Author: joelh

As a fellow Muppet fan, I know you’ll be upset to hear that the Walt Disney Company is trying to replace the Muppet performers with an interchangable bench of substitute puppeteers. You can help change Disney’s mind and keep the Muppets alive, just by signing a petition at savethemuppets.com. The site also tells you how…

Why hasn’t it happened?

Playing at Home on the 25th of November.

I used to use ordinary disposable razors. Sometimes I would have to shave the same spot twice. That was annoying but ok. Then along came the Mach3. Never again would I have to go over the same place twice. Except after a while the first blade got dull, and then the second. And by a…

Every year I seem to have exam supervisors who really annoy me. Last year I had a guy who coughed really loudly every five minutes and would go outside and would have loud conversations we could all hear (so loud they were distracting). This year’s candidate was Mr. Wheezy. This fat old guy wheezed his…

My friend Dean is building what he says is one of the fastest mini’s in the world. Its almost finished. The thread following it is here. Have a look at the pics. I hope he takes me cruising in this.

Official Website A realese before the expansion came out this is what is said to be “planned” It says what the other race could be.

I finally finished my media PC. It has a Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card which I had to test four different kernels to get it to work. It was an extremely painful process. I also had the original motherboard fry on me which put me $90 out of pocket that I would have preferred not…

We now have ADSL2+ at home. This gives us 15mbit down (potential maximum of 24 if our lines were better) and 1mbit up. Its from Internode and as far as ISP’s go I can definately recommend them. Their rates are reasonable, their tech support knows what they are doing and the service is really good.

Niven writes: Hi all – I had started a blog, but unfortunately they had a “technical difficulty” and pretty much screwed up the blog so it was unreadable. Its taken them 2 weeks and it hasn’t been fixed, so i’ve moved. You can still get there from www.nivcorp.cjb.net OR www.nivcorp.blogspot.com. Its not nearly as cool…