Line Rider
Draw a line and then set a little man bob sledding off it. Surprisingly addictive. Watch this video to see what can be done. Line Rider – beta by ~fsk on deviantART
There’s a bounty on Kofi Annan’s head
They’ve put a bounty on Kofi Annan’s head. Will they never stop?
.Net file locking on compile
I kept on getting a problem whereby on trying to recompile a project in Visual Studio a dll assembly would be locked when I loaded the project up in a browser with a message such as: Cannot copy assembly […] to file [..].dll. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by …
Telegraph Fantasy Football password
The Telegraph Fantasy Football password for Wednesday 27th September is Money.
Pointless spam
Spam has always seemed mostly pointless to me, but the lengths that the spammers need to go to to get around spam filters just seems bizarre nowadays. I know that ‘Pharmaceutical’ is a difficult word to spell, but if I was going to buy some then I’d make sure that the people I was buying …
Telegraph Fantasy Football password
The Telegraph Fantasy Football password for Wednesday 21st September is Golden.
A weekend with a Yamaha YZF-R1 – my review
I’ve just spent the weekend with a Yamaha YZF-R1 in my care. I’ve ridden a number of motorbikes now including most often a CBRE 600, but also a Honda Blackbird, a VFR 800 and, some time ago, a distant relative of the R1, the Fazer FZ6 600, but this is the first time I’ve taken …
Tourist in second Outback rescue
This guy sounds quite dim: after being rescued from the Australian outback after a four day search, he decided to go back to the same place because it seems he’d lost something there, so had to be rescued again. BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Tourist in second Outback rescue
Telegraph Fantasy Football password
The Telegraph Fantasy Football password for Wednesday 13th September is Fashion.
Another reason why Abbey business banking is rubbish
Authentication and security: when people have forgotten their password, it’s quite common to ask them an answer something memorable, such as ‘City of birth’. But who on earth requires you to memorise not only the answer to your memorable question, but what the question is? Abbey do, of course.