Just noticed that the page zoom feature in Internet Explorer 7 zooms all background images, except for those set on the body element. Peculiar.

This popped up on my Word Press dashboard today: Web 2.0 or Star Wars. I got 35 out of 43. Not sure which side of my geekery helped the most.

Very True Mood: cheerful

I got a letter summonsing (love that ’s’) for jury duty. March 19th. With the schedule for the launch of the new site and the several levels above critical part that I’m to play in said schedule, that’s a really, really good time. Or maybe not.

Yeah, I’m going to have to defer it until later in the year but until then, I’m looking forward to the expression on people’s faces at work tomorrow when I tell them.

Very True Mood: mischievous

Evidence One

Evidence Two

Evidence Three

But don’t be too quick to blame Microsoft, etc. ‘cos this is nothing new. A couple of hundred years ago aristocrats would send illustrations of their coats of arms over to China to have them painted on china in order to produce the sort of dinner service that any self respecting stately home should possess. One nobleman decided to save a penny or two and instead of sending a colour illustration sent a black and white illustration with the colours indicated via labels, in English. You can guess the rest.

Very True Mood: amused

The other night the doorbell rang, we weren’t expecting anyone and it does tend to ring for no reason so we ignored it. Then it rang again, and then a third time. So I went down to see whether there was actually anybody there. A nervous looking middle aged bloke was hovering on the other side of the gate. When I got close enough to hear what he was saying I discovered that he was apologetically asking whether there were “any girls upstairs, any women?” “Um, er yes,” I replied puzzled, and then realisation dawned, and I hurriedly continued “Oh! No, not that sort of women.” Later, pink_weasel said “you should have taken some money off him anyway.”

Very True Mood: amused

I’ve finally got the 2007 Deadpool lists up on the web.

Yesterday I had a fortune cookie that told me I was a wanker.

Very True Mood: shocked

Ragnarok is the journal of the Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargamers. The latest issue, the first with John Wilson as editor, of Rag has been published and is in the post to members.

• Saint Snatch - Relic steaing in Dresda
• In the Dog House - Strontium Dog in Inquisitor
• Crimson Twenty One - Crimson Skies in Air War C:21
• Ottomania II - More Turks in Aeronef
• The Rules of War - Reviews of Space Vixens from Mars and Battlestations

Comments can be left on the SFSFW forum.

From HM Revenue & Customs

Thank you for your recent claim to repayment.
A Bank transfer for £1165-01
is being made to your account.

Very True Mood: cheerful

Via snapesbabe

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Your Result: Good natured jumper wearer

 

When two fans get chatting in the line for autographs at a convention, you’re the one that flinches when the other swears. You own a cat called Sutekh.

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Just so long as the jumper in question isn’t covered by bloody question marks, okay?

Very True Mood: confused