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Desire post test

Toker — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:14:30 +0000

Got the new desire. Also got a smoke machineand lasers…

It must be true; I saw it on telly!

Toker — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:26:54 +0000

For years now, I’ve taken to the phrase “But it must be true; I saw it on telly!”. Depending on circumstance… well, you can imagine.

You can probably also imagine how delighted I was to come across the Dan&Dan song “The Daily Mail“.

All of his video’s are clever as well as funny -fantastic ideas and brilliant execution -I’d very much recommend checking out his other work.

In a similar theme to DanAndDan (playing with yourself, that is) I also found the following extremely amusing. Well executed and lovely self depreciation

(if you’re not one of those people easily amused, I implore you to watch at least 1:20seconds before you make up your mind).

Free and Open?

Toker — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:17:22 +0000

I just came across this on the governments website, and you just have to be impressed.

Its entitled “National Insurance Numbers (NINOs): Format and Security: What to do if you suspect or discover fraud”, and in this current climate of identity theft, it kinda makes sense and its probably worth knowing what to do if you do suspect fraud.

Sadly, the only text left viewable on the page, states “This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000″.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/nimmanual/NIM39140.htm

instantlivecodes.com/

Toker — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:52:12 +0000

Arguments over ‘whether you should have to pay anything at all to Micro$oft to use its on-line service` aside, I found myself needing to buy and xBoX360 Live Gold membership (for the bf).
I decided there is no point getting 3 months for half the price of 12, and I didn’t fancy walking down to the BlockBuster’s Video to pay over the odds.
I didn’t want to wait for delivery either, its a pain in the ass and I don’t trust the post. I don’t want to have to pay more for the sake of a piece of cardboard.
So after a little googling I payed £29.99 for a 12+1 Gold subscription to be “instantly emailed to me” via InstantLiveCodes.com.

After first paying the money (via paypal or google-checkout) I got an email stating that

Instant Live Codes and PayPal are working together to make it safer than
ever to buy on InstantLiveCodes.com. One of the boldest steps is to identify
transactions that pose the greatest risk of fraud.

Your payment has been selected for review.

This is a security measure meant to protect you from problem transactions.

Please contact sales@instantlivecodes.com to
acknowledge this email, instantlivecodes may ask for
additional information about this transaction.

And I kinda freaked out. Decided I must have been scammed and that I’d just lost £30.

I sent them an email back saying that I was very real and after trawling a couple of forums posted my disgust at beeing ripped off.

3 hours later I got my code (about 9pm at night) and it worked like a charm.

Thank You InstantLiveCodes very, very much. I recommend thee

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UPDATE:

Obviously this is the most controversial thing i’ve ever written about, and I’m going to close the comments.

To all of you who have used them with success, good on you. T o all of you who are having problems, I’m sorry, but I have nothing to do with them.

Comments have been closed.

DHTML Lemmings

Toker — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:10:32 +0000

Lemmings written completely in DHTML, so thats static HTML and JavaScript. No flash here. -very excellent

In fact, I first came across this a good few years ago… I wonder ifit can be calssed as pre-2.0 Web2.0

Personally I recommend polaying it with firebug running, so you can watch the source change

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

Hello WordPress World

Toker — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:52:28 +0000

I feel a little queezy. Possibly more than a little -throat infection and blocked nose, felt like I was coming down with flu when I finally crashed last night…

It might have more to do with the fact I’ve started blogging again. -Ironically, at this point the spell-check points out that blogging is spelt incorrectly, and did I in fact mean “logging, bogging, slogging, clogging or flogging”. Apparently I’ve left it in thesaurus mode.

And I’m using WordPress. I’ve run out of excuses, it Just Works^TM (ok, mostly just works, superscript is a pita) so I’m no longer pissing about with server configurations or trying to write my own CMS in perl or any of that shit, so I get to start blogging.

If you don’t like what you see here, then you’re probably in the wrong place.