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Month: December 2002

Friday Group Therapy: Friday the 13th

December 14, 2002
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leathercouch.jpgYep, I’m trying to continue the Friday Group Therapy thing that I joined last week. And, strangely enough, this weeks questions are orientated around Friday the 13th…

  1. How is Friday the 13th treating you so far?
    Well, I have to confess I spent most of the day asleep. I didn’t go to bed until around 6am on Friday morning (just couldn’t feel tired) – and then I slept right through until around 3.30am Saturday morning.
  2. What kind of luck do you usually have? Good, bad, a mix of both?
    I have to say, that I usually seem to have a mixture of luck. I haven’t won the lottery, but then neither have I been involved in a major accident: the worse one that I can recall is when I was travelling back on the school bus to home, we turned a narrow country lane, and due to the icy conditions a car (also coming round the corner, but from the opposite direction) hit the bus (just underneath from where I was sitting) and caused it to go into a ditch. We all had to climb out the back emergency exit. No one was injured, luckily, but the car was a write-off and the bus had to be off the road for a couple of weeks for repairs.
    Although, if any one “with influence” is reading this, I could do with a bit more good luck at this point…
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Net: Friday the 13th

December 14, 2002
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[Friday the 13th]Yep, I failed to blog yesterday. No – I’m not suffering from paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) or triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) – I just over-slept a bit. Going to bed at 8am (after 24 hours staying awake) and then sleeping for 18hours means that you sleep throughout the day and kinda miss the opportunity to blog (among other things).

So – to make up a bit for it, here are thirteen facts (ok, if you were to space them out, you’ll perhaps have more than 13, but 🙂 ) about the number 13 and Friday the 13th in particular…

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Weird: Male Genitalia: Part The Deux

December 12, 2002
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[Purple Helmet Warrior]Yep, there’s a continuation from yesterday’s Male Genitalia post. It’s just that Neil‘s comment reminded me of a few songs I had heard concerning it, so may I present:

The Penis Song – by Monty Python
A nice little ditty – imagine Noel Coward performing it whilst playing a piano.

and

Pet Names For Genitalia – by Tom Green.
This song is often thought to be by one of my favourite artists: Weird Al Yankovic, but it’s not from him! Yes – that’s how I came across the song: I got sent it and was told it was by Al…

Unfortunately, despite listening to quite a bit of Jasper Carrott and searching the net, I’ve found no reference (well, apart from someone remarking to someone else “Did you see Jasper Carrott last night then?”) to the Jasper Carrott recital that Neil mentioned. If anyone can give me a clue (say, for example, a line of lyrics or something) then I can see what I can do.

Women – don’t worry about “missing out” with all the mention of penises – your time will cum. (And there ends today’s course in double innuendos).

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Techy: New Directory Enquiry numbers

December 12, 2002
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[A Phonebook with two phones]As you may have heard on Tuesday, the new replacement UK directory enquiries telephone numbers are now live (since I’m on OFTEL‘s mailing list, I get advanced notice 🙂 ). Basically the 192 and 153 DQ (directory enquiries) numbers are going to be phased out by the end of next year (August 2003 to be precise) to be replaced with numbers starting with “118” provided by third parties and the “incumbents” (such as BT, NTL:, Orange – basically all those provides who currently provide the 192 DQ number service only on their own lines).

One of the interesting things to note, is that according to OFTEL if you have any complaints you “contact ICSTIS, the premium rate services regulator.” Why is that interesting? Well, OFTEL’s saying the new DQ services are premium rate and ICSTIS state: “All UK-based premium rate services must be advertised on ‘090’ dialling codes” (their emphasis). Hmm – me thinks that the two regulators need to communicate a bit better between each other….

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Blog: MT-RefSearch v0.7

December 12, 2002
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[MT-RefSearch]Woo! After several days of work, I’m proud to announce the release of MT-RefSearch v0.7. Inspired and based on the original version by Eliot Landrum, this new version not only recognises Google but also over 240 other search engines. (The “official” homepage of MT-RefSearch is still on Eliot’s site by the way). You can also see Eliot’s announcement of the release.

Basically, MT-RefSearch is a PHP script and Javascript which you can include MovableType powered site, and when people come to your site from one the 243 listed search engines, they will be presented with the most appropriate search results from your site.

Any comments, criticisms, problems, ideas etc – please feel free to comment here and I’ll do my best to assist. I will be adding even more search engines to the ‘scan list’ (I did mention to Eliot I was aiming to get it over the 500 mark, but ‘upgrades’ to the main bulk of the code stopped me getting that far) – so keep checking either my blog or Eliot’s “official” MT-RefSearch site for future updates….

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