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Java 4 Ever trailer
This might be a bit geeky for most but for those that get it it’s very well done and funny.
Keep calm and carry on
The BBC on their Magazine website in February asked if this was “the greatest motivational poster ever”.
Apparently, 2,500,000 copies were printed but weren’t distributed; at least not widely.
The Keep Calm and Carry On “motivational poster” was created in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II as a last case scenario to be used in the event of the Nazis succeeding in invading the UK.
It’s the stuff of good old, stiff-upper-lip British resolve. Keeping the chin up in the face of adversity.
Updated for web developers
Which got me thinking. This would be a perfect companion to .net magazine‘s Bring Down IE 6 campaign.
The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out.
But what if it’s not? What if Internet Explorer 6 carries on being supported for years and years to come. What if companies, and schools and universities don’t drop it for something better, something newer? What do we do then?
Well, that’s where my new A4 poster comes in:
We just keep calm and carry on!
Download
- Keep Calm and Debug IE6 A4 poster (50 KB, PDF)
Creative Commons Licence
Keep Calm and Debug IE6 by Gareth J M Saunders is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
Based on a work at blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk.
The LibDems safeguarding your money
It’s the European Parliamentary election on Thursday so we’ve been getting the usual steady stream of political party leaflets through the door.
I was just about to throw into the recycling this one from the Scottish Liberal Democrats when the photo of Sir Menzies Campbell MP and Iain Smith MSP standing at a Royal Bank of Scotland Cashline (ATM) machine caught my eye.
Here it is enlarged:
Can you spot what the problem is with this photograph?
It would appear from this photograph that our local Member of the Scottish Parliament doesn’t know how to use a Cashline machine. He’s trying to poke his bank card into the slot that the money comes out of!
Look! According to this illustration from the RBS website there’s even a diagram on the machine to show you where to put your card, along with the written instruction “Insert here”:
(Source: RBS MoneySense for Schools)
I’m presuming that the Liberal Democrats’ policy for introducing international action to safeguard your money doesn’t simply rest on their inability to use the machines that would help them get the money out of the bank again!
Wikipedia names your band
What a great meme, spotted on Ricky Carvel’s blog: Wikipedia names your band.
Here are the rules:
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Band name
Go to a random Wikipedia article. The name of the article becomes your band name. -
Album title
Next go to Random Quotations. The last 4-5 words of the last quotation on the page are your the title of your first album. -
Album cover
Now go to Flickr’s Explore the last 7 days and choose the third picture. This will be your album cover. -
Final article
Finally put them all together and you have an album cover.
I’ve just done it three times. I think I’ve found my new hobby!
Earl of Sefton Stakes – “Can’t hear what they say?”
Photo credit: liao,che-yi
This is the first one I created. It was a bit too disturbing, so I signed to another record label, changed the name of the band and ended up with our new album …
Vydra – “Men just need a place”
Photo credit: *ailicec*
Vydra did really well, reaching number 51 in the alternative rock charts. The NME said that we were quite literally “a peg above the rest” but disaster struck when the drummer left to start his own laundry business.
But not one to stay down I found another bass player, changed our name once again, and released …
Akreavenek Island – “Affirmatively says nothing”
Photo credit: Rock the pixel
Akreavenek Island are your typical rock/metal crossover act, somewhere between Sigur Rós and Rammstein meets Extreme Noise Terror and Celine Dion. We cover mostly ballads. But with more shouting and white noise than the originals. Available now in no good record stores.
The best job in the world?
My friend Iain has applied for what is being dubbed “The Best Job in the World“: The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
Not sure how it can be, to be honest, given that the best job in the world is to be working within the Web Team at the University of St Andrews!
Anyway, that dispute aside, potential applicants are asked to upload a video, photograph and video of themselves (no longer than 60 seconds) to the website.
Here’s Iain’s … erm, offering. Check it out, it’s a work of genius!
Or you can check it out within the context of The Best Job in the World website.
Re-focus your eyes on a distant object
Last month I had to do an online health and safety assessment exercise that determined my understanding of health and safety matters to do with sitting at a desk all day staring at a PC monitor. I’m happy to report that I scored 100%.
As part of the instructional part of the exercise I was shown the following image:
It’s of a man, an office-worker we are to assume, sitting at a desk, in front of a PC and beneath him it reads:
Every 20 minutes or so, re-focus your eyes on a distant object to allow your eye muscles to relax.
and there’s a call-out with an image of the Arc de Triumph!
Re-focus your eyes on a distant object it says. My word! What kind of eyesight did they expect me to have that I should have to gaze at the Arc de Triumph from St Andrews?! Google Maps UK reckons that’s over 760 miles. Hardly relaxing!
This week we are been mostly re-focusing our eyes on the Grand Canyon.