But is it still BLUE? Have you PAINTED IT BLUE? Is your finger due for UNTIMELY MACRO EXPANSION?

And should I start thinking about Smalltalk yet?

PerkinWarbeck.com : Psuedo-philosophy and llama abuse for the underachieving masses!

Sloganeering anyone?

General update: My parser now colour codes, badly, and I still have a hole in my finger.

*resists the urge to comment about the animate/inanimate boundary*, but...

If I don't believe in someone's existence does that make them inanimate, and indeed insubstantial, in my frame of reference?

Or am I spouting a loud of very philosophical and quite helium-flavoured llama poo?

mmmm.... altimeter. What's going to happen with the internal pressure of the helium and the vacuum of space though? Just a thought. I wonder if Rob could find anything weirder to stalk though - inanimate objects are quite an achievement? And I'm really disappointed no-one chose to use the fact that a) we have a llama and b) we have digital cameras to answer the whole llama/high question...



Or we could try a little GISing?

And then I followed a link, which was a really stupid idea, wasn't it? Yes - www.tequillasnortinllamas.com exists.

Apparently Rob watches my rat remotely via ping... Am I the only one who finds this a little bizarre?

As for the llama - <sings, in a squeaky synth voice> ... I always wanted you to go into space man ... </sings>

*brings Lidna's llama into violent conjunction with a large can of compressed helium and an altimeter*

can we find out? :P

can llamas get high? :P

10 PRINT " "
20 GOTO 10

#include <matrix.h>
#undef SPOON

but... why is the spoon gone?

54 68 65 72 65 20 69 73 20 6E 6F 20 73 70 6F 6F 6E 2E

3.1415926535897932384626433832795

HAHAHARTOFLMOA!LLLO¬!

5000128345149!

but... why is the rum gone?

"He's not a llama, he's a pirate!!"

Apologies for cappy's sluggishness these last few days, there's been some fairly major software and hardware maintainance done on it which will probably continue until Sunday.

This is more tech-maggot fare, but I'm posting it here for people who don't read the maggot.

are you refering to the duck or myself? :P

Rob - I found the aphex twin. don't worry about it now. Also, is it me or does that picture of Linda with the duck blink every few minutes or so?

All together now - what is the difference between a duck?

The prat in the hat strikes back!

You wanted a hat with feathers? Well...

mmm... drooooole...

The problem is not mounting dankeffluent in capsicum, the problem is mounting Llabyrinth in its IEEE-1394 case thingy. The mounting screws are too big to go through the 'oles.

As regards CAT5 - fair enough. I'd better bring the CD drive back for her, too. I never did get A/UX working with that drive. Damn boot discs that don't.

Jimmy: Oh dear oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. *hides the plumbing toolkit*

sorry. i am just still traumatised from things wot happened in the distant past. A lot of things. (yes - some involve network cable...)

Pipe-bending? Oh dear.

*looks disappointed*

* Pats the Jimbly *

There, there, it'll all be just fine - I'll keep the Cat5 away from the scary lady and you can get back to your autoerotic pipe-bending :P

b-but you didn't use it did you? n-not like "that"?

(jimmy shudders)

mmm... Cat5 cable :D

I've got a bag with a few sub-ATX size screws in it - some of them even have that obscure washer-style flange that you get on modern bay screws, so I'm sure they'll fit. Besides, we're mounting this in Cappy aren't we? In which case it doesn't matter what we mount it with, provided it holds the disc down - we'll probably have to drill a few holes in the ABS anyway, since Acorn never did get the hang of where to put screw holes :P

BTW, we've also been commanded by a grumpy Becca to put the Internet link to her room in now, or else. My mother agrees. We've run out of Cat5 here, so guess what you and I are going shopping for? Yet more Cat5 and industrial masonry bit silliness ensues.

The buddy movie

   ...

The romantic movie

Certainly I shall. Do you have any disc fixing screws? The ones that came with Llabyrinth (the new 120gig one) are too big. As is my spoon.

The cartoons began to fall apart...

Apologies for the brief outage just then folks - the rat was having a confidence crisis.

And now... Angry ticks fly out of my nipples.

On that note: Rob, I hope you're bringing the 80Gig back with you when you come over...

no, but i brought my llama, will that do?

tuesday's coming. did you bring your coat?

Looks like someone's been at the Don Hertzfelt again...

My spoon is too big.
My spoon.. is too.. big.
My spoon is too big!

   ...

I am a BANANA!

it is?

MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!!!!11

I shall endeavour to sort stuff out when I'm not quite so tired.

Mu.

My thoughts exactly.

It may not apply at all, as all the FTP from the blogger server to Cappy is through the "blogger" user, which (hopefully) can't get at anything but the files it's supposed to publish to.

