On the car barrier going into a car park. Please leave your valuables clearly visible - signed Rupert the car thief. Far more effective than the normal warnings. Incidentally what's happened to Poole - small town - next to Bournemouth - on the south coast of England. It was horrible - the quay was so quiet - the horrible cafes were mostly shut Continue Reading
April 2, 2003
got a new motor
I've finally got a new Ka - just that's right - its a Ford car - called Ka. This causes people problems - so - if I say - I've got a new Ka - people ask me - what type? So I now say I have a new Ford car - K A. So other people now think I have a Ford Kay Ay. Are well. The car - Ka - goes well. I've called it the 'Tardis' after Doctor Who - Continue Reading
April 2, 2003
service is improving
I had got increasingly paranoid - that's I'm more paranoid - than usual - and my BT broadband was getting worse than dialing up the net from my laptop. Yesterday was bad - nothing seemed to work. This morning all my sites were down - couldn't even access my hosting service - not even with cuteftp - which was a problem - as my account code - which Continue Reading
April 2, 2003
oh you april fool
Oh am I embarrassed? By the Richard and Judy show on Channel 4 (UK) of all people. They did a brilliant spoof. They had this guy who had developed a gadget called the Babylon. It had two loudspeakers each with a button with the British and German flags. This gadget was able to receive speech in say English and if you then pressed the button - Continue Reading
April 1, 2003
attention FISH VIRUS alert
Syndicat d' Nationale Kalorique - Avril 1, 2003 eip infected motherboard URGENT FISH VIRUS ALERT Syndicat d' Nationale Kalorique (S d'NK) the leading French Montpelier based research company developing the radical 'electronic induced perfumery' technology - eip - has announced that one of its ex-employees - technicians Pierre d'Estrangier - Continue Reading
April 1, 2003
Which is the Super Black?
A first for the Odtaa Files. Below are two black squares - 'Sample A' and 'Sample B'. One is a square filled with the normal internet colour black - the other uses a very clever programming algorithm to produce the ultimate 'Super Black' - which is the theoretical blackness of a black hole - and has been calculated recently by scientists at the Continue Reading