Snack on this

The last few weeks I've really started to enjoy my Cadburys Whole Nut chocolate bar. I often rotate it with StarBar, Double Decker or a packet of crisp. But really the Whole Nut is my current favourite bar.

The only problem I have with the Whole Nut is the amount of nut that is given. I've often sat at my desk having finished whichever filling sandwich I had that day and felt a little bit more the peeved and the nut situation with Cadburys Whole Nut and wanted to blog something about it.
Sometimes I might get a segement or two that are nutless. Thats not a Whole Nut in my eye's. That's Dairy Milk. I've see more nuts on the bus ride home after work. (Or a bus ride in the next town, but that's a private joke for the missus and involves some escaped mental patient.)
There have been times when in the shop Whole Nut purchasing, that I've felt the back of the bar to try and feel how many nuts are under the packaging. (Best 'fondling nuts in public' joke get kudos - Ed)

Today I got a shock. My Whole Nut (extra size as it is a Friday/payday) had lots of nuts in it. So much so I think I got over 2.1 nuts per segement. That has to be a World Record. It's a better feeling then opening up a monkey nut and finding three peanuts.



I'm very very happy.

Crazy World

Sometimes life on Earth amazes me. It amazes me at just how mental it can be sometimes.

Take for example the recent fantastic game Mario Galaxy on the Wii. Some of it's level design is so insane you have to stop for a few moments to ask your self "am I really supposed to do that? Lets try....Wow, I was"
Then I think the people who designed this level, what the hell were they thinking? They must go to work while taking acid, having not slept for three days and live somewhere really obscuse lke i a lighthouse or Runcorn.

Or I learnt while reading the astounding Bill Bryson book A Brief History of Nearly Everything (excellent book about everything, go buy it) There is so much mental scientific crap in there. The one that stood out to me was some really old chaps wanted to find out the mass of the Earth. First of all who the hell wants to know the mass of the Earth? Whats that knowledge going to accomplish? But whats more mental is someone actually figured out a way to weigh the Earth's mass. Someone went away, and made up a plan on how they could go about doing what people wouldn't normally do.
Obviously the scales in the bathroom wouldn't work so someone figured out by hanging a weight on a piece string over the edge of a cliff you could find out the weight of the Earth.
(I don't know if this method works, but people seem to believe it)

And take today. The BBC are reporting on a domestic dog that can do fancy balancing tricks. Now I don't know what is more crazy, the fact that the BBC are reporting on this or that someguy one day tried to balance four cups on his dogs paws or can my dog balance a cup of tea on his head while balancing a gold ball on a spoon which is in his mouth (see pics). What madness does a man have to go through to think up this stuff?

Crazy.

Chip and Pin and "How is my service"?

I don't know how widespread this new phenomenone is, but I have recently noticed down at the local Co-Op that the chip and pin machine is asking me questions. It want's to know "how was my service?" "was I served fast?"

I would like to know, it this just something that is happening in my local Co-Op? Have you noticed it Co-Ops near you? Or is it even limited to Co-Op stores, is it found in other stores with chip and pin?

So next time you are at the shop and when the customer in front of you leaves finishes being served, have a look at the chip and pin machine and see if it asks you anything?

And for those who dont believe me I'll try and get a photo of the chip and pin machine next time I am being served.

Everyone shhhhhh

I'm at work and typing this very gently. The guy next to me is asleep. Its a very busy office we have here.

But it is quiet funny as he keeps waking up for a few seconds then gently nodding back off.

hehe

OpenID's

I was recently asked about openID's after one user had thought that it was not secure and quite frankly seemed pointless.
I also thought the same when I first seen openID support on my blogger comments. I figured if I could just write in any url then I could be anyone. I wanted to how is that secure?

Well ladies and gentleman, openID is a little bit of a magician and works in mysterous ways.

(Here is my reply to the above blog entry)
The way open ID works is, say you comment on a blogger blog with your wordpress URL, the first instant you submit your comment, openID checks your computers cookies to see if you are already logged on to wordpress with that URL username. If you are logged on under the correct URL/username then your comment gets posted. If you are not logged on to wordpress then your comment is rejected.

The simpliest way to try this out is to log out of wordpress, find a blogger blog to comment on - say this one. Submit your comment and your wordpress URL. What will happen is openID will check your cookies, and if you remembered to log out of your wordpress account, you will be asked to log in to wordpress first.

So unless you know the password to the url you submit you cannot post under that url.
Which is great now, as all those people with wordpress blogs but blogger accounts to post comments on blogger friends, no longer need to worry about logging in to blogger. Just carry on using your wordpress openID.

You could also try it out by submitting a comment under a url that doesnt belong to you, say a friends. OpenID will see you are not logged on under that username and reject your comment.
Cool eh! And safe.

The reason you may not have noticed anything at present will be because you have “keep me signed on all times” ticked on your blog.

So unless someone can log on to your account with your own password they cannot post under your url. Very secure and no way of fake posters.
So now anyone who comments with openID I will know is genuine.

The power of cookies. It all seems fancy and magical.

Now I want a cookie.

Visit http://openid.net/ for more info, which sites already support openID (you might already have an openID) or how to get one.

More photos from my Birthday weekend

Ok, my birthday is now 9 days old, the next weekend is closer then the previous weekend but if I didn't post these now I never will.

So here are some extra photos from my birthday weekend, my family (and new nephew Dylan), travelling - we spent about 10 hours travelling over the weekend, thats alot of time sitting - and other random photos.

The running theme for this birthday was "Eyes Closed."




Everyone was getting in on the act. I think it all came from this one guy.


All in all I had a very fun and tiring birthday. just another 340 odd left till the next one.

Enjoy the slideshow.

Another video and some praise

After spending a whole evening, about 5 hours, trying to figure out how cut and shrink a movie I made at the Justice from the weekend, by converting, researching editing suites, downloading freeware and getting very annoyed, Olly has come to my rescue.

So a massive thanks to Olly. For those that haven't checked out Electric Pig, mainly those newcomers to my blog, I highly recommend Electric Pig.
One of my favourite and longest blogs I've been reading. Go check out his adventures in Japan.

But here is my last Justice video. The first taken from the night, the opening few minutes, enjoy...