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[thedarkproject]

Found on Reddit: "I created a website so our executives could monitor the status of our web servers. They requested I improve it so they could "see it better" when Tomcat crashes. This is what awaits them... " (video link)

On BBC News: Living alone costs singletons an extra £250,000 over a lifetime compared to couples, it is claimed. Any pretty girls volunteering to save us both some money? ;)

Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution Preview . The original Deus Ex is the game I'm currently spending most of my time on, and it's good in many ways to hear that the second sequel is much like the first game. There are some warning signs in there though, and ultimately I'm still unhappy that we just take one company's creation and pass it to a completely different company to make a follow-up. We need to do more to protect the people who come up with the real creativity.

Google Wave is shutting down. It was an interesting idea but it seemed to be trying to do too much, and not well enough. Still, I'd like to see an email replacement one day. Shame this wasn't it.

Some of you may be familiar with lmgtfy, the site you send someone to when they ask you a question that they could have easily answered themselves with a web search. It turns out that there is a live updating version so that the wider world can see exactly what things people are asking about, or rather, the things some people are grumpy at being asked about.

I also found myself on the Transformers Wiki recently and was impressed at how all the memories came flooding back when I read through some of the summarised storylines. All the different continuities and stuff makes me angry though. Series 'reboots' and 'non-canon' stories just seem wrong. I think all works of fiction should be entirely self-consistent. This probably marks me as a geek. Or mildly autistic.

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Singletons

[(Anonymous)]

I have two spare rooms if you'd like to take up residence in Wiltshire?! Haha, the price we pay for freedom, eh? I suspect, based on past relationships, it's worth £250,000 to me! lol x

Re: Singletons

[thedarkproject]

I'm guessing that's you kalliopoiea, not logged in? :P

[tripletakeover.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I've never been to Transformers Wiki before, and I'll bet that's not blocked at work. Thank you for providing my evening's entertainment!

I'm currently working my way through the Marvel US comics, but I can't take them to work because they're on my laptop, and whilst I'm sure no-one would bat an eye to my taking it in to work and having it on at my desk, I don't want it about my person for the walk to work as I may never see it again. As for the continuity issues, well, yes I agree that it's a shame, but I appreciate the different versions for different reasons. I largely haven't bothered with the recent incarnations, but I think the fact that there have been so many just show what an impact Transformers had on our generation; even now people want to keep it going and put their stamp on it. Even though some of them ought to be shot for it, naming no names *cough*MichaelBay*cough**cough*

[nostalgiaplatz.livejournal.com]

The increased living expenses associated with being single = massive bugbear (yes, BUGBEAR) of mine. Sometimes I feel that we singletons should get some kind of housing subsidy. But I'm too conservative to actively promote anything of the sort. :/

Also, that is the kind of notion that someone who has had four bottles of cider would come up with. Boy is my face red!

[bloggerofdeath.livejournal.com]

I think a big problem with wave was... well apart from almost nobody having heard about it, they tried to attach it to the wrong thing. It would have done far better imo if they had attempted to piggyback it onto a social networking site/application set.