I decided to try out Pownce. It looks to be pretty good, although signing up with Firefox didn’t seem to want to work - it slowed Firefox to an absolute crawl, and kept telling me my postcode was invalid. (I’m wondering if it was something to do with not having Javascript turned on, although I’d think that’d make it faster?).
Pownce is, in their words, “a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.”
I have 6 invites to give out if anyone wants them… let me know in the comments if you want one (and make sure to leave a valid email address so I can send it to you, obviously!).
I discovered Desktop Tower Defence yesterday. This game is simple but catchy, and keeps you trying again to beat your score.
Continue reading ‘Desktop Tower Defence - annoyingly addictive’
Fancy a nice bargain on a Faberge egg?
Not a bad little saving there, think I’ll buy ten 
Live link (at least until they pull it down)
Even better is the customer review for it:
Looks fantastic, but not so tasty, May 31, 2007
By Benjamin Hallert (Springfield, OR)
While the wrapper is artfully done, I was disappointed with the filling. I don’t know if the one I got was a factory defect or not, but once I had removed the elaborate wrapper, I found it was empty, without even the smell of chocolate. After this, I’ll stick with Cadbury eggs, but my experience may not be representative of the normal presentation. I’ve given the product 4 stars because of the wrapper, though, while difficult to tear off, it was certainly stunning.
(Found via a post on The Daily WTF)
Okay, here’s a trip down Memory Lane… Sock Master’s Video Game Controller Family Tree is a history of game controller evolution through time, showing all the main consoles and where they borrowed ideas from etc. An interesting read, and makes me want to dig out my SNES
OK, StumbleUpon led me to this irritating yet very clever game. It’s like Breakout in that you move a paddle to keep a ball bouncing… but there’s a second ball balancing, and every time you move your paddle to one side, the platform the second ball is on moves the other way. Annoyingly addictive to try to beat your best time. So far I’ve managed 22.995 secs… can you do better?
Found Will Murai’s site via StumbleUpon - some brilliant illustration work, this guy has skills!
Two websites I’ve used a couple of times to send parts requests to motorcycle breakers:
Well worth a try if you need to find a certain part and want to see if any breakers have them available, saves ringing round all the breakers yourself.
If you know of any other good ones, feel free to post them in the comments!
(There are similar ones out there for cars, too).
Okay, I thought I’d seen it all, but this is too funny. The Irish Cancer Society have a policy that you may not link to their website without first filling out their link request form, ticking the boxes, then, er, printing it out, signing it, and faxing it to them.
Continue reading ‘Link request form… can they be serious?’
Tony Black made an interesting post on how USB is a nice little money-earner for the USB-IF (USB Implementors Forum).
Great post to start his new blog with (not counting the traditional “hey I have a new blog” initial post
Ever wanted to check the result of a DNS lookup from various DNS servers, perhaps to see how far a recent DNS change has propagated - which servers are giving the new answer, and which still have the old answer cached?
I recently wrote a little Perl script to do just that. My DNS Propagation Checker will query a set of 10 servers at random and show you the results. (Be warned, it may be a little slow at times, because (a) it has to wait for the DNS servers (I might re-write it one day to do the requests concurrently) and (b) my poor little virtual server is a little slow and overloaded right now.
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