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If Star Trek’s computers were real…

jack — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:24:26 +0000

Posted by a friend of mine on Facebook… I LMAO:

To be more realistic, Star Trek interactions with the computer should have gone more like this:
“Computer, hail the Klingons.”
“What was that?”
“Hail the Klingons!”
“To help me understand you better, please tell me what you just said…..
1) Ale to Vogons
2) Hail on Vulcan
3) Bale for Klingons”
“None of the above!”
“Initiating death from above.”
“No, stop!”
“Coming to full stop.”

Odd attractions

jack — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:03 +0000

I found these fantastic flyers in my hotel lobby this morning.

Alarmingly the Amish Attractions seems to simply consist only of quilts.

The Castle Winery however, sounds pretty impressive with its authentic 12th century, 121000 square foot Tuscan castle consisting of 107 rooms, 8000 tons of hand squared stones, 8 levels (with 4 below ground), 900 feet of caves, a moat, dungeon, a torture chamber, a consecrated chapel and a hand-painted grand hall. Not quite sure how they can claim that the castle is authentic since its sitting in California and built in the 90s.

99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet

jack — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:06:11 +0000

A work colleague just showed me this site (yep its Friday): Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something

Its a fantastic collection of Internet sites and videos. Check it out.

Here are some of my favourites:

Click here to view the embedded video.

The downfall of Agile Hitler

jack — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:51:52 +0000

Very very funny (if you are a developer)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Section 92a Cartoons

jack — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:46:44 +0000

Cartoons by Rod Emmerson, Mike Moreu and Dylan Horrock on Section 92a

Actually I suspect I just broke some copyright laws by posting these images here ;)

Party like its 1234567890

jack — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:02:34 +0000

So one of my colleagues (thanks Matthew) just sent me this link which is so geeky I just had to blog about it.

Apparently on Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 GMT the Epoch time count will read “1234567890″ for the first (and last time).

For those of you who don’t know what Epoch time is (shame on you) it is basically a count of the number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970. Computer systems use this mechanism for storing time because they handle nice big integer numbers very efficiently.

Of course when 2038 rolls around we are all going to be in trouble because the count of milliseconds will be too big to store in the space that most computer systems allocate for storing this time count!

By then of course we should all be using at least 64bit systems so it shouldn’t be a problem and we won’t Y2K48 problem (he says smirking).

If you are planning a “1234567890″ party (you are planning a party right?) then this “countdown” would be ideal to project up onto a wall or show on a big screen :)

Happy holidays from Air New Zealand

jack — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:18:01 +0000

This animation was put together by a couple of the guys in my team here at Air New Zealand.

Happy Holidays everyone…

Air New Zealand Saves Christmas — cartoon from Photon Studios on Vimeo.

BTW see if you can find the easter egg @ http://www.happyholidaysfromairnz.com there may be something in it for you :)

Because its funny…

jack — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:03:15 +0000

“Beached as Bro”

Click here to view the embedded video.

And techno styles

Click here to view the embedded video.

Windows crashes during Olympics opening ceremony

jack — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:05:46 +0000

He he, Just found this article about a blue screen of death (BSOD) during the Olympic opening ceremony on Gizmoda.

Update: Turns out that the giant footstep fireworks were faked ! What a shame, I thought they were one of the best bits of the opening ceremony.

Update: Now it appears that the little singing girl wasn’t singing either !