January 31st, 2007
I was riding up from Anglesea over the weekend when I was talking with Relle about some old shows that I loved to watch in the 80′s. One in particular entered my head as being something I would like to see again and I could not remember the name of it. All I could remember was that it involved kids solving crime using computers, how hard could that be to find?
First thing I found was an 80′s tv website over @ http://www.series-80.net/us/ with has over 123 TV Shows from the 80′s. Then I had to review the shows it had, and found other classics like The A Team, Street Hawk, The Fall Guy and Air Wolf. Towards the end I found what I was looking for Whiz Kids.
It is desrribed as “Richie, Ham, Jeremy and Alice are teenagers living outside Los Angeles. They are also computer hackers who worked as amateur detectives in their spare time. Llewellen Farley is a reporter who is a source for the kids and sometimes asks them for help on stories he is writing. Farley’s brother-in-law is Lieutenant Quinn who also provides the kids with help.” So next on my travels was to find a video of it, and I found some on You Tube, mainly shot from a video camera in front of the TV, and so in desperation I wanted to find the episodes online. Thank god for isoHunt as it had 1 guy with a torrent to the episodes, but @ over 7 gig in size it is a little to large to download in one hit.
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January 31st, 2007
Kope Luwak-gourmet coffee from Indonesia from beans digested by an animal-Truth!:
Kopi Luwak does exist, is very expensive, and is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of an Indonesian animal, but it’s more like a cat than a monkey. According to a feature article by the Manila Coffee House, which sells the stuff, the people who harvest the digested beans don’t really have to pick through cat litter to get it. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung.
The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The scientific name is paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
According to the Manila Coffee House, the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat’s intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers.
At this point, most of the beans are purchased by Japanese buyers.
Well I never. If this takes up in Melbourne then I guess that there would be no problems with people drinking recycled water. I guess this is something Bracksie will pull out to say that we should not do this, as who wants to drink water that has gone through somebdoy 9 times? Oh I guess that would be me as I come from London, where the water is recycled and I have had no side effect yet!
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January 24th, 2007
Free Internet Phone Service From AIM Phoneline – Free Local Phone Number:
I got me one of those phone numbers that allows anybody to call me on +1 310 601 5826 and talk to me. Wonder if I will get a call from the President of the United States congratulating me on this new number. Or could I get a missed dial call from somebody trying to dump their partner of 3 years because they discovered they were sleeping with Elmo (not the the doll but the voice actor).
I don’t mind what you say it is all in good fun.
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January 23rd, 2007
Yay, IsoHunt is back. Hop over to http://www.isohunt.com/ to find out all the news.
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January 22nd, 2007
YouTube – Deliver-cat
Not sure what this cat is trying to do, as i have never seen one carrying something in its mouth before. They are also some amazing balancer too.
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January 22nd, 2007
I was watching The Money Pit on Channel Ten yesterday, when during the ads they have their News Update. The first article in this was about Hilary Clinton announcing her run for President of the USA. Now I am not normally politically minded, but this one struck a cord with me.
When Bill was President his wife was known as The First Lady, but if the tables were reversed what would Bill be called? I asked Relle for her opinion as I initially thought “The First Man”, which was what she thought too, and then it became “The First Gentleman”. However I am not sure, so in times of trouble I go to Yahoo Answers. This is what I have found.
So far the general consensus is “The First Gentleman”, although I am not sure if this in an appropriate considering his past. Wonder if I get any Secret Service investigating me for this question?
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January 19th, 2007
I just chose a random place in London in both maps.google.com and then decided to view it in local.live.com to see the difference.
http://maps.google.com/ vs http://local.live.com/
From what I can see there is not much in the way of difference. I do live local.live.com ability to find landmarks quicker, but I prefer maps.google.com anyday.
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January 19th, 2007
Today is a sad day, as my favourite Torrent Search Engine has been temporarily shutdown. It is not the end of the world as there are others out there, but IsoHunt was the best. I have often wondered how it works, never to really figure it out, as if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Perhaps I will use it as a development exercise to learn how to do this.
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January 17th, 2007
Web Developer | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation:
Another handy tool I use to help me figure out issues with HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.
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January 17th, 2007
alphaWorks : JAR Class Finder : Overview:
A tool to aid in finding classes in JAR’s. Works in Eclipse 3.1+, although there is a version for lesser versions on there too.
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