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Posts from December 2004

Favourites of 2004

So here we are, 2004 comes kicking and screaming to a conclusion, and in retrospect it’s been a fun up and down year, I’ll try to encapsulate it as much as possible by going over the positive and hiding the negative…


100 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year

100 things we didn’t know this time last year. “30. The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains just 16 nuts and bolts. The rest is held together by rivets, because it doesn’t need to be dismantled.”


Scattered Pictures

It’s been such a lazy week, a great lazy week… Not often I get a week off to be lazy without packing up house or going camping, but this week has just been fabulously lazy…

All we’ve done is watch movies, play Halo 2, eat and sleep. Does life get much better than that? I mean really…


Merry Christmas

Nothing quite says “Merry Christmas” like a Halo 2 marathon and chinese buffet for “christmas dinner” does it?


NORAD Santa Tracker

Track Santa’s progress via the NORAD radar. As of this time (10:36am EST), he’s halfway across Australia…


T’was The Day Before “You Know What”…

You know… After a week you’d think I’d have something interesting and possibly remotely Christmasy to talk about but alas, dear readers, I’m just not that interesting…


Me and the Firefox New York Times Advert

Until now, my only major claim to fame was me managing to get my name included in the credits of Championship Manager 4 as well as my ever-so-slight brush with fame after FHM leeched that Yeti game off me earlier this year (but I’m over looking it as my name wasn’t published anywhere except here). Not any more…


Xbox Live

I’ve finally succumbed to the temptations of Xbox Live and Halo 2 and Burnout 3 in particular…

And damn, it’s insane stuff… There’s like this heirarchy of gamerdom that you can only learn the hard way… Namely kids yelling and cursing at you.


Love Shack

The B-52’s “Love Shack” burns down. “The tin roof and a burned-out frame are all that remain of a cabin believed to have inspired the B-52’s ’80s party hit ‘Love Shack.’” Funkylittleshack. Funky. Little. Shack…


Firefox NYT Advert

After a donation campaign, the Mozilla Foundation today announced that it has placed a two-page ad in the December 16th edition of the New York Times. Not bad, it was originally supposed to be a singe page advert and it now co-incides with the 11th million download of Firefox 1.0…


WordPress 1.2.2

WordPress release version 1.2.2. It should fix a few nasty bugs and a few security updates.


Whitney Houston Hits a MARTA Bus

Whitney Houston hit a MARTA bus with her sports car near her home in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Wednesday. “Thanks, Whitney. Thank you so much for returning suburban Atlanta to national prominence one more time.”


Collision Course

It’s not often I actually buy a CD nowadays, but I bought the recent Linkin Park and Jay-Z collabaration and I’m really loving it…


Winter Wonderland

Seeing as it’s getting cold outside, I thought it would be a good idea to roll out the “Winter Theme” for Scam City…


Marine Sacrifices Finger to Save Wedding Ring

Marine sacrifices finger to save wedding ring. But the doctors still manage to lose it…


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