Monthly Archives: April 2005

What I've Been Doing

Aaaah the sweet taste of self-ridicule

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banjoboyI’ve tried all morning to think of something witty to say about this picture – I guess it speaks for itself.

However to anticipate the obvious questions: It was an awayday, it was about 1 o’clock in the morning, I was stone cold sober, and that’s not my hat.

If you don’t want awaydays that include such things, don’t hire me.

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Thanks to Angela Morgan for the pic.

[Update: I’m reliably informed, by our Loughborough correspondent, that “daft apeth” should read “daft ‘ap’orth”. I apologise unreservedly to any daft ‘ap’orths to whom I have inadvertantly caused any offence or distress.]

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Paris in April – haven’t we seen enough of this girl’s RSS?

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Thanks to Sam Curtis Coutin on the yahoo podcasters list for this not very permalink which leads to this

and lets us know that one of the finest minds of the 21st Century is about to start podcasting, no doubt fired up by the success of her previous forays into decentralized media. Turns out it’s part of the promo for her new movie “House of Wax”. As Eric Weaver followed up on the same list, “Podcasting just got very UNCOOL :(”

You still have time to head for the hills, it’s not officially starting until April 29th but till then there’s a teaser on the House of Wax site.

Pass the sick bag.

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What I've Seen

Now that is cool

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I’m on the switchback this morning that is Google’s GMail April Fool offering.

Blah Blah Blah, it’s our birthday and we want to do something special, blah

“The result?… starting today, we’re beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

* Write, don’t worry.
You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

* The gift that keeps on giving.
1126.096746 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.

* No complicated equations. No tough algorithms.
Just this one graph: ”

with the meg of storage counter rapidly shooting upwards and then a cute scribbled-napkin graph showing Google going beyond the theoretical limit and giving us infinity *plus* one MB per user.

Ha ha, funny joke for nerds and non-nerdy maths students alike.

So check out the new features page and you see that they’re actually giving us 2MB. Thanks guys – you still have some evil tendencies, but giving us a present on your birthday and making a funny April 1 joke shows part of you still cares a bit.

But what stopped me getting in the shower and got me posting was the fact that that storage counter is actually telling the truth. Everytime I refresh my inbox, the counter at the bottom tells me I’ve got another few kilobytes of storage, exactly in line with that counter on the front page. Oh nerd heaven.

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