Fun with XML
http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/vocab/reading/en-fi-1.xml.
You will need a fairly new browser to seethis properly.
Whether I can be bothered to make a whole website out of this, mirroring (and possible helping) my own attempt to learn Finnish, who knows…
Gary Lineker in bad taste?
I was watching They Think it's All Over on UKGold last night when Gary Lineker of all people came up with a nasty joke, outdoing even Rory.
In the round they had to identify which of a series of grunts came from Monica Seles:
Guest: "Are these grunts from when they were playing tennis?"
Rory "When else do women grunt?"
Gary "Well, when they get stabbed..."
Just to bring the tone down even further, you keep wine in wine cellars, beer in beer cellars and knives in...
I apologise to Monica Seles for any offence cause and will remove the above post if she asks personally. :P]]>
BBC gives new talent a chance…
The fact that the proper staff are on strike obviously has nothing to do with it.]]>
Free stuff from Microsoft…
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/
They won’t stay completely free though. Once the products leave beta they will supposedly be available for $49 each. Which is still affordable for us students though 
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Mobile phones send people insane…
Well the two aren't really related I suppose. Most of the people who buy stuff over the internet are under 18 and don't havea credit card so they don't really have a way to pay for stuff over the internet. So I'll rephrase:
Why do people pay for stuff on their phones when the same stuff is free on the internet?
I was looking in a magazine (a TV guide) and you could do a numerology love test for £1. Just text your name and your (possibly) beloved's name and get a percentage back. There are hundreds, possibly more, of those on the internet completely free so why would you ever pay a quid for it?
The other thing that got me was the advert had most popular ringtones. Why would you want one of the most popular ringtones? I thought the whole point of a custom ringtone was so your phone didn’t sound like everyone elses (although a train completely full of crazy frogs would have a certain humour about it).
Maybe people between 16 and 18 are just more prone to idiocy…
Or maybe this isthe evidence that mobile phones cause brain damage…]]>
Hooray for Galloway
Despite this, his appearance in front of a committee of senators in America was hilarious:
I think the best part was the accusation that he’s met with Saddam Hussein several times. As he points out he has met Saddam the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld
Odd PHP problem
function hex2rgb($hex)
{
for($i=0; $i<3; $i++)
{
$temp = substr($hex,2*$i,2);
$rgb[$i] = 16 * hexdec(substr($temp,0,1)) + hexdec(substr($temp,1,1));
}
return $rgb;
}
function hex2rgb($hex)
{
for($i=0; $i<3; $i++)
{
$temp = substr($hex,2*$i,2);
$rgb[$i] = 16 * hexdec(substr($temp,0,1)) + hexdec(substr($temp,1,1));
}
return $rgb;
}
But not the error you might expect. PHP doesn't even get to complain about redeclaring a function with the same name since the second function is full of parse errors.
I have a vague idea what the problem is but I'm not sure. Any takers? :P
Sorry about the dodgy display...]]>
I quite like JavaScript
The following works perfectly in Firefox and works slightly less well in IE6.
http://brownab1.miniserver.com/reborn/demo.php
To use just click and drag. Or in IE6 press the button, drag then press again.
Let’s get personal again…
Julia is coming over on Thursday. In fact she's bringing her sister Jaz too. Infact it would be more accurate to say Jaz is bringing Julia since Jaz iscoming over to meet a guy (something they apparently have in common is a thing for British guys). This will lead to a few interesting situations:
Firstly they'll be both be staying in my room on at least one night (two I think). This isn't actually that interesting inherently (from my point of view it will make Julia's stay less interesting) but it may look odd to anyone who notices us enter my room.
We’re meeting Piia, one of their friends who lives near London on Friday – the day I have my dance class which they’ve decided they’ll apparently watch. So I turn up to a dance class with an entourage. One that will no doubt be speaking Finnish.
Finally there are people around the campus I probably won’t be able to hide them from. It’s not that I’m trying to hide them from these people as such, it’s just I try to avoid these people myself (not for any good reason I just don’t want to talk to them).]]>
Things you notice…
http://www.xhtmlfriends.net/xfn/page/http://www.vikingkarwur.com]]>