* Posts by Jon Double Nice

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Apathy comes easy to OpenAjax Alliance

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I like jquery alot

But that's not really ajax I guess, although it is a library. Adobe Spry is pretty natty. It has very good documentation which is the hardest thing to come by for an AJAX framework.

Mono delivers Foundation-free open .NET alternative

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I think its interesting

so there.

Postman Pat goes postal

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We need some kind of

post apocalypse 'Pigeon Street', perhaps the pigeons could be sentient, and have robotic pigeon minions to carry out their will, a bit like battle star galactica, but with pigeons, you know?

Perhaps they could use 'Bertha' as their kind of like robot minion pigeon production unit or something.

David Blaine tw*tdangle ends in controversy

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I think

that Mr Blaine has a fetish for prolonged exhibitionistic catheter based public urination, and that this sort of behaviour really shouldn't be encouraged.

Artemis Fowl scribe to pen sixth Hitchhiker's novel

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Flame

His first reaction...

was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series.

Followed by loud 'ka-ching!'.

To paraphrase Mr Beeblebrox: "This is so unhip I'm surprised their bums don't fall off."

OMFG, what have you done?

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I didn't read all the comments above...

and I'm kinda late to the party obviously, but what is the gripe with fixed width layouts? Is scrolling really such a chore?

I'm viewing this on a 1680 x 1050 monitor, so if you have a site which is 100% width, I find it impossible to read if I set the browser window to full screen. In fact I'd resize the window to approximately A4 paper style aspect to read it.

I think the new layout looks nice, and you included a reg tombstone icon for the comments for all the people who are unimpressed to use.

This new icon because I think it looks happy.

Prototype orbital seaplane in Texan blimp-base blast

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Anti submarine blimps?

Like the ones you see in war films that they used to float up so that aeroplanes would catch on them?

This has to be the most outside the box DARPA concept ever - "I know. Lets try and catch submarines, by floating big balloons up in the air. Balloons tethered by cables so that if the submarine catches on the cable, it'll cause it to crash and burn. Its the one place that the submarines will never expect us to try to catch them: UP IN THE FRIKKIN SKY!"

Or maybe I missed the point of this somehow...

Jeery Jerry loves Vista, y'know

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Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld

He still gets about, I saw him doing standup at Ceasars Palace just a few weeks ago.

Otherwise I think he just spends his time buying Porsches using the $100 million or so he made selling his series on DVD.

Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

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'Marketing & Advertising'

From 'Arizona Bay'

by Bill Hicks, go listen to it. I'm not entirely sure he'd be happy about this Crowe vehicle.

NASA spies liquid in Titanic lake

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In other news

Prog Rock album cover discovered on Titan

Blinking to replace remote controls, claims Japanese boffin

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On the subject of Being John Malkovitch

They should remake this, only with Keith Chegwin instead. The bit where he goes inside his own head would be priceless:

'Chegwin Chegwin Chegwin'

'Chegwin?'

'Chegwin'

'Chegwin...'

'Chegwin Chegwin'

'Chegwin'

'CHEGWIN!!!"

Mines the original 'Cheggers Plays Pops' cagoul.

SF's silent sysadmin pleads not guilty

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Please proceed to reveal your password...

...and then there will be cake.

Not entirely relevant, I just felt like saying it.

Chinese 419er punts a whopping $8

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Micro 419-ing

Perhaps he saw how that guy made loads of money scamming micropayments, and has ingeniously applied the idea to his own field of expertise.

Researchers dig into x86 chips for stealthier rootkits

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Wouldn't Macs be the perfect target for this?

They're on x86 chips aren't they? Plus you're guaranteed to have the same component bits and bobs in each box, so you need to write less drivers and what nots.

How you get it installed is another matter though I guess.

US dairyman inaugurates bovine biogas plant

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Shouldn't that be '5000

arses of cattle'...?

Tarantino plans Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! remake

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TARANTINO EQUALS FAIL!!!!!

That is all really. Lets face facts, it was all down hill after Pulp Fiction.

US-Iranian naval clash: Radio trolls probably to blame

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@GMDSS?

