I found the following image as I was browsing a few blogs and could immediately identify with it and chuckled a fair bit so I’m sharing it for all you web designers and developers out there

It’s amazing how nifty design can be made to look like the most stupid thing in the world. After all, who can post on a forum if its closed? Why then does it say I should post if I can’t? Surely the most elementary of programmers could manage an if statement to deal with such issues *sigh*.

See what I mean here

Well we all do it, punch our names into Google and see if we come up. Those of us with sites want to see what key words we think potential readers might type in and see if our sites come up in addition to the ego induced self-searching. It was therefore a pleasant surprise to see that I have not only come top in Google on a search for my full name, with a number of other sites I run coming in the subsiquent positions (I have known this for quite a while), but that on a search for just my first name I now rank 6th on world sites and 5th on UK only sites. True I’m not top, but as most Google users only see/use the top 10 entries its good enough for me to be in said top 10. Screen dump shown below in case I slip down the rankings in a few weeks or so

If its really original and amusing political humour you are after, then you would do a lot worse than check out the images by Clay Bennett . They had me chuckling the whole way through. Some might be a tad tastless in todays specific world climate, but if we can’t have a good laugh at the expense of people who can’t get their act together then who can we laugh at

Check out this massive glass of beer! The left hand glass is just shy of a pint in size to enable easy comparison. This is one beer I wouldn’t want to be downing in a drinking game. Thanks to Sy Borg for the photo.

What with the various little bits I have had to do lately and the excitement and preparations for the North Sea Jazz festival I have had much less time for blogging than I normally do.

Yesterday however I got sent this great link which both made my day and still makes me laugh just as loud as the first time I saw it. Enjoy Firefox explodes IE

Sung to the tune of The Beatles, Let it be, these lyrics made me chuckle a fair bit while cracking on with my C coursework.

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
“Write in C.”

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
“Write in C.”

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO’s dead and buried,
Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you’ve just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Only wimps use BASIC.
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won’t quite cut it.
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Don’t even mention COBOL.
Write in C.

Now if that isn’t a good bit of amusing motivation for your programming in C, I don’t know what is

Matt needed to sober up before leaving the quilted llama this afternoon so as a joke said Sarann should punch him. Sarann was rather more keen that anticipated however, and cheered on by a group of us the fatal blow was delivered, lol

You can download the video here

I was on my way home from the university campus today when something caught my eye in the window of the Morrisons supermarket. It was closed early, on account of it being the bank holiday I guess, but there, in front of the main window was one of the employees dancing to some inaudible music right there in the window.

Completely oblivous to my gaze, and indeed around 5-6 others on the street, he proceeded to change tempo as the still inaudible music obviously changed track. While he obviously wasn’t trying to get spotted (no one who dances worse than me would, namely because I’m awful), he didn’t improve matters by standing inbetween two large offer posters allowing him to be on full view, and occasionally seizing an invisible microphone in order to karaoke along with the song.

While I’m not usually one to have a joke at someone elses expense, this one was just too good to miss

Someone on a forum I help administer posted this up in the free chat area, thought it was amusing to talk about these kind of things in such technical terms!

Installing Love

Tech Support: Yes, … how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error - Program not run on external components.” What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

All I can say is watch out all you who ask my advice on MSN