Nose day redux

Why yes it does appear to have swollen some more overnight.

Cute but no

I'm speechless :)

Our good friend the fail whale returns

The Twitter Fail Whale returns. Ill say one thing this has to be the cutest error screen around.

Facebook woes

Oh Facebook why do you fail so. Today I tried logging in to no avail. For some reason FaceBook seemed convinced that my password was no longer valid. Never to be one run asunder by such siliness I decided to play the game and reset my password.

This is of course where things started getting interesting. Firstly I can't reset my password due to some cute little "Internal error" and secondly if I try loging with any password I am advised my account is unavailable.

Oh well hopefully Facebook get their act togethor soon.

Cartman sings poker face

Embrace the awesome! The original version by Lady Gaga is available over here. I think the South park version is WAY better!

Benjamin Gay tagged as nudity and pornography by OpenDNS

This is so incredibly annoying. Once again OpenDNS.org has decided to tag my domain BenjaminGay.com as containing Nudity and pornography, something which I can assure you it does not!

Interestingly I thought that OpenDNS might be merely doing a keyword look-up on my surname and proactively tagging it. My other domain name (bengay.ws) which is merely a redirect to benjamingay.com/blog did not exist in the system though so I am interested in finding out what the route cause is here.

Now when I initially started using OpenDNS at home I naturaly looked up my domain name and found it to be tagged. After much mail back and forth and going through the rather slow and painful dispute process at openDNS I was assured that the matter was taken care off. Unfortunately there seems to be a regression here.

In short if you use OpenDNS or even have your own domain I would strongly recommend going to the openDNS site and seeing if your domain name has been incorrectly classified. Of course if it has I would strongly recommend that you voice your dissatisfaction as well.

Anxiety

Brilliant!

Thanks to cetric for this one

Bunny steeplechase

Bunny steeplechase, what an awesome way to celebrate Easter! Best Week ever put these insanely awesome pics up on there site showing us what Easter is all about!

Bicycle trailer in Balard

Seeing is believing. I don't see this being particularly practical in hilly or longer rides but a cute idea none the less


Salmon trailer at farmers market

A photographic history of hyper-inflation

A friend of mine sent me an email with the following. Needless to say as disturbing as our current economy is over here in the US it has nothing on the Zimbabwe crisis.


There are more billionaires in Zimbabwe then there are beggers in Malaysia or Cambodia


One ZWD 200,000 note equals less than USD 0.10


December 22nd 2008, a new note of ZWD 500,000 is introduced to the market!


Next this is followed by ZWS 750,000.


January 2008 brings in the ZWD 10,000,000 note.


Have you ever held sixty million of any currency in your hands?


This USD 10 note is worth more than times the value of this ZWD 10,000,000 note!


Puts it into perspective doesn't it?


ZWD 50,000,000 note is introduced.


Which is shortly followed by a ZWD 250,000,000 note.


How about a THREE BILLION Dollar T-Shirt?


May 2008, a ZWD 500,000,000 note is introduced.


ZWD 250,000,000 and ZWD 500,000,000 notes are introduced. Yes you read that right 25 and 50 billion dollar notes!


And finally ZWD 100,000,000,000!


Which as impressive as it sounds, only gets you three eggs!


August 2008 the government devalued the Zimbabwe dollar by removing ten zeroes from each note.


But this did nothing for inflation and in September you could get four tomatoes for this amount.


Or a loaf of bread for this much.


September heralded the return of the new ZWD 20,000 note


and a few weeks later the ZWD 50,000 note.


Which doesn't make it surprising that toilet paper is cheaper and you see signs like this.

WTF I'm clasified as gay porn.

So I started to use OpenDNS at home as a replacement for Comcast's DNS. The good news is that it seems to be more reliable and is fairly quick. The reason for using it however is not for the much touted reliability, it is for the management. You see you can actually look at all the traffic that is coming from your home network as well as to put filters in place.

