Useful links.

singapore
england
london
paris
interlaken
geneva
nice
florence
pisa
rome
vienna
berlin
brussels
stockholm

(Can you pick a pattern here?)

Updated: Made them all into links. Regexs are fun.

Having gone to a catholic school for a few years (Yr 8-10), but not catholic (or infact, religious at all) - I found this following piece of information rather amusing.

Apparently, Sunday is not a ‘fast’ day for Lent. This has left some people feeling a little ripped off.

Looking at Ridata cards as addition to my sandisks. (Blame Talos)
Sample Prices from eBay:
- 1GB Ridata ~$68
- 2GB Ridata ~$117

David Honl’s blog: http://blogs.lexar.com/davidhonl/ - interesting read.

Eep not much time left - need to get this sorted asap.

Now looking at a shoulder-bag capable of holding:
* The camera + 2 lenses (in seperate sub-bag for protection) +
* 1 change of clothes (t-shirt, jocks, socks, etc.)
* mp3 player + headphones
* pda + mobile

That’s the minimum it needs to hold - ideally I’d like it to hold a bit more, but that can keep.

What I’ve found:
shoulder_bag_interurban
shoulder_bag_voyager
soft_luggage_safari
soft_luggage_getaway(but in black)

And about a 96L backpack.

Also, for the camera, I’m thinking of getting one or two of these:
http://www.davidhonlphoto.com/wraps/html/buyonline.html

Edit: Comments disabled due to it being a spam target.

Thanks to Aeoth for the idea.

I’ve got a Kiko calendar, which lets me share the calendar, it provides an RSS feed for upcoming events, which I need to somehow parse and dump into a Wordpress (or something) page.

Oh, relevant URLs:
Public Calendar
RSS Feed of Upcoming Events

Bash.org is great. From the Latest:

#628411
<b3nz0rz>: A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said,
“Don’t you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?”
I said “I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too”.

…and still more fantastic geek humor:

#626285
Dan: It may be Saturday morning, but IRC is the protocol that never sleeps!
azc: As far as I know, the only protocol that sleeps is ACPI

(and more)

#624369
-!- blehhhhh [n=muhammad@213-193-176-96.adsl.easynet.be] has joined #perl
<blehhhhh> hello guys, how am i able to create an array of socks ?
<mmlj4> open a drawer?

(and more)

#625276
{RainmakeR}: fuck I’m a retard
{RainmakeR}: I was trying to use windows magnifier to enlarge the dead pixel area to look at it better
{RainmakeR}: i had it open for like 5 seconds, then like “wait a minute… “

(last one)

#614648
<@Wally> stupid muslims promise virgins
<@Wally> if they promised lightsabers I’d be on my way to mecca
<@Wally> I can hang out with virgins on IRC

C/- Ctrl+Alt+Delete today comes this funny(ish) clip.
Updated: Some more funny stuff, this time from The Jargon File:

A story about Magic
Ping (specificly, the last paragraph about isolating network faults using ping)

Booked my Accom for Singapore (2 nights) today, but found out that I can’t get a 4-country Eurail SelectPass to include Belgium… WTF?
So, that’s been switched from a 4-country pass to a 3-country pass (Italy, Austria, Germany), and when I get to Germany I’ll have to organise something.

For anyone needing to do POP3 in .NET, check OpenPOP.NET out — it’s written in C#, and apparently compiles in both Mono and the .NET 1.1 CLR.

Oh, and since it’s licenced in LGPL - No need to screw around worrying about licence costs.

Wallpapers

Most of these are aimed at 1920×1200.

Wikipedia Featured Desktop Backgrounds

Deviantart - Wallpaper @ 1920×1200

I won’t bother replicating all of the links from: Tenser, said the Tensor - 1920×1200 Wallpapers (a collection of good wallpaper links)

Very cool set of artwork from games/movies: Goodbrush

Useful for some things, I’m sure.

• “GMail Scrolling”
• “Clear Blue”
• “Greyed Out”
• “Oranges in the Sky”
• “Spearmint Tints”
• “City Mouse” (useful for the image underlay, if one doesn’t already know about it)
• “Chrome de la Chrome”

(meanwhile, I’m just getting a pittle p’ed off with the positioning of bullets in this theme)