Ever found yourself gagging for a cuppa at work – but not wanting to boil the kettle seeing as you made the last one?
Me too.
So to help office morale around the world, I’m creating a website so you can track who’s made what and more importantly, who’s next.
Tags: office politics, SMS, tea
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If you’re looking at this and have read any of my other posts, you’ll notice that the site has had a makeover that would make Nick Knowles and his DIY SOS team proud!
Gone are the default WordPress colours and images – there are so many bright colours now you need a pair of sunglasses to view it!
Tags: cactus, DIY SOS, mexican, nick knowles, red, WordPress, wordpress theme, yellow
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How hard is it to create a WordPress theme?
Armed with a ready supply of tea, a well stocked iTunes library and a kick-ass design from Ryan DC, my mission, if I chose to accept it, was to find out …
Tags: johnny ball, themes, tony hart, WordPress
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So, The list.
Loads of sporting venues from all over the globe, plotted on a huge list in order to prove who’s more of a sports fan. There’s a multitude of power-ups, bonuses and extras that bump up your score – it’s so complicated it’d make Carol Vorderman wince.
Each sport has it’s own mini-list of venues – but instead of printing them all out as a big long undigestible list that would be about as exciting as reading through the Encyclopedia Britannica, I’ll go through each sport one by one.
This time it’s football and below is a breakdown of the 8 that made it onto the list plus a few others that didn’t – for those who missed it, you get a point if you’ve been to the venue and another one if you’ve seen a match there (max of 1 extra point). Oh, and if the stadium has been bulldozed you get an extra brucie bonus point.
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Tags: escape to victory, football, sporting stadia, sylvester stallone
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We’ve got a new project at work.
It’s really cool and we want it to have a secret project name that sounds awesome and makes us feel important by talking about something no-one else knows about.
But what do you do when you haven’t got any kind of naming convention of projects? Get one quick because revision 641 of the development branch sounds pretty naff whilst Project Apocalypse sounds awesome!
In the past Microsoft have had some great names for projects – “Sparta” for Windows for Workgroups and “Wolfpack” for Microsoft Cluster Server are a couple of the best whilst Apple have free roam over the big cats. I’ve had all sorts for my computers in the past - planets, constellations (good job I only had 2 computers as I don’t know many constellations), beer, ancient forgotten cities, the list goes on..
Tags: biscuits, curry, naming conventions, projects
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Today I’ve mostly been playing around with Darwin.
I’m not talking about doing experiments with Finches of different colours and beak sizes – i’m on about Darwin Streaming Server, or DSS for short.
Tags: darwin, linux, overheating servers, rtsp, server that's going to blow up
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I heard back from Guinness today (the world record people not the ones who make that awful drink) (although they are probably the same)
After many months of waiting, my application to break the world record for eating cream crackers in the fastest possible time has been accepted. All I have to do now is fill in a form and the record attempt is on.
Tags: cream crackers, dedication's what you need, Record Breakers
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A few years back I got into a discussion (ok, an argument) with a mate about who had visited the most famous sporting venues.
I’d been to Yankee stadium, he’d been to the Crucible. I’d taken in a match at the old Wembley stadium but he’d been to the Azteca stadium in Mexico.
As is usual in things like this (or maybe it’s just me), I drew up a list so we could keep score..
Tags: sporting venues around the world
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I’ll make no bones about it, I want to be a record breaker and if Usain Bolt can do it, so can I.
I don’t know where this has all come from – maybe it stems from watching Roy Castle & Norris McWhirter on Record Breakers. They used to get a load of randoms (with the occasional celeb) in each week to break all sorts of records ranging from running the 100m backwards to knitting the worlds biggest blanket.
Perhaps it was when Kriss Akabusi took over from Roy…
Tags: cream crackers, kriss akabusi
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