Miscellaneous Debris – Archive

Slight addendum to the David Bowie post – he may have looked ridiculous in 1968, but it sure the hell was worse in 1965.

Looking back, it seems the majority of my cheerful/okay postings are public, while most of my depressed/downer postings are friends-only. (The REALLY bad ones are private/me-only). Since I know I have some regular non-friend readers, it gives a slightly skewed account of my life. So here, for record’s sake – bah.

Did I already link to this one?

Anyone out there know his way around car CD players? I’m looking for something that: Can play MP3s and WMAs. OGGs would be nice, but I’m not holding my breath. Has a line-in connector, so I can plug in my portable MP3 player or whatever. Does not have too many animations/colors/whatever. Don’t need that. Has […]

The Netscape colours are all carefully named. For example papayawhip is 0xffefd5 . Just to keep them on their toes, define a papayawhip colour constant as 0xff00ff, a garish magenta. Have fun making up obscure colour names like algae = 0x556b2f instead of darkolivegreen. Very few people know what colour puce and teal are, but […]

“Warning – Contains Sharp Edges!” On a box of kitchen knives.

Ok, so I started checking out my recent acquisitions. This is what I have so far:

As fortune had it, my current client had a seminar to attend to – all 50 or so of them – so I had the day off. Perfect timing and all, what with me turning 26 and all that. So I walked about town, tracing what are no doubt occult symbols of terrible potence across […]