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Take a look at the amount of Spam I have in my inbox at the moment. That’s right, I have ’leet spam messages.

Just noticed Google Photos in a browser window. This is a new service, according to my reckoning, but is really just Picasa, which Google bought some time ago. New info is that you can use iPhoto to upload images, as evidenced at Mac Tools. I’m glad Google decided to use iPhoto instead of making a Mac version of Picasa. Now all I need is a version of iPhoto that doesn’t totally suck with a large library of photos. Oh, and 250Mb ain’t real big for an online photo album. I’m up to around 6Gb at home, and that’s without really trying.

Thanks to Andy at TouchSA, I’ve come across a couple of rather cool, funny things on the interblags. They are all related, but I’ll go through all of them. They all relate to that funniest of television chefs: the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show.

• The first is the Firefox extension that translates the web content into Bork Bork Bork.
• Secondly, Google has Bork, bork, bork as one of it’s languages, so you can have it in that language whenever you search. Note that this is for the Google pages only, not the search results themselves.
• Finally, I found a tool that converts any entered text into Bork Bork Bork. (Swedish Chef!)

• Thunks tu Undy et TuoochSA, I’fe-a cume-a ecruss a cuoople-a ooff rezeer cuul, foonny theengs oon zee interblegs. Zeey ere-a ell releted, boot I’ll gu thruoogh ell ooff zeem. Zeey ell relete-a tu thet foonneeest ooff telefeesiun cheffs: zee Svedeesh Cheff frum zee Mooppet Shoo. Zee furst is zee Fureffux ixtenseeun thet trunsletes zee veb cuntent intu Bork Bork Bork. Secundly, Guugle-a hes Bork, bork, bork es oone-a ooff it’s lungooeges, su yuoo cun hefe-a it in thet lungooege-a vhenefer yuoo seerch. Nute-a thet thees is fur zee Guugle-a peges oonly, nut zee seerch resoolts zeemselfes. Feenelly, I fuoond a tuul thet cunferts uny intered text intu Bork Bork Bork. (Svedeesh Cheff!)

… blogs with multiple domain names. This blog has a couple of different domain names by which it can be accessed. I would prefer it all to be schinckel.net, but it’s not possible to have Blogsome work properly if it thinks that is the domain name. I’ve got it pretty close (most of the links, for instance, point to a schinckel.net location), but since it is a multiple user system, and the way it works out which database the data should be gathered from, the domain name must end with blogsome.com. So, in one sense future-proofing myself (if Blogsome shut down, I would simply repost all of the data onto a new system, and just point schinckel.net there), and another because it’s a shorter domain, I want links to go to there instead. But, there is one bad side-effect. I use technorati for seeing incoming links, but with the setting change I talked about above, it only now picks up links coming to schinckel.net, not schinckel.net, which isn’t really good enough. Since I get more links coming to the latter than the former. So my dashboard doesn’t get to see most of the links I’m really interested in…

I’ve got a lovely inline/AJAX search tool, but it doesn’t quite work properly with Internet Explorer. I use onsubmit="Search(); return false" so that it works well with JavaScript, and still continues to load the search page if JavaScript is disabled, but this fails in IE. That is, it still loads the search page, even though it attempts to load the results inline first. I wonder if I need to make the Search() function return false too?

Dr Karl from ABC radio is a funny, clever man. One of his recent podcasts/radio segments was called “Pluck for Luck,” and discussed four-leaf clovers. The funny thing he said almost slipped past my attention the first time around:

Stressors can come in a variety of forms. Drought, rain, aphids, Leprechauns, …

I had to listen to it again, just to see if I’d heard it right!

It’s just mind-blowing… This one’s funny, in it’s own way:

Dear Jane, My name isn’t Frank. It’s Mary.

And for Justin Timberlake fans: I’ve got a hairy back… (sung to the tune of Sexy Back).

Due to my stupidity in renting my flat to an (alleged) wife-basher, it is now vacant again. If anyone wants to live on Marion Road, just of Henley Beach Road, leave a comment, with your email address in the right box, and I’ll get back to you. Price is $265 p.w., available now. Stainless steel kitchen, Airconditioner, Garage, Security System. Quiet group of 5, established water-wise garden. Close to public transport and late-night supermarket. No pets, or wankers, please. Please, children, no superfluous comments. I will issue detentions.

Parents warned kids may copy movie stunts | | The Australian

I urge parents to keep an eye on their children so they don’t copy these sorts of stunts and possibly end up in a hospital emergency department.

Fancy that, hey. Kids copying stunts from Movies. Next from inane Minister: Eating food stops you being hungry. Idiot.

I missed the first season of the new Battlestar Galactica. Something to do with it being on late at night, during _WoW_time, and not always being on at the same time every week. I was a big fan as a kid of the original series (I even have BSG wallpaper in my room at my parents’ house!), so I was looking forward to the new series. And I wasn’t disappointed. From the first moment, BSG was fantastic. I was forced, by the ineptitude of the Channel 9 programmers, to download the first series via BitTorrent - or rather, have a friend who had already done so burn me a copy. Season 2, which is currently being shown, and which, since it wasn’t advertised, I missed the first couple of episodes, fell into the same boat. Download the lot of them, at least that way I get to see it in the right order. And now, with Nine still showing season 2, while #3 is on the US, I’ve had to revert to BT again. Man is this season good. I disliked the ending of the last season - it seemed to change character way too much in the way it was set up for the occupation. I watched the Webisodes regardless, and didn’t mind them. And then Season 3. I’m still a couple of episodes behind the US, but I’m hooked again. The way this series, unlike virtually every other program on television ever, isn’t afraid to do a good bit of character development, and then, suddenly, kill off the characters. Just like that. (Although, just quietly, I’m still not convinced the one they killed in Episode 4 isn’t a Cylon.) They could have padded out the Resistance a bit more - I’d like to think I’m not spoiling too much by saying they got off the planet a little to easily, but hey, it was ballsy. And sacrificing a BattleStar - I’m not sure that was such a good idea, either. Surely they could have managed to come up with a way to jump away at the last minute. Or did they…? And the mind games the Cylons manage to play with each of the characters. I love it.