tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:56:47 +0000Just like the rest of <a href="http://nightfallz.net">nightfallz.net</a>, this blog is "under construction". It's an idea to be toyed with, plus of course everybody else has one ;)http://blog.nightfallz.net/noreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)Blogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-2235721179071966722Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:56:00 +00002010-04-30T00:56:47.170+02:00 This blog is now located at http://nightfallzblog.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://nightfallzblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. http://blog.nightfallz.net/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-5269752722783435391Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:40:00 +00002010-03-02T00:39:52.589+01:00Sunday evening was spent watching Avatar in 3D.To be honest, I wasn't as blown away by the 3D experience as I had half expected to be. Possibly because I've aleady seen it in 2D and rather blown away by the whole otherworldly experience as such (I have a pretty strong three-dee imagination). Possibly because I already knew the plot, the scenery and the characters, and had too much time on myhttp://blog.nightfallz.net/2010/03/ready-for-3d.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-6428584563449807321Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:25:00 +00002009-10-14T17:25:48.582+02:00windowsI was going to install a rather large program, and knew that this would take a while, so I started the installation and went on to do some laundry and other household chores while the computer chugged at it. When I decided that it was about time the installation had finished, it turned out the computer had spontaneously rebooted. Strange, I thought, since the installation was not one that http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/10/windows-will-mess-with-your-mind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-6144572734390101527Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:35:00 +00002009-09-19T02:55:47.475+02:00migratehamachihamachi2LogMeIn has upgraded their Hamachi software from version 1.x to Hamachi². There are major differences between the two programs, and moving your existing setup from one to the other is not as straight-forward as one would wish.Scenario A: You already have Hamachi 1.x installed and runningSimply install Hamachi². It will detect and transfer the account from the old program to the new one. All http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/09/how-to-transfer-your-old-hamachi-1x.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-3271378490707928878Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:05:00 +00002009-09-12T02:18:10.294+02:00As the end titles to Nicolas Cage's "World Trade Center" roll over the TV screen ... The generation before mine were the ones who got asked the question "where were you when Kennedy got shot?". We got the towers.I was at home, just turned on the radio whilst making lunch and getting ready for my late shift at work. There was talk of a plane that had hit one of the Twin Towers. From the sound of http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/09/eight-years-after-wtc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-4457538593136103192Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:16:00 +00002009-08-02T13:24:09.267+02:00If, like me, you have tried Google Earth on a computer with Windows Vista on it, chances are that you've encountered this little problem: Every time you start your computer, up pops a window entitled “Google Earth End User License Agreement” containing a message that says “The web page could not be displayed”, and the stupid thing won't go away. There are many suggestions on the net as to what http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/08/windows-vista-and-google-earth-eula.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-5596329687532880850Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:07:00 +00002009-07-20T01:25:33.834+02:00BBC have posted a series of (at time of writing) 34 clips containing various hightlights from the comedy quiz show QI (Quite Interesting) with Stephen Fry, Alan Davis and others. I've had a great time looking through the list a couple of times already.Click here to play all clips in the playlist. http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/07/highlights-from-qi-on-youtube.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-8908945564898466045Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:05:00 +00002009-07-16T13:37:29.538+02:00 What you get from watching QI video clips on YouTube well into the wee hours of the night. The question asked by Stephen Fry was “How many moons does the Earth have?”, and the answer was not the usual “one” but in fact “two”. Now, I half expected that, with “one” being way too obvious, but the nature of the second moon came as something of a surprise.It's called Cruithne (pronounced “croo-een-yahttp://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/07/how-many-moons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-5547355299240432315Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:00 +00002009-07-15T01:23:31.525+02:00videocartoonwinnie the poohrussianFound these today on YouTube. Very cute, and very different from the Disney version. In Russian, with English subtitles. Watch them one by one below, or click here to play them all in one go.Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3 part 1Episode 3 part 2 http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/07/winnie-pooh-in-russian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-5189037383554395733Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:02:00 +00002009-06-29T21:25:43.040+02:00Kids do say the darndest and even the most ponderous things.Once in a supermarked I stood in line behind a little girl of possibly five or six years. She was about to pay for her purchase with a large handful of small change — too large for her little hands — when she accidentally dropped the entire fortune to the floor with a metallic clatter that only a large handful of small change can make. http://blog.nightfallz.net/2009/06/things-that-kids-say.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-1678279945691073469Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:49:00 +00002008-10-23T13:55:36.699+02:00Again I am getting return messages, "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)", to emails that I never sent in the first place. Their common denominator is that they all refer to viagra and other sexually enhancing or “recreational” pharmaceuticals, to which I have no connection whatsoever. The original messages were never sent by me, but whenever one cannot reach its destination it will be http://blog.nightfallz.net/2008/10/ode-to-spam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-8889180998136399444Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:23:00 +00002008-10-23T13:56:46.610+02:00Know what's really frustrating? Wireless cards that become automatically disabled when you connect a network cable. What's with that? In tech support, where I work, I sometimes need to remote control the client's PC to help set up the wireless connection. Of course, since we're trying to fix the wireless, we need to connect using a network cable while we do the work. Having the wireless unit thenhttp://blog.nightfallz.net/2008/10/rant-mutually-exclusive-wireless-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-3269562015188085249Mon, 26 May 2008 12:43:00 +00002008-10-15T04:35:30.199+02:00 Last night got sorta late. I'm not going to say that nothing can keep me up as late as 3AM; that would have been a lie, but this one time I was glued to the computer screen watching a live NASA webcast of the Phoenix Mars