Posts under ‘Geek’

So my loves, as you know I just love to share with you the weird and wonderful stuff I stumble across on the interwebz - and this one is just a perfect mix of geek and nostalgia.
A guy called Ben Heckendorn has created a fully functional C64 laptop - and he’s used the original motherboard. [...]

So, yesterday I found myself sat in the Starbucks opposite Victoria Station, because, as usual I’d arrived early for an ‘Agency Day’ at Google’s offices in Victoria.
I annoy myself by being consistently early for all businessy stuff, and yet terminally late for my family and friends.
As a result of my terminal earlyness, I sat in [...]

I’m a little over-excited today.
Google have done a page rank update. And my little blog is now a PR 2!
Page rank (PR) is a scale which Google use to determine the relative importance of a web page. The scale goes from 1-10.
A geek like me really ought to know better. There’s lots of debate over the [...]

Dear human readers, I’ve been getting my knickers in a bit of a twist of late.
See there are a number of scraper sites ripping off my content as fast as I can post it.
It makes me very angry. It’s just plain lazy - these guys are sitting on tons of content which they’ve just ripped off [...]

Firstly dear readers, please forgive the poetic license I’ve exercised in the naming of this post.
Malapropisms and dogberryisms are of course one and the same thing. But I wanted a set of three so it sounded a bit like ‘Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My!’… I heart the Wizard of Oz.
According to Wikipedia (I [...]