Dropsafe

So I was using VNC to access my iMac at home, and the system was behaving very curiously – using IM to talk with a colleague, the stuff I was typing was spattered with lots of extra whitespace and some extra characters: lik           e          t h   i s       . …as if someone was holding down the space bar. Then I…

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So I’ve sold my first bike… [sniff, sniff] …to Charlie De Courcy from Sun. Am glad it’s going to someone who’s passionate about learning to ride.

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Valerie pinged me last night with this piece of marvelousness: Sometimes I have some challenging ideas, or crazy like some other people would say. This time I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he stay also the night out. When…

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Do you remember the days then TinyURLs were 4 characters long? I blame Twitter.

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Available from Albert Lee’s website. w00t. Nowadays that’s a must-have.

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So I go away overnight, and by way of protest one of my cats – the smarter one, who sometimes sleeps on my keyboard to maximise the chance I’ll tickle him – barfs on my laptop bag, between the shoulder straps. Evil little sod.

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So I keep getting spam with as subject “Get a bigger instrument“, and instead of them offering a bigger instrument they offer pills and other questionable bits and bobs to modify one’s anatomy.

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I blame Wimbledon.

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Amusing reading. http://support.apple.com/manuals/en/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf

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I’m trying the Safari 3 Beta So far the only obvious enhancement is the: You are about to close a window which has 15 tabs open, are you really sure? …dialogue. Oh, and American spellchecking… Still, it works OK.

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I can cope with the silliness like zombies and stuff like that, but I added one of the applications – some question/answering thing – to find that it spontaneously mailed all my friends to ask “How was your weekend”… and now Facebook are demanding that I provide a security question “in case I should ever…

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…so I intend to have a cigar, to celebrate.

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