Archives for September, 2004
free floating bicycles
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
after a couple of e-mails, i have learnt that both trans manche ferries and hoverspeed will allow me to take my bike (and anyone else and their bikes, in fact) for free as a footpassenger on the newhaven – dieppe route. the problem with hoverspeed is they finish for this year on sunday, but trans [...]
whitebait and sausages
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
last night sarah took me for a lovely meal at the river, a highly recommended place to eat. especially check out their deep fried whitebait with caper dip for a starter, and for main..? blueberry and port sausages with cheese and chive mash and maybe red wine and rosemary gravy, although maybe that’s a bit [...]
Amazingly Versatile 7-Letter Kit – Includes: LINDOWS
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
currently priced at $5100, you could own your very own large letters, currently only available: L, I, N, D, O, W and S. be quick, only a few hours left to own a piece of history.
super-miniaturize my bar
Monday, September 27th, 2004
according to the Guardian, ‘king-size’ chocolate bars are to be phased out in the UK in order to fight obesity. make of that what you will.
leeeeeech
Friday, September 24th, 2004
I’m in Sandwich for the weekend with my family for a wedding, luckily one of the neighbours of the cottage we are staying in has broadband and a Netgear WiFi router so we can leech free connections. Also lucky 3/4 of us brought laptops.
buffet review
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
This week I have been eating lots of nice food. On monday I cooked dinner for 7, which was fun (and it tasted good, as you can imagine). On tuesday and wednesday I attended a conference at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London. This included 2 buffet lunches, the first consisting of a seared [...]
pork chip micro
Sunday, September 19th, 2004
according to cnn, 1100lbs of pork shoulder had to be recalled from a meatpacking factory in the USA. why? because they accidentally slaughtered the pigs being used for an experiment which had microchips embedded in them. i wonder if they included RFID tags.
bike-mounted-bluejacking-pollution-sensors
Friday, September 17th, 2004
equator, a collaborative project between a bunch of UK universities, are working on a project they call the ‘urban pollution project‘. essentially they’ve created pollution monitoring points around cities, which are signed as such. they record pollution levels, and when a user with a bluetooth device walks nearby, they get bluejacked, asking if they’d like [...]
free ipods
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
the future of pyramid schemes
spammy day
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
today i have received over 50 spam comments on my blog, none of them got through the crude wordpress spam filters, but still..i’m going to be investigating some more spam-blocking options.