I hope?

Owwch! Security holes?

* Notices the "Upload file" feature in the new blogger, and the fact that it uses absolute paths on the host server's filesystem *

Surely not a clever idea? Oh, and what privs does the Blogger update server have when poking new content onto Cappy? Might I suggest a bit of careful chmodding on the more critical files - namely the PHP scripts, plus anything above the site "/html/" directory.

* Dislikes 3rd party security holes *

Rob - I accidentally moved (instead of copied) my Aphex Twin to your powerbook. When you're back up later in the month could I have it back please? Thanks.

They're all in LoFi too - hey, bloggerchaps, if you're reading this, can we have HiFi in Safari pls? :-p

Jimmy - was that about impossible dates a BIASprod? The Projekt will continue as soon as I have some time to spend other than eating/sleeping/working. If I can use it as a uni project, even better.

Doubt it though. They like Java, and I'm NO WAY rewriting NQL in Java. Eugh.

I apologize for not being in Soton tonight; it wasn't really going to be worth getting back from the IoW, getting home, getting over to Soton and sitting in a pub for an hour before I had to go home.

And what's happened to Blogger? (This may/may not apply to you if you're on the LOFI interface you get in most IE versions)

Change Time and Date? I wonder if they allow impossible days... :)

I miss McDonalds...

I miss McDonalds...

Must... remove... invisible... <br>...

Rob: sowwy, i would have replied by text but my battery just died :P
hope you're ok, will speak to you soon

James: feel free to meet us anytime after 1pm, will be going home about 11

Ah, the new way to clean mobiles. Irradiate them with clothes.

No, wait...

ETOOMUCHFESTIVEFAIRYLIQUID

ah, the new way to clean clothes....radiate them with a mobile :P

Actually, "this", as you put it, is not too bad. Two hilight/feature colours on a page is fine, especially if they're near-complementary (purple and green almost are). More than two hilight colours just looks messy, but that's just common sense.

Oh, and I'll have a go at a logo if I'm feeling exceptionally keen, but don't hold your breath. I may be moderate at Photoshopping and basic page layout, but I've never purported to have any artistic or design skills as such. *ponders trying sommat in Xara*

Unfortunately due to the fact that my mobile is now very, very, very clean, I can't be contacted by phone for the next few days. Sorry. Not my fault.

The Yahooism was just something that I did that I thought was vaguely amusing; I thought I'd put it up for a day :P The point of redesigning this thing is to try and get rid of the horrible, horrible grey, which seems to appear in even greater quantities every time I change this page. Personally, I'd like to do this, but I'd imagine I'd get objections from the grey-lovers amongst you. When it comes to the little logo with PW2 on it, a) no, I'm not going to use CSS to do it, and b) the original logo, while it was a good idea, and perhaps even "nifty", did actually look really quite bad and amateur; do you think you could spare some time from your rather excellent photoshop phuckery-phooing of kitties to make me a better one in the same style? should be about ~160px wide? :P

I didn't invent the thing of using a hash/pound symbol as the permalink; it's been around for some time as a fairly well used permalink symbol, although exactly where escapes me at this point; it's used quite a bit by the people who were originally involved in Blogger when it first started: Matt Haughey certainly still uses it (he was the blokey who designed all the Blogger.com pages, and who created and runs Metafilter), and I've got a feeling that Jason Kottke (who was also involved... somehow) has something somewhat like it, but his site is currently down so I can't check.

If anyone else wants to compain about my design tyranny, please post it on the Maggot, although if anyone posts anything about making the font sizes smaller I will most probably tell them precisely where to shove it.

It's official! Jimmy kills kittens!

(Sorry, my bad :P)

Errm... People? What was with the random Yahooism when I looked at the page yesterday?

BTW, I disliked both the Yahooism and that horrid table-flavoured layout (the one with the sidebar on the right). This layout (black left-hand sidebar, green gradient headers) is by far the best - stop playing! Oh, and I presume the "#" linkages are a Jimmification - nice touch, we'll allow you that one ;)

Just one thought tho'... What happened to the rather nifty "Perkin Warbeck 2" image that went under the graphic on the sidebar? I rather liked that. If you're gonna use just a plain font like it is ATM, you might as well just use CSS to generate it.

Edit: On second thoughts, I can see why the change in the "PW2" image - makes the column a bit wider, so the text fits better. Still liked the style of the old logo, tho'.

fun games to play in the workplace volume I

follow a paranoid trucker (who hasn't had any sleep for a couple of days) around with an empty wheelbarrow and a determined expression, for about 200 metres. then shout "FUCK!" very loudly and wander off, leaving the wheelbarrow in the middle of the road.

it really works. I tried it.