13 hour day at work. Bad servers. Not much with the brain. So as far as a NaBloPoMo post goes this is a token effort and made of fail.
Very True Mood: 
tired
tiredArchive for November, 2008
Star Trek
Posted on in Films.Seen the pics from the new Star Trek film yet? Spoilers ahoy ‘cos here are the treknical ones…
Hands up who thinks that this ship looks like it should be an intermediate stage between the movie-era Enterprise and the Ambassador class? I can hear the fanboys screaming…
So this is the USS Kelvin, destroyed some time before the main timeframe of the movie. NCC-0514. Hmm, I want to see more. And, on the really pedantic level, how does this fit into the same registry scheme that includes the NCC-638 USS Grissom form ST III?
And has it really been four years since I updated my Star Trek ships web site? Ouch.
Baked beans are off
Posted on in Spam, Work.The BBC ran a story today about how spammers make money. They estimated that with a click through rate of just 0.00001% it could be possible to make up to $2 million a year.
At work we deal on click through rates of double digit percentages and yet somehow don’t make $200 billion a year. The downside of being all ethical and using an opt-in list. 
Meanwhile I got this spam in my akismet cesspool:
Hi there!
My first post at this great blog!
I wanna show u my dayly updated blog: [adjective adjective verb noun]
Have a nice day!
BB!P.S. if you don’t want to see this message please write me to [email] with subject “NO ADS” and URL of your forum
Thank you for cooperation!
Allowing for the fact that 1 in 100,000 people are stupid enough to buy drugs from a spammer, how many webmasters are stupid enoiugh to send a forum URL to a spammer?
Spooked
Posted on in TV, Work.Spooks has gone all technobabble on us. Nanoparticles activated by microwaves?
But more importantly, tonight’s BBC 3 episode (so on BBC 1 next Monday) was substantially filmed in our offices! And tomorrow we’ll all be looking at the board room and trying to figure out how they filmed some shots (Ben, you know, the one with no personality, hiding behind a pillar) without removing a window and suspending the camera in mid air outside.
Or is it because we smell?
Posted on in Computer Games, Games, Miniatures, WWW.Last week I was introduced to Playfire – a social networking site for computer gamers. It got me wondering why there’s no equivalent for wargamers.
There’s BoardGameGeek but (a) the interface sucks and (b) its remit is so much wider than wargames. TMP and Frothers are fine places to come together and talk about games but that’s all. Where’s the site where I can catalogue the games I play and the miniatures I own and connect with other players?
A lot of the functionality that the knitters have on Ravelry would be great – a flexible but standardised way of listing “projects” – which minis, which paints, which TOE, WIP photos, etc.
Considering how geeky and techie a lot of wargamers are, why has no one created the site? Is it simply because the idea of social networking isn’t really our thing?
Someone will now pop up in the comments and tell me about a site that I should have known about all along.
9 out of 10 cats say WTF? Take 2.
Posted on in The World, WWW.
Mad cat based advertising on Facebook, again. This one is less strange and more just plain wrong. I presume that this is not the modelled by the same cat as the other day. Though if it is I can only presume that his “accident” was the other cats beating him up.
Comment is free, bandwidth is not
Posted on in WWW.I’m ill. 
So only a short post today. Opera have released more data from their MAMA survey, including this gem:
MAMA used a MySQL SMALLINT data type (max. value: 65,535) to store the quantity of comments on a page. Surprisingly, in the most extreme cases this was not big enough. Only 1 URL was found to exceed this in MAMA’s URL set [...] http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/all.html. MAMA stored its maximum value of 65,535, but a live analysis showed 146,376 comments in a 9.2MB HTML file!
Very True Mood: 
sick
sickDinosaurs Rule
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Games, RPGs.I promised you some dinosaurs, so here we go. For quite a long time my Dinosaurs in Miniature page has contained the line Rules (coming soon)
so I figure why not do something about that? As this blogging every day thing is very taxing, I’m presenting a skeleton list here and asking you good people to help me flesh it out. What am I missing? What have I got wrong? I’m only after more or less professionally published rules here.
( Lists of Dinosaurs Rules and more... )
Very True Mood: sleepy
sleepy9 out of 10 cats say WTF?
Posted on in The World, WWW.
This is probably the strangest advert I’ve seen on Facebook. In fact it may be the strangest advert I’ve seen anywhere. Anyone want to bid on a cat scab?
Very True Mood: 
confused
confusedPosted on in Blogs, The World.
I follow quite a few blogs, some are friends, some are famous, some are funny, some are wise, some are thoughtful, some are hopeful.
I could post my thoughts. But really, they’d just be recycling all these other guys.
Now, that’s enough about that, how about some dinosaurs for tomorrow’s post?
Very True Mood: 
pleased
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