As most of you who have used Ubuntu will know, you cannot watch DVDs on systems (even outside the US) without installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras (or their kubuntu or xubuntu siblings) that installs some restricted packages that are illegal in some countries. What is new as of recently, AFAIK, is that you have to download and […]
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Link of the day: America + 1 Get Dave into America!
If there’s a webcomic that literally puts the coffee through my nose and onto the laptop keyboard at work, it’s the awfully funny guys at Explosm whose Cyanide & Happiness as a true work of genius. Just check it: Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net Here’s the deal. We need to get Dave into America! They […]
Truckin' August 2010: Late Summer Edition in the Year we make contact
It’s about that time of the month again! And I’m not some emo LSD chick raving haphazardly about her menstrual cycle, no! Not at all! I’m a man. The Alpha Male. It’s what I told my girlfriend Lady C the other week; "I’m the alpha male, baby." and she did not object. Instead she wrote […]
Jumping on the SharePoint bandwagon TO HELL
Live blogging from a meeting. Excited yet? BORED. We’ve got four salesmen (one female) sitting around the round table selling us their SharePoint solution. We’re one and a half hour into this meeting, which is one of four that I’m required to attend, and I’ve finally come to the realization that it’s a complete waste […]
Two week hiatus vacationgorilla
We’ll be going on a much needed summer holiday tomorrow morning, and won’t be back until mid-August. But there’s no reason to fret! When we come back we will be tanned, hairy and stronger than EVER! … Like this: I put it in my Out of office auto-reply mail at work. Just in case. Yesterday […]
Link of the day: The Best Show in the Universe!
Like I said yesterday, Maddox is releasing his own online TV show! Link of the day: The Best Show in the Universe episode 1 Featuring the careful analysis of youtube’s singing children compared to the originals. Will they do justice to the original? Also, Maddox educates us about Vegans and Assholes with nice graphs. Check […]
Maddox Misc. News
The last couple of years there has been a long, shilling silence on The Best Page in the Universe, except for a dust bunny bouncing between the edges of the monitor. Because dust bunnies are from the wild wild west, and the wild wild west was awesome. Beef jerky, scalping Indians and hand-cocked revolvers? You […]
Truckin' July 2010: I'll be back (next month)
The summer issue of Truckin’ is here! Print it out, fax it to your mother and text it to your friends! It is a versatile literary experiment from a whole range of eco-friendly authors with a seal-clubbin’ hidden agenda. Read more to find out! My friend, poker blogger and published author of Lost Vegas, señor […]
Quick DIY pic update
So, we’ve managed to fix the moulding roses and the window sills for the living room, as well as filled up the gap between the old wood floors so that we can lay out the parquet flooring pretty soon. In addition, I put up the 900x800x100mm siporex firewall in the study. We managed to fit […]
A quick Extreme DIY update
Here are some photos of the current stage of our total renovation: The box in the ceiling has turned out fantastic after Lady C’s 6-8 rounds of spackling. She’s brilliant. I intend to rent her out to parties, where she would even a wall while the children have cake. Grace. Excellence. Superiority. The trademarks of […]