Maybe you've heard of the remote-controlled vibrator? You give it to your lady-friend and go out, say to dinner. At various points in the evening, you press a button, and she gets a surprise. :-)

Now, take it up a notch. Instead of a remote control, it's connected to your mobile phone via bluetooth... THE TOY

"I for one still feel a thrill of excitement and surprise when Word does what I asked it to, often followed by a second thrill, of a different kind, when it abruptly stops doing so," she wrote in 1998.

Taken from The Register, which they took from a book review for a BOFH-style book, except for programmers rather than admins (more info here).

Pizza Ordering in 2010

Just picked up my passport from the migration specialists, complete with new, shiny "permanent residency" visa. The Australian government seems to think I'm worth keeping. :-P From what I understand, I can stay here as long as I like now, and can possibly change jobs if the desire ever strikes me ( Read more... )

Anyone know anything useful about digital cameras? We need one here at work, min 5 megapixel, 512 MB RAM on a stick, a good optical zoom and, preferably, and sturdy metal and/or weatherproof case. This camera will be used primarily at mines and factories to give the project team an idea of what they're working on, so a) they'll need the zoom to ( Read more... )

Today seems to be the "anti-work" day for me. Started at 9, to find an e-mail saying that one of our guys is leaving, and he's throwing a morning tea for the rest of the IT team. He lasted a month. Hmm. Anyway, that killed about 45 mins ( Read more... )

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Some things that were forwarded to me over the weekend ( Read more... )

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PS: Before you flame me for this, check out the date at the top, and keep in mind I didn't underline or highlight anything, that was the way I received it...

So the four of us (me, Cat, Kai & Meli) are sitting around the table having conversations and Chinese dinner; Cat with her special fried rice, Meli with soup, myself with soup and chicken, and Kai with a "kid's size" (3 fillets) fish & chips. After Kai goes through about half of his fish, he asks if he can have some prawn crackers, which he loves ( Read more... )