Just like in the films: Computer - enhance that and get a fix on it...

RealPlayer users warned over unpatched vuln

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Shouldn't people just be warned against using RealPlayer?

... there - somebody had to say it.

Drivers on the phone face the slammer

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@Nige

I think, as Alan Partridge pointed out, that the correct plural form is 'Lexi'.

Bah, I have no evidence other than the anecdotal, but as a cyclist, car drivers on their phones are pure evil.

Beeb censors Fairytale of New York

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Only a very small percentage of the job

I think that removing this word, or indeed any word from this 'song' is an admirable beginning. We need now to gather speed and remove all the other words, the melody and all existing copies of this 'song' stored on or in any media or format, then that guy with the bad teeth who sings in said 'song', and for good measure 'The Boogaloo' pub in Highgate where I think he hangs out sometimes.

Thumbs up on a job well started there Aunty Beeb, lets see if we can finish it off.

Remembering the Commodore PET 2001

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DRAGON 32!!!!

man I loved that thing. 'Juxtaposition' was the most amazing game for quite some time.

The iPhone: Everything you needed to know

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iPhone made out of cheese

or something

The Government wants to copyright my thoughts!

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AMANFROMMARS

Congratulations on your first article there sweetie.

German law smites Warhammer fan flick

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If only...

They'd spent some of that money on some back issues of White Dwarf and made a film of the excellent fan fiction cartoon strip "Travellers' (I think it was called that anyhow) .

Macs seized by porn Trojan

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I thought 'boot cap' was meant to be ironic...

As in like 'run something good on top of Mac OS'.

But wasn't the point made the other day by someone, that if you run a virtualised known good/uninfected copy of an OS (say XP using Parallels or something), you can lose all the malware once you close the virtual app thingy.

Is storage becoming IT's Hummer?

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I'm no expert...

So, you virtualise your servers onto less hardware boxes, hasn't this just changed the ratio of 'hardware boxes performing server functions' to 'hardware boxes performing storage functions'. Do the storage boxes use significantly more power than they did before we all virualised our servers?

I'm not sure what my point is.

California teen offers GPS challenge to speeding rap

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So anyway...

One day, Werner Heisenberg gets pulled over by a traffic cop. The officer walks up to the driver's side and says, “do you have any idea how fast you were going?”

“No,” replied the scientist, “but I can tell you exactly where I am!”

Ballmer: Google is winning online

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I'm no expert

But if Microsoft wants 'a quarter of revenues to come from advertising within a few years', they could just stop selling Windows accordingly - this would allow them to achieve their objective and open up the market to other OSs.

Blueberry heir loses libel suit against drunken lothario

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The IT angle is

To do with laws about posting things on websites and stuff.

Where is the iPhone angle though?

Facebook application hawks your personal opinions for cash

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'Collywobbles'

Ha ha! Nice one Centurion.

Boffins unveil sharpest ever stellar snaps

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Please DO NOT

stop using the word 'boffin'

Harry Potter and the Chancers of eBay

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As Iain Lee once said...

...the Harry Potter books, for children and slow adults

Proto- YouTube copyright suit lives on to darken another Google day

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The small guy and the gorilla

Should double team YouTube, WWF stylee.

Or, more sensibly, Viacom should back Mr Tur financially in order to help him win, thereby setting the precedent in their favour.

Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker

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How do they turn on the phones remotely?

'Cos all I can picture is some kind of extra long stick being used to press the on button.

Blogosphere is the net spawn of Satan: official

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'Blog' I have come to terms with

Being as it is just some emperors new clothes for what I'm sure people used to call 'online journals'.

'Blook' on the other hand, I am quite prepared to contribute towards a hitman to take out the goon that coined that one.

TV ads too loud, industry watchdog says

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TV on demand!

I like this, no more adverts - woo!

A newer tactic I have noticed is the usage of reverb, which is then also compressed, sitting behind the vocal track, it really increases the perceived loudness.

Asides from which, every advert on TV seems to be for shampoo aimed at people who dye their hair (which I do not) or for some kind of new advancement in baby dung-hamper technology facilitating far improved sleep or movement for the ghastly little noise engines.

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