Dropsafe

Well I’ve not done one of these postings for a while, but the last two week’s crop has been rather high in the weirdness stakes, and so here’s a (edited for weirdness) list of search-engine queries which have landed on this weblog in the past two weeks. I’ve annotated a handful of them shagging woods

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You know that you’ve been changed by working in Financial Services when you read a headline like: [today.reuters.com] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four banks are buying a combined 25 percent equity stake in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange for a total of $19 million, the fourth largest U.S. equity options exchange said on Tuesday. …and you

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Subject: British Airways onboard catering update From: British Airways Executive Club <BA@BritishAirways.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:48:45 +0100 (BST) Dear Mr Muffett, As you are a valued customer to British Airways, I would like to provide you with an update on the current problems we are experiencing with our onboard catering, due to unofficial

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For those who are aware of (or share) my Banksy and AroFish interest, this is an amusing diversion: [www.picturesofwalls.com] I do like the one with the cartoon of a brontasaur, and the legend “NEVER FORGET”. Update: and “BEWARE OF THE DOG he is very sarcastic“.

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Isn’t it funny how body, memory and the mind work? Last night I reorganised the library at home – this involved shifting a couple of hundred pounds of books and paperwork, trashing old carpet tiles, relocating a set of cheap shelves, bodily shifting a large-ish filing cabinet from one side of the room to the

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Oh for Darwin’s sake… ‘Babies hit’ by terror flight ban Young children have been prevented from boarding aircraft in the US because they have names similar to those on a government no-fly list, reports say. AP news agency cited two cases of children under the age of two stopped after their parents were told they

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Via acb: [news.bbc.co.uk] Confused lions ‘hunt’ small cars Small cars driving through a safari park in Merseyside have been chased by confused lions who think they are prey. Staff at Knowsley Safari Park are monitoring smaller vehicles, including Smart cars and Mini Coopers, after the lions started paying special interest. David Ross, park manager, told

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There are: three-button mice – common in the unix world two-button mice – common in the windows world one-button mice – common (until notoriously recently) in the Apple world miceless (zero-mouse) mouse buttons – touchpoints mouseless buttonless mice – trackpads upside-down mice – trackballs …so therefore the Apple Mightymouse is an upside-down mouse on top

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Used iBooks; the new Cabbage Patch Kids? Or a reaction to the swap to Intel? 😎 The story has not really been covered in the UK, but is summed up by this extract: A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with

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…and I think they overdid the lidocaine or whatnot. It’s the first time my nose has gone to sleep. Curious, rubbery sensation.

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Bizzare, and with Nigth vision.

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