't resurface soon.

Entry 257, Tuesday, April 1st 2003, Filed In Stuff
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ACME License Maker

Welcome back off holiday to Wastrel Division - oh the mysterious speeding up of time outside of work - anyway straight back to top posting form with the Acme License Generator - pretend you're in prison by making license plates.

Entry 255, Monday, March 31st 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Microsoft Articles

Look away now if you hate Micro$oft - these links are all articles I've found recently that have been really useful when I've been installing IIS intranet systems.

First up : "Session Variables Do Not Persist Between Requests After You Install Internet Explorer Security Patch" or to put it another way "don't use underscores in server names" (this last link refers to my own notes on the subject, Micro$oft's solution of renaming the server not always being particularly practical in a real world situation).

Secondly - "ASP Session Variables Empty When Office 2000 MIME Types Are Streamed with Internet Explorer" - i.e. nothing or a JavaScript error (bizzarely in the form of a graphic of the letter J) appear in the Word Document or Excel Spreadsheet you've tried to dynamically display within MSIE by changing the MIME Types in your ASP code. Read Micro$oft's notes for the full details but it basically boils down to installing the latest service pack for MS Office to fix the problem.

Finally some background reading in the DNS Centre for Windows 2000.

Entry 254, Monday, March 31st 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Private Eye

A very lazy Sunday today with only one link. I picked up a copy of Private Eye on the way home from Fulham today which I haven't read in ages - still as funny as ever although it's a shame the web site misses all the political gossip - it does have all the cartoons though.