Lander during its last hour or so before touchdown, and the first while just after. With only 5 of the last 11 Mars landings gone well, it was going to be a game of odds not http://blog.nightfallz.net/2008/05/phoenix-has-landed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-3736801815535941004Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:17:00 +00002008-05-26T14:59:40.068+02:00Arthur C. Clarke lived to be 90 years old, and died in Sri Lanka last Wednesday, March 19th, 2008.Gone to follow such names as Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams.Thank you for H.A.L., for the Monolith, for long journeys into the darkness of Space and the depths of the oceans, for making the beauty of fractals comprehensible, and for The Songs of Distant Earth. http://blog.nightfallz.net/2008/03/last-odyssey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-6343572734049485334Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:08:00 +00002008-03-21T00:29:20.654+01:00james bond2007007agent It has been 364 days, and it only occurred to me just now ...Has anyone noticed a lack of anything James Bond-related this year? A James Bond festival of sorts? Agent Of The Year front covers on glossy magazines? Personally I've not heard of as much as a James Bond Lookalike contest, or even a Give Us Your Best James Bond Quote In A James Bond Voice contest on radio.There has, for crying out http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/12/what-happened-with-james-bond-in-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-4516092165331670236Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:24:00 +00002008-01-22T20:51:32.392+01:00cameraixus400 I'm a bit sad, really. I've had this camera for the last few years, four and a half in all, taken thousand of photos with it, and now it has gone and retired itself. It just won't take any more pictures. It's a Canon IXUS 400 which I got in June 2003, and it has been with me just about everywhere I've been since. And I've taken pictures of just about everything I could find. The index number on http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/12/it-just-quit-on-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-9043629130734112892Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:54:00 +00002008-01-22T21:06:04.010+01:00writersspellingwordsAll postsmeaningHow to tell the difference between writers who use a spell-checker, and those who don't:Those who don't, publish articles that have words in them that can't be found in any dictionary, and only your imagination—if anything—can give you clues as to what the writer really intended.Those who do, publish articles that have words in them that certainly exist, but appear in contexts that have nothing http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/12/its-in-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-6738412595623325300Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:03:00 +00002008-01-22T21:08:18.399+01:00It just dawned on me that 1) I hardly ever post anything here, and 2) I've never tried to submit a post from the cellphone. Silly, really, because most of the bloggable thoughts and ideas that I get occur far away from computers with Internet connection and thus slip into oblivion before I get around to typing them in anywhere.Cellphones are neat in that way. Admittedly, they are more like PDA's http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/11/testing-email-posting-from-cellphone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-6417533729334830842Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:33:00 +00002008-01-22T21:09:51.452+01:00Say, have you posted pictures of your children on the web? Then shame on you! At least according to some people.I'm a dad, with two daughters currently eight and fifteen years old. And I've posted a few, not many, pictures of them on the web over the years. Those pictures are publicly available, thus making my children targets for pedophiles and other child molesters. Even though said pictures http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/06/pictures-of-your-kids-on-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-8905031188027934897Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:46:00 +00002008-01-22T21:13:01.448+01:00So now, apparently, American Creationists, formerly as far as I know condemning everything that everyone has ever said about there having been dinosaurs and saying themselves that all those fossils and stuff is just a big hoax, seem to have made a little bit of a turnaround and now claim that not only did the dinos exist, they existed in fairly recent times, because as we all know the Earth was http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/06/dinosaurs-on-ark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-4399069588868494633Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:56:00 +00002008-01-22T21:15:25.806+01:00Birds are charming little creatures. Every spring they come out and start singing so that we shall know that winter is no more.This morning I had a problem with my access card at work. I slid the card through the slot and punched my four digit code in the usual manner. Over and over again I got the message that my code was wrong.And then, slowly, I started to wake up. Don't you hate it when that http://blog.nightfallz.net/2007/03/dreaming-myself-awake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-116067097181677560Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:31:00 +00002008-01-22T21:17:58.817+01:00Yesterday I got my first ever Nigeria phonecall!This lady called and spoke in heavily accented English (possibly African) and said that "a friend or colleague or business associate of yours has contacted us to suggest that we make you a business proposition". She said she worked for a company whose name I couldn't for the life of me descipher, but the word "Africa" snook in there without http://blog.nightfallz.net/2006/10/ive-been-nigeriaed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-112868386259126922Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:07:00 +00002008-01-22T21:20:04.176+01:00Just to spite today's headache I've taken to work on the other computer again. It's a game of stubbornness. I've yet to locate the source of the "hardware failures" I've gotten lately, and the machine is stripped down to bare basics – I've removed everything that isn't 100% necessary to keep the thing running, all except the mainboard (which technically is the computer), one harddisk and a CD-ROMhttp://blog.nightfallz.net/2005/10/curses-of-technology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-112639805383290569Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:13:00 +00002008-01-22T21:21:40.283+01:00It's just past midnight on Sunday, September 12th, and in less than forty-two hours I'll have to do my civic duty and hand in my vote to ensure that we have the right people running the country for the next four years.Tough.This may not be as well-articulated and consistent as I would like it to be, since I'm rather tired at 2am and would probably have been better off sleeping. But what the heck,http://blog.nightfallz.net/2005/09/bothered-by-democracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15396629.post-112401875247741834Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:19:00 +00002008-01-22T21:23:04.317+01:00How many is it that I have now? Lots. There's the TV, the VCR, the DVD, the hi-fi, a separate one for the CD player, the satellite receiver ... I think that should cover at least most of them. Not only is that a whole lot of buttons, it's at least six gadgets to keep track of. Sometimes just remembering where you put them is hard enough. And even when you have them right there in front of you, http://blog.nightfallz.net/2005/08/remotes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (inShadowz)0