Archive for April, 2006

Uncyclopedia Holidays

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

I decided it was time for a list, so here is a list of some holidays, celebrated by that wonderful depository of knowledge, Uncyclopedia.

April 1, 2005: WikiTestament - for April Fools’ Day the Uncyclopedia page was given an evangelistic skinning.
July 4, 2005: A “simple” version of Uncyclopedia - for Americans, featuring various (gentle) insults (including […]

Manuals

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Someone told me some very useful advice today:
Be wary of any useful device that weighs less than the operating manual that came with it.
This advice seems to work for most devices and their manuals and is just something random I remembered from the day. For example, Windows weighs as much as a CD, 15g, and […]

Britain

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

What I hate about Britain:

Keith Chegwin
Power cuts

I said there would be more on this later, and here it is.
OK, Mr Chegwin is probably one of the most annoying people on television. I know that most critics say that most people are annoying but he surpasses all of them joined together into a cornucopia of annoyingness. […]

1000 Visitors

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

This is like that thing in a supermarket, the old “1,000,000th Shopper” thing. Anyway, I was just looking at the stats for my website and I noticed that last month I managed to amass 1,036 unique visitors (here is a screenshot from my cPanel to prove it, if you don’t believe me) to my site […]

Crosswords

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

After the comment on my last post, I was rather suprised. I had just finished watching Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure when this comment mentioning crosswords appeared. Now, unless you have watched the DVD or read the book you will not know the relevance of this, so I encourage you to get the DVD/Book.
Anyway, to the […]