Writing about: xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

Writing about: Sony NAS-50HDE Gigajuke audio system | Reg Hardware

I want one.

Writing about: Max Hammond Photography: blog » Blog Archive » Facebook

Funnily enough, almost exactly a year ago I was looking at my Facebook friends’ status. I’m always impressed by how creative people are :)

#### is SCHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEEEEEEEEEEEEN.
#### is already bored of her own company.
#### is glad he queue jumped. Catalysis done in under an hour = victory beer!
#### is lifting you up, and letting you down, dancing til dawn , fooling around.
#### is playing on her new DS Lite.
#### is en BA de nuevo. Hace Frio.
#### is taking part in the facebook revolution.
#### is wishing teaching was a 9 to 5 job!
#### is in Spain getting some serious tanage!!! WOO!!!
#### is concerned that his eyes are quite painful.
#### is going to write a musical about Paris Hilton’s time in jail.
#### is moving to the Republic of Kiribati (or somewhere equally remote but with whisky galore – like Barra) because she’s had enough enough enough.
#### is coming back to the UK this evening :) but then going to work up north :(.
#### is Waiting for his first issue of Mens Health Subscription to turn up.
#### is the man.
#### is in technicolour!
#### is freezing cold now he’s back in Perth! Bring back Singapore heat! #### thinks Kev is in BIG trouble!
#### is still flat hunting :(.
#### is off to Hartville, woohoo! :-).
#### is reluctant to do anything productive with his copious amount of free time.
#### is a trucker extraordinaire.

I’ve been thinking about getting an MP3 player for a while, and the launch of the new iPods from Apple got me looking again. I was tempted by the new Shuffle (in the shape of a clip), but I decided to look around and see what else is on the market.

So. For a bit more than a Shuffle, I got a much more capable player from Sony. Graphic equalizer, 1Gb of storage, FM radio, decent display. All good.

One needs to use the SonicStage software to load music, which is a little boring but does work. It’s designed around the idea of an album or a playlist, but it is possible to load individual tracks if desired. There are also “dynamic playlists” which can be set up with some basic rules, and then choose a selection of music to load (say 60 minutes of random tracks, or all the music marked as genre Techno which was added to the library in the last month).

The display is a single line of text, and one can navigate by album or by playlist, or search for a specific track. The UI is very good considering the small display.

Apple? Pah.

More Emotional You have: 62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 77% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored well above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition.Your emotional intuition is stronger than your scientific intuition. Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you’re good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the sciences.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Scientific You scored higher than 99% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Writing about: Bruce Schneier Facts

Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.

Bruce Schneier doesn’t even know the meaning of the word ciphertext, because to him, everything is plaintext.

Bruce Schneier’s secure handshake is so strong, you won’t be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.

Bruce Schneier is the ideal man. Alice loves him; Bob fears him; Charlie wants to be him.

When God needs a new secure certificate, he uses Bruce Schneier as the signing authority.

Exciting news: I’ve got a new mobile :-)

I’ve always had Nokia phones, since I got my very first 3210 way back in ‘99. But now I’ve jumped ship – Sony Ericsson it is. K610i. V. nice. Recommended.

On the other hand, my landline has broken. ADSL and CLI work, but there’s no dialtone and it doesn’t ring. So I reported the fault to BT online, it did a line test automagically, and let me divert calls to my mobile until they fix it. Which is nice of them.

Writing About:New cell phone to prevent drunk dialing | News.blog | CNET News.com

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book – bosses, moms, exes, pizzerias – if the breath analyzer records a blood-alcohol concentration over 0.08.

I first proposed this in approximately 1997. I wonder how long it’ll be before someone takes the next step, and makes a drunken-email detector too?