Category Archives: random

Miscellaneous ramblings

I Found Bin Laden!

received a great present on the weekend . This book of pure comic gold introducing a Where’s Wally style search for Bin Laden and his cronies. There are hundreds of hilarious pop-culture (or maybe politically incorrect) references to look for, such as “Hugh Grant paying off another hooker” in London or “a pair [...]

Geek Mobile

Driving around Sydney city can be a right headache, but I stumbled upon this number plate this week:

For the colour coded out there, #CC26CC is the RGB hex value for purple, the colour of the plate and car. I admit, it is a little difficult to tell, so blame the crappy camera on my phone.

A GMail Annoyance

I love gmail. Really, I think it is the best web based email software I have ever used. The keyboard shortcuts make browsing through emails and conversations a breeze. Everyone has their pet peeves, so here is mine.
The UI for navigating between links is quite standard – click on newer or older in the email [...]

Movie Quiz Answers

A while ago I posted a find-a-movie quiz released by lovefilm.com. I got lots of responses, with many many movies. There were 100 to find, but I still couldn’t find all of them. Thanks to everyone’s help, I’ve compiled an answer sheet with approximately 95 movies.

Tintin movies to be made!

I’ve just read that Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are set to produce three Tintin films! The Belgian reporter always was a hero to me as a little kid, although I’m not sure what they are going to do with the whole three-d rendering situation.