Yesterday, we went to Leeds to do some shopping in preparation of our upcoming big day (yes, getting married soon!) At lunch time we decided to go get some food and a drink, we wanted to go to Starbucks but both the Border’s Starbucks and the actual Starbucks shop on the street were packed (20+ … Read More “Costa Coffee Leeds – Unhelpful and Very Dirty/Unhygienic” »
Year: 2009
I love the Muppets, always have, always will. So I was delighted to find this on Youtube. It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody re-imagined by the muppets. Not sure if it’s actually new, but the 1080p quality certainly is new and it is pretty stunning to watch it stream. Enjoy!
I watched 9 last night and while it certainly was emotional, I was left feeling somewhat let down and confused at the end of it. I’m going to talk about specifics in the film here so if you’ve not seen it yet and intend to, don’t ready anymore. It starts off with a guy creating … Read More “9 – Interesting film – Not sure about it.” »
A few months ago at work we realised the need for lots of “nodes” (servers) in the UK and in the US initially. We have a lot of data processing that we need to do and we worked out it would be faster and cheaper if we could distribute the work over lots of servers … Read More “Superb VPS (Virtual Private Server) Provider – VPS.net Review” »
I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides … Read More “For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager” »
As I’m currently lacking in things to post, here’s a cat doing the robot… Hopefully I’ll actually come up with something slightly more substantial in a day or two!
It seems the large hadron collider has had no end of problems, which led some people to believe it was due to something in the future time travelling into the past to prevent its launch. But now it seems that it’s almost there as initial tests have finally succeeded. CERN, the Swiss facility where the … Read More “Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only two weeks away from real experiments, hopefully” »
Square Enix have put up a new video with interviews and a few unseen sections of FFXIII on the site which you can view here. But most importantly, they’ve announced the US/Europe release date as the 9th March 2010, not that far away really! It is now also available for pre-order at Amazon, be sure … Read More “Final Fantasy XIII Official Release Date Announced, 09th March 2010!” »
What can only be described as a human function, this thermal image at first glance looks like something from space, captured by a telescope….then you realise it’s just a man’s butt while farting and your world comes crumbling down.
John Tartaglia‘s Imaginocean!, a new family musical set in the depths of the ocean, will debut November 20 on Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas. Donna Drake directs the production. Conceived and written by Tartaglia, with music by William Wade, the show follows the adventure of a group of fish friends, who … Read More “John Tartaglia’s ‘Imaginocean!’ to appear on the Oasis of the Seas” »