Some Brisbane Guy

Rhyme like Eminem! You can invent cool-ass sentences like “Bruce sluiced the moose with a noose to produce mousse.”
Fun, hey?

Veal - A Cruel Meal. Found this tonight looking for information about dopamine and serotonin, then came across British Meat.

Moodfoods.com is about foods that can affect chemicals in your brain and therefore affect your mood and behaviour.

mentalhelp.net has information on adult ADD/ADHD including the Jasper/Goldberg Adult ADD Questionnaire, symptoms and treatment.

Ben’s going to Hammo to work in a gym in a resort. Sounds like a fun job to me. Anyway we had to farewell him because he’s great and we will miss him lots.

I had a play with a Compaq Evo N1020v Series laptop today. It’s really nice. It has a big-ass screen on the one that I used, about as much viewable area as a 17″ CRT. My old Toshiba Portege is a pain in the arse compared to this one, cause it’s got a full-sized keyboard and a big screen. It also has a touchpad, which really isn’t easier to use than my little nub mouse thingy. I didn’t get to try out the laptop doing anything really hardcore, but it was nice and I want one, or one like it.

We had our house-warming party last night. Twas a blast. You can look at our housewarming pictures if you like. There’s more to come, I think.

Update:
There are more housewarming pictures!! Thanks to Jeremy.

I wrote an inane page about the different result types you come across when you search using Google for burnouts.
It’s kind of an experiment to see if Google ranks that page. It should; it has lots of juicy keywords. We shall see, won’t we?

Today I scalded my hand and forearm opening the radiator cap of my Daihatsu Charade buzzbox. The car goes through a bit of water lately, and I meant to top it up when the motor was cool so I didn’t burn myself. Today we were going on a bit of a trip, and I forgot to do it when the motor was cool, so I pulled into a service station to put more water in. I tried to slowly take off the cap; releasing the pressure bit by bit, bit by bit, then PHOOSH!
At least it doesn’t look like this one.
As Paul Bauling, MD, director of Burn Service at the University of Colorado Hospital says, “Never open the radiator cap of a hot car. The explosion will cause severe burns and scarring.” Thanks Dr Bauling. At least I don’t have severe burns, just a little one to scare me.

Lesson for today: don’t remove the radiator cap from a hot engine.

Telstra standardises on Linux and Unix. It’s good to see, corporations embracing Linux so whole-heartedly. They’re not going to use it for their really high-end stuff like billing, which they will use Sun Solaris for. I think going with Linux is a reasonable thing to do, really. There’s thousands of people who want it to survive; they work on it and keep it alive just because they want to. It means that no one company going broke or one group of developers or one bunch of cost-cutting beancounters can make Linux go away. It’s global and it’s everyone’s. Yaay for Linux.

Courtney Love does the math. This is from all the way back in June, 2000. Back when Napster was going strong and Gnutella still wasn’t finished, Morpheus and Kazaa weren’t even thought of. Courtney discusses how record companies and the RIAA lobby government to have the power to screw over artists while the companies make millions. It’s a passionate article, you can tell she cares about this stuff.

Microsoft’s February 2003 Insider (a monthly news and information booklet for Microsoft Certified Partners had a column by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. He writes of how Microsoft embraces the new obligations and responsibilities placed on Microsoft by the antitrust case. Let’s see how they go. They’ve even created a compliance committee as the judge required, chaired by Dr. James Cash of the Harvard Business School. James Cash, of Harvard Business School, working for Microsoft. Well, he’s an outside member of their board. But it’s still funny.

I’ve come across a few useful articles in the last hour.

How to pamper your customers by sending them gifts and letters or doing them favours. As they say: plants, children, pets, friends and lovers respond to pampering.

How to dress without looking like a nerd recommends you throw out your sneakers and put on some leather dress shoes. If you are still at school, DO NOT obey this article if you want to have any friends. If you’re at school, you most likely don’t need to know how to set a Rolex GMT Master II either. I am convinced this article is only on this guy’s site to show off that he has a Rolex.
I also liked how to steer and downshifting with double de-clutching and a throttle blip, because I like to do that when I drive and I wanted to know if I’m doing it properly. I might be.

Danceclubs and Diarrhoea. This guy is a freak, you gotta read it.

Pedestrian Killer - flash game where you have to run over as many pedestrians as you can in a couple of minutes. Has a jazzy soundtrack and realistic screams from your dying victims!