An upcoming product from a company called TheyFit, is designed to deal with a problem many a European man has had (and some from other countries too but we like to boast the most): condoms that are made to measure, lots of sizes, just like bra’s. There will be 70 sizes in total available and measurements will be in width/length, e.g. G33, N32 etc. Below is a copy of the chart that will be downloadable so you can print it off and measure yourself up.
For those who haven’t seen it, this is the trailer for Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, a direct to DVD movie to fill in the void between the end of Battlestar Galactica and the (hopeful) beginning of Caprica early in the new year.
The Plan is set sometime around the miniseries and series one and will be told from the Cylons perspective explaining things such as the disappearance of Ellen Tigh.
I’ve just been checking my Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools stats and realised I rank ridiculously high for a term I barely used – anti gravity mice. It’s not just that term I rank high for though, it’s all these:
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This is a result of this post, which I only posted on a whim. I really don’t understand Google’s search logic sometimes!
There was one added quirk from this, until a few minutes ago, my blog home page title changed based on the latest post so this morning if people searched for anti gravity mice, the search result for my blog showed up as Chandelier, Penis Chandelier linking to my blog home page. A safe for work query turned not so safe!
If I still lived in my old house I’d have this – a penis chandelier. Made by a Dutch company called Rock and Royal, it would undoubtedly be a talking point for any guests.
The company actually does a lot of weird chandeliers so this isn’t that strange, taking a look at their Impressions page shows spiders, guns, flags, pirate ships, musical instruments etc. Nothing quite trumps the in-your-face-ness of the penis chandelier though.
Yes, the man at work who loves pretty graphs and hover effects has started his own blog at http://restafarian.com. Should be an interesting read on days where we discuss the finer points of hover graphs in 3D with side gauges.
In a word: no. In three words: not worth it. Yeah it was gory, but the second one was better (still not beating the first but that had the advantage of being the first.) It followed the plot of the sequels exactly; people avoid a disaster, guy keeps getting premonitions, one couple refuse to accept it, guy gets guts pulled out of his anus… OK maybe that bit was unique. Then at the end, they think they survived only to find out, no, they didn’t, and dead. If anyone reads that and thinks I spoiled the ending – where have you been the last 2-3 films? Not much else to say on it really, wait for the DVD and rent it (don’t buy it.) I really do hope it is THE final film now.
This weekend is my superb fiancée’s birthday (well today it is, but it’s a weekend so it becomes a weekend affair.) Last night we went to eat at Browns in Leeds, I had rare lamb, and I mean rare, I’ve never had it so uncooked before, was good though! It came with broccolli and potatoes dauphinoise which went down a treat! Jared had a 28 day aged rib eye steak (he always has steak), my mother had the seafood platter which she did not enjoy and my sister had a pasta dish she seemed to love. All in all it was a nice meal (except my mother’s, she said it was far too much like tinned food.)
Today was Lightwater Valley, which was a great day out, Jared had no idea where we were going until we arrived so that was a good surprise for him, we had a really good day, my mother screamed so much I was in tears. I love a ride a lot more when other people on it scream or laugh, it just makes it feel so much more enjoyable.
Tomorrow is going to be Xscape, Castleford with some of his friends from his workplace, laser quest, bowling, neon golf and possibly the cinema too (if we do the cinema, it’ll be to see 9.) The best thing about tomorrow though is no work for me! I took a holiday off so I could do stuff with Jared for his birthday.
So far a great weekend, he loved his gift (DKNY watch and some soapy stuff from Lush.) Will be a shame when it’s over.
That’s the name of the video “Good News – Windows 7.” The little kid is called Kelly and she believes “seven” is a happy word – it does stand for “togetherness” in China though so maybe that’s the underlying message here – “with Windows 7, we’re together again and I’m stealing your soul.”
At the same time I feel I must point out I just downloaded iTunes 9, at almost 90mb it’s starting to feel more like an OS than a music player, where’s iTunes Lite? Which then leads on nicely to Apple’s latest OS 3.1 for the iPhone, another beautiful idea from Apple in the form of security when syncing with Microsoft Exchange, until the latest OS all iPhone’s could sync with Exchange even if it required hardware security; that is no longer the case now as anything before the 3GS doesn’t truly support this requirement and will now no longer work with any exchange server that requires it – Apple’s response to this? “Tell your administrator to lower the security requirements” – I kid you not. You can read more here. This is yet another reason I’m happy I don’t have an iPhone, I love owning my own phone and not renting like Apple basically make you do. If I don’t like something on my phone, I change it and am allowed to without fear of my phone being bricked for breaking the ToS; if I want an app, I can download it from anywhere and install it without having to jailbreak my phone. But that’s my ranting over for now, until Apple do something else their sheeple will follow blindly.
The days of true weightlessness on earth are drawing ever closer. NASA has created an anti-gravity field! …just it only works on mice for now. In the picture below, mouse b is floating without the use of anything but magnets – yes magnets.
It turns out superconducting magnets can repel water without almost absolute-zero temperatures. The scale so far is only big enough to levitate small creatures though. Mice, not being the brightest creatures in the world though aren’t sure what to do in this situation, apparently the “first mouse actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster” according to one of the researchers. That would make for an amusing party trick though.
Few more years though and those hoverboards from Back to the Future may just become a reality, that or we’ll all be spinning around in circles in the air wondering how the hell to get down.
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which are joined via LVM (2 lots of mirrored disks, one big “partition” to store stuff on across all 4 disks). Persuading a developer in our office at work that Whitespace is better than PHP or persuading Ben that all graphs are excellent, informative tools would be easier tasks.
It seems that today we’ve managed to solve most of our current MySQL database issues are fixed now too with one very simple change to our Master->Slaves setup – use ROW based binary logging only, not statement. The slaves are now never lagging more than 2-3 seconds behind the master even with thousands of writes per second across around 100 connections.
If I still lived in my old house I’d have this – a penis chandelier. Made by a Dutch company called 
It turns out superconducting magnets can repel water without almost absolute-zero temperatures. The scale so far is only big enough to levitate small creatures though. Mice, not being the brightest creatures in the world though aren’t sure what to do in this situation, apparently the “first mouse actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster” according to one of the researchers. That would make for an amusing party trick though.