Now imagine my surprise when I looked up my domain name to see that it was classified as gay pornography. Considering that my website has never had any naked pictures, let alone porn so a little more investigation was in order.


Screen shot showing my classification.

My first stop was at the Way Back Machine where I discovered the previous occupant was a nice guy called Ben (no surprise there) who lives in the UK and works in the advertising industry. After that I did a bit of digging around google and some other search engines but came up dry. The closest was a pay site that would give you the NS registration records for a fee but I didn't think that it was worth it.

So hopefully the nice people at OpenDNS will reclassify me :)

The Bridge Lover

BRDGE R. A cool license plate I do admit. I thieving HOV violator for sure!


Bridge Lover?

What ever happened to do no evil?

Gizmodo has the following story where the Google Maps car drove over a baby deer.

Here's a sad one: the Google Maps car took out a baby deer, and it recorded the entire process for all Google Maps users to see. For shame, Google Maps car!

As you follow the street view scene down Five Points Road in Rush, NY, you can see the deer run out in front of the car, get hit and then see it on the side of the road before the car pulls over. And that's the end of the Street View data for Five Points Road.

Google Maps is recording real life, guys. And yes, the Five Points joke kind of writes itself, doesn't it? [Google Maps via The Daily What]

As disturbing as this is it illustrates how there is no screening of data that is uploaded to the service. There are many examples of people staging activities so that they will appear on the Google street.

You gotta love a good nurse

Courtesy of our favorite nurse Shelly.

Now if Chris and Shelley would head on back.

The worlds longest death

Death at 20 paces with arrows. Two and three quarter minutes and counting...

Seriously this has to be the most patient victim in the world.


The worlds longest death

Ursulmas medieval sword fighting

Today we went to a medieval fair. It was an interesting experience to say the least...


Behold the power of a piece of metal wrapped in duct tape!

Microsoft XBOX is cooler than Nintendo Wii

Apparently Microsoft Xbox 360 is actually cooler than the Nintendo Wii after all.


Friday, January 9th 2009 09h39. Carnation, 32100 block of E Commercial Street. Xbox Gone.

A resident called police after discovering that an Xbox 360 game console, a game, and a controller were taken from the home during the night. Two people were sleeping in the room the console was stolen from; there was also a Wii game console in the room, which was not taken. Another strange development was the appearance of a BMX bicycle in the front yard of the home.

How much would you pay?

What do you think?


$225.00


$125

Carnation flood house

I was cleaning up my machine going through some of the pictures I took during the most recent flood and found these pictures of this house. The history behind the house is that it was built several years ago to everyone's surprise and amazement (as it must have the worlds worst location) and has sat empty and for sale since it was completed.

You just need to see any video of the Snoqualmie valley in flood and you will see this lone house surrounded by miles of water. Each year it floods to a different degree and whilst it is raised the garage is not. Unfortunately the land around the house also gets destroyed each year and for all purposes is unusable.

The thing that Griselda and I are curios about is how on earth did they get a permit to build this house. The list of problems that one needs to deal with are huge. For starters the septic system must be flooded every year which Im sure is going to result in some costly drain field work.


The house in question


Well, this is probably not going to help


"...oh and it floods every year..."

Tired of winter?

This guy sure is! Thanks to Shelley for sending this gem over.


Anti-winter snow sculpture

This is why they use woman on calendars

I am sorry if I made your eye balls bleed but this is absolutely hysterical! If this did make your eyes bleed then you can thank Shelley Black for sending this over but you will need to get in line as I have already spewed coffee all over the keyboard as a result of this.


April: Hot Tuna


May: Harriets of Fire


June: Tidal Wave of Desire


July: Work with me


October: Surging the Net


November: The Gut and The Glory

Alaska Tourism brought to you by Portland

This looks like it needs to be made into a Tourism Demotivational. Alaskan tourism brought to you by the nice people in Portland.


Nice postal address