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Aleem D’oh

England won the fourth test, just. They played fine cricket.

That doesn’t mean I’m not bitter.

I can’t help but feel that though England are playing out of their skins, and stopping Australia from playing well, they are only just managing to stay ahead, and Australia is still the better team. Still, I’m rather biased.

The umpiring was appalling. Well, appalling is putting it softly. It was atrocious. Highlighted by Simon Katich’s dismissal, to a ball that pitched well outside leg and was going over top of the stumps. Of course, it goes both ways, and England got their fair share of bad decisions as well, but wrong decisions at crucial times in the match could’ve affected the outcome. I understand why Katich was angry, I was irate, and I’m just spectating from the other side of the globe.

Everyone is saying cricket like this great, bringing in the crowds and all. I only enjoy these close contests after they’re all over. Watching it is killing me, I’d much rather Australia be thumping them like usual. But those sorts of games are forgotten about a week after they’re played.

Bring on the fifth hey.

Hot Chips

Boy: You know, you’re prettier than all those girls put together.
Girl: Are they all very pretty?
Boy: No.
Girl: So I’m not all that pretty, really?
Boy: Yes, of course you are, I mean, you’re prettier than all those ‘hot’ girls.
Girl: Are you checking them out?
Boy: No.
Girl: Yes you are. You think they’re hot.
Girl: [cries]

Automating Bad Habits

I love it how we’ve started calling them ‘podcasts’ instead of ‘mp3s’ or ‘downloads’. All of a sudden everyone seems okay with it.

Mp3 of the Week is now Podcast of the Week, and to download free illegal mp3 click here has become subscribe to the podcast.

Interweb one, recording industry nil.

Watch Out World

At university, one of our subjects requires us to develop a solution, using the skills we have acquired over the last few years, for a real-world organisation. As the criteria for assessing an acceptable project is difficult, and our campus primarily offers majors in web development, the example given us was ‘an aplication which requires a non-trivial amount of programming, with considerable database interaction’.

Fair enough I say, let’s do it.

The other day we had prototype demonstrations as part of our assessment. So, my partner and I get up and do a quick demo of a seventy percent functional content management system, which we’ve written from scratch in PHP. Following us, two teams got up and showed us how they’d half coded a template for a pre-packaged open source CMS. Good stuff people, it took you seven months to plan and produce that?

It gets better, another team doing essentially the same thing as me, has only just managed to get a working server with PHP and SQL installed - which wouldn’t boot for their demonstration.

A toast. To the future of the information technology industry.

Shouldn’t Have Clicked It

www.dontclick.it is cool.

Taslo Epiglug

I bought a CD book. One of the funniest books I’ve ever read too.

To give you a taste of Flanimals, here’s a run-down on one of my favourites, the Plamglotis.

“Born without feet, it swallows its hands to walk on to find food. Obviously when it finds food it can’t eat it because its mouth is full.”

What’s best about the whole situation is that a second flanimals book is to be released later this year.

School Teacher

Is anyone else disturbed by the Dodo ISP’s fetish themed television advertisments?

Così Fortunato

Mi sono sentito Franz Ferdinand nuovo scelga sulla radio oggi. Hanno posti definitivamente andati. Anche se non musicale.