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Genesis

Nov 8, 2006
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Genesis Article

I was reading The Times while I was waiting in the opticians and this sidebar tickled me. OK, it's too blurry to read here (the irony!) but it says this:

Jonathan King coined the band’s name after talent-spotting Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks
Phil Collins joined in 1970; Gabriel left in 1975
Gabriel went on to launch Greenpeace in the Soviet Union, work on Nelson Mandela concerts and Amnesty tours and establish Womad
Phil Collins performed on Top of the Pops next to a tin of paint after his wife ran off with a decorator

In other words Peter Gabriel went on to save the world while Phil Collins performed on TV with a paint pot. It seems even The Times thinks Phil is a bit of a twat.

The Webcam

Oct 26, 2006
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I walked into the server room at work yesterday and was going about my normal business when I discovered something unexpected - a webcam. No one told me about this!

Our boss had recently bought a very expensive webcam and now, without warning, it was pointing at the door watching everyone who was going in and out. Very disconcerting.

So, we knew this outrage could not go on without some kind of action. But what?

Well I've seen a few too many bank raid movies in my time so it was pretty obvious. We needed to put a picture of the door in front of the webcam.

We logged into the cam, took a screen shot of what it was displaying, printed it on our top notch colour printer and then with some careful adjustment we were able to make it look like everything was normal. Here it is:

Webcam Prank

Here's the setup. The photo is attached to a box with paperclips. The webcam is the small white box on a grey stand. It's sitting on some really old hard disks to give it the right height.

Webcam Prank View

And here's the view from the webcam. Pretty good eh?

My horrible computer

Oct 4, 2006
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This is the PC I use at work. I hate it.

You are looking at an Elonex ProSentia with an underwhelming 1.2 GHz Celeron processor and a pant-wetting 256 MB in RAM. The hard disk seems to run at 4K - I don't care what it says on the goddamned label.

Earlier today I decided I needed to look something up on Google. From the moment of making this momentous decision to getting the results page took THREE MINUTES!!!!

Don't go looking for an Elonex PC in the shops. Because they've gone bankrupt.