December 2008Monthly Archives

Thanks to Clair at New Linux User : The Free Ubuntu Training course includes over 150 pages of Ubuntu desktop training topics with screen shots and step-by-step Ubuntu help. Many issues Ubuntu Linux newbies experience are explained here including Ubuntu history, installation, users and groups, desktop effects, resolution, appearance, mouse and keyboard configuration, network configuration, synaptic, printers, command line, file system, NFS and Samba, system services and much more.

Pope Benedict has made a surprise intervention into the economic crisis by branding the global financial system self-centred, short-sighted and lacking in concern for the common good of the world's people.
Dude. You are wearing PRADA. Holding a GOLD & JEWEL encrusted staff. You expect to be taken seriously????
The Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest institutions around. Be farking serious.

If you arent wrenched AND angered by this – what the hell is wrong with you?

This message was broadcasted in more than 50 countries on the 10th and the 11th of December.

Searingly brilliant.

Oh, Stephen's phone reviews are delectable!!!

The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks,

The great Robin Williams at his best taking the **** out of Bush, total respect.

And the most popular netbook in Q3 was… the Acer Aspire One, closely followed by – surprise, surprise – the combined collection of Asus Eee PCs.
Certainly, I have zero regrets and only good thoughts about selling my eee, and getting my Acer Aspire One….
And to the guy at Officeworks – see, told you – NETbooks not NOTEbooks.

A short story, originally written by Douglas Adams with Graham Chapman..please to enjoy…

Doctor Who Locations is also available for download to Google Earth.

Here is the pattern for the Tiny Cthulhu

Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters.

The top 10 data blunders of 2008, compiled by data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack, have seen people across the world falling victim to acts of great stupidity and misfortune.

the apocalypse tells it like it is!!

I am offering this pattern here, free of charge. You are free to use this pattern for personal use, making gifts and creating your own, personal, cuddly dalek army.

If you are so inclined, please make a charitable donation via my PayPal link on this page to help a family in need

Have you been waiting for that sexy Google Android phone OS to hit the streets? The wait is almost over…

Australian-based tech importer Kogan has revealed the first Google Android-based phone that will ship in Australia — and only the second that will ship worldwide.

Thinking of making this : Adults need Christmas presents too and this rocky road fudge, with its shot or two of Baileys, is just the thing.

John McCain ran one of the most incompetent, schizo campaigns in history — and for that we owe him big-time

A good rap name is like good rap: it sounds effortless without coming off sloppy, and it never tries too hard. Whether its vibe is biblical (Hova), comic book villain (Biggie Smalls) or comic book hero (Method Man); whether the name is self-imposed (Big Baby Jesus) or God-given (Kanye West and Tupac Shakur didn't really have a choice, now did they?) you know when you've heard a good rap name. And just as certainly, you know when you've heard a bad one. We count down the 25 worst.

Funny!

Roger Ebert on this 'documentary' : I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.