Disney bought LucasFilm did they? They’ll ruin Star Wars will they? Doubt that. Even fans consider the prequels a low point and I’ve never been a fan of the series myself so this Star Wars Titanic parody made me chuckle. SMBC posted this on the facebook page: “Worrying that Disney will ruin Star Wars is like worrying that a second iceberg will dive down to hit the Titanic.” Star Trek all the way. Fight! (via)
Android
Love the new Android 4.2 Keyboard
I’m a big fan of Swype, an Android keyboard that allows you to swype your finger across the screen to type so when I read on Android Police that Android 4.2 would have a similar feature, and you could install it on a pre-4.2 phone I jumped at the chance. It’s very similar to Swype, picking a word is better and worse. It’s better because it doesn’t block the text window like Swype would on long messages, but it’s not as good at spacing or even guessing the right word sometimes. That latter complaint may improve with time if it […]
Life
I’m standing again
I’m standing at my desk again, and also have a use for my physical media and books again. You won’t prop up a monitor on top of two dozen smartphones..
Games
The Killing Floor Portal Gun
Killing Floor joined the Steam Workshop recently and one of the items added there is a Portal gun that fires real portals. I’ve subscribed to it, must give it a go later!
Ireland
Facebook SMS Spam?
Since early September Facebook has been spamming me by text message. Each message comes from “FACEBOOK”, but I don’t have them in my phone contacts. By ringing them I found out the SMS message came from 32232665, apparently a number they use in many countries. The call never connected so I don’t know if there’s a human at the other end. The first message read Over 150 million people have used the Facebook friend finder. Find the people you care about: http://fb.me/…. while the following three messages are like the one pictured above: There are 9 people you may know […]
Youtube
Youtube makes you stupid
Most of the time I’ll ignore the crazy and stupid comments that appear on Youtube but while listening to Bill Nye on this video I glanced at the comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhCd2P-tfc Oh no. It’s true. Youtube makes you stupid.
Games
The Wonderful End of the World grows Companion Cubes
As part of the Potato Sack promotion last year a number of indie games received updates featuring content from Valve games. I didn’t take much notice of them at the time but I just found out that The Wonderful End of the World got a secret level with companion cubes! Love the cover of the similarly named Portal song!
Web
Hide the annoying IRC bits in Xchat
I’m a big fan of Xchat (Windows version), an IRC client I’ve used for over a decade in Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Here’s some tricks that you might find useful if you use IRC: Hide the join/part/quit messages. If your IRC channel is busy you’ll know how annoying these are. The xkcd wiki has instructions for other IRC clients. All channels: /set irc_conf_mode on One channel: Right click on a channel, “Settings->Hide join/part messages” (src) Hide the “UserX is known as UserY” messages. Users have scripts or use ZNC that will rename themselves when they go away or […]
Humour
The happiest kid on Earth
L’il Bruce Wayne, the happiest kid on Earth. In the final issue of the series following the adventures of this happy child, Bruce visits the theatre with his parents to watch The Mark of Zorro. Happy Times! (via Reddit and more at the-isb)
WordPress
WP Super Cache 1.2
UPDATE! I have just updated the plugin version number to 1.2. Thanks to everyone who tested it! A new version of WP Super Cache is almost out and here are the changes in this full page caching plugin for WordPress. OH! Hang on. Almost out? Yeah. I’m going to release it tomorrow but I would love a couple of hardy folks to try it first. People on the forums have been using the development version for several weeks without incident but I would really appreciate it if a few more tried it before the general public gets it. You know […]