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Y zero K problem

Gareth — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:12:45 +0000

Translated from a Latin scroll dated 2BC

Dear Cassius:

Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?

This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven’t much
time left.

I don’t know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards.

You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left it
to us to sort out at this last minute. I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He
was livid that Julius hadn’t done something about it when he was sorting out
the calendar.

He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty.

We called in Consultus, but he simply said that continuing downwards using
minus BC won’t work and as usual charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.

Surely we will not have to throw out all our hardware and start again?
Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I suppose.

The money lenders are paranoid of course! They have been told that all usery
rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take out loans.
Its an ill wind ……

As for myself, I just can’t see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards. We
have also heard that there are three wise men in the east who have been working
on the problem, but unfortunately they won’t arrive until it’s all over.

I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at the turn
of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to run backwards,
causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of life. Some say the
world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.

Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem. I
will send a parchment to you if anything further develops. If you have any
ideas please let me know.

Vale
Plutonius

Wall-E

Gareth — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:58:50 +0000

4.5 Stars, Best Bits: The particle effects and the fact that the blue circles on Eve’s face can show so many emotions.
Watched on 1/01/2009.

WordPress 2.7 has arrived

Gareth — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:40:25 +0000

WordPress version 2.7 is now available, with a brand new backend with many enhancements including editing and replying to comments, QuickPress – a way to post direct from the dashboard, the return of Press This – a bookmarklet that will let you post about any website without having to go to your blog, and much more.

A video about the new version can be seen here, and even more about the new release can be read on the WordPress Dev Blog.

New domain, new hosting and now greener!

Gareth — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:34:03 +0000

So here we are with a whole bunch of new things

A new theme, based off BLAMatic which is a child theme of the Themeatic Framework.
New domain toastedsourdough.com.
And now SourDough2.0 is hosted on green powered servers by Cove.

Enjoy the freshly toasted SourDough2.0!

Enter key doorbell

Gareth — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:31:47 +0000

An Enter key doorbell for all the geeky households.

Another Elephant Joke.

Gareth — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully.He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.

Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenage son.As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing.The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant.Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn’t the same elephant.

A new web browser – from Google

Gareth — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:05:27 +0000

Google have released a web browser, Google Chrome it uses the Webkit rendering engine (same as Safari) so there shouldn’t be much more work for web developers compatibility wise, which is good.
Although personally I’m not sure about this browser, it doesn’t have anything really ’special’ and is missing some things like page zooming, it might be good to integrate it with Google’s other services as well.

It is in beta at the moment so lets hope it can get better, more info at the Googleblog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

Chocolate Cake in 5 Minutes!

Gareth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:39:40 +0000

I really have to try this microwave chocolate cake http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes. Looks great!

SourDough2.0 – Now iPhone Friendly!

Gareth — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:56:31 +0000

With the release of the new 3G iPhone I have made the blog iPhone friendly, so go get an iPhone and have a look!

(Will also work on iPod touch)

A system call that should never fail has failed

Gareth — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:04 +0000