Posts by Matthew Glubb

Ilfracombe

Correction: Ilfracombe All Weather Lifeboat was also tasked. I know because my pager went off whilst I was doing the school run.

The Pie T Department

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-The-Pie-T-Department

Go!

Go Max, Go!

Recidivist

How do you know the gang have previous convictions?

Prior Art

Just watch Escape From New York.

Hotblack

This is probably what Hotblack Desiato's stuntship was made of.

Image Author's Consent?

Notwithstanding proposed orphaned works legislation, rather than the subject's consent, I would have thought that BA would be required to gain consent from the image rights holder before 'processing' (ie. copying into their database) the image.

Offensive

"Although it's an offence in the US"

Walking is practically an offence in the US. Any time I have walked along a road that isn't in a city centre, I have been stopped by a patrol car and they've asked me what I'm doing.

Or maybe I just have a suspicious gait...

Escape from the Isle of Man

Turn it into a lawless maximum security prison. For an added bonus, crash land your favourite world leader onto it and be thankful that Snake isn't around to save them.

That's Nothing

http://vimeo.com/1109226

Bad Application of Technology

I can't help feeling that the levitation tech obviously present in the first device would have far greater benefit in other fields of human endeavour...

Reap what ye shall sow...

All this because he probably wanted to pay less tax...

PLEASE

When you add footnotes, add them to the page for which they apply.

Fake

That moon landing photo is, as any fule kno, a fake.

One word

Sunglasses

Unfortunate Terminology

Anything with shingles should be avoided.

Makes me sad

"At any rate, it's a nice success story to round off the week with - and perhaps a further illustration of just why British engineering and manufacturing is so far from dead, and of the type of jobs we should nationally be looking to do."

What? Building hi-tech delivery craft for neoprene clad assassins?

I thought El Reg was above supporting the military-industrial-entertainment complex.

Joke Alert

Nuff said.

Elevators

Just use the elevators as a conduit for the energy. No nasty death star like dangers plus we all get to holiday in orbit...

@rogue Ij

I made 1.51. Do we have any advances?

Play

I guess the fact that I might want to do something as radical as actually play with my child is irrelevant.

@Woo Hoo!

How is that any different from when the US Government was controlling ICANN?

@Juilen

You are right. But it will never happen. Managment refuse to accept that a mere technician could have a similar or higher status to themselves. In Britain we call this the class system. I'm not sure what you'd call it in the rest of the world. Probably just plain snobbery.

Unguarded?

Just turn the f**ker upside down.

@Richard Drysdall

Haven't you heard of quantitative easing? Real banks print money too...

Planet Saving Technology

One more reason for people to leave their computers on when they aren't using them...

Really?

If operations are continuing as normal, wouldn't that indicate that the entire computer system affected is redundant?

@James O 'Brien

Why not just say 'screw everyone'?

Or would that make you seem too much like a sexual predator?

I'll take my chances

'It's quite a thing to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it means to be a slave.'

'Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death...'

If I'm not legally oblidged to have insurance, I won't get it. I refuse to help maintain an industry that shouts death, destruction and despair at people - just listen to their sales pitches. For the same reason, I won't buy or read the Daily Mail.

Credit Crunch

Insurance job

Bad Analogy

To the best of my knowledge, I have never used a seat belt that only works if every passenger on the road is also wearing one.

Lack of officially recognised qualifications?

In the case of most of the other professions mentioned, they all have long standing qualifications that are recognised by law / employers / government. In the case of IT, it's all too easy to claim to be competent in your field, by the time your employer finds out you aren't, you are already in the country.

Looks like someone's beaten you to the playmobil mock up

Linked from their site:

http://www.contourcrafting.org/

Security...

...through obscurity.

I've heard that before somewhere...