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Month: August 2009
Stylus
So the stylus for my beloved Nintendo DS seems to have vanished into thin air, which is a little annoying. But even more annoying is buying a new one. Apparently if you want a new stylus, you also have to buy a case, “screen protector” (read: sticky back plastic), game cases and/or headphones (or “earbuds”, as most of the packs seem to call them. Does anyone call them that in real life?)
Eventually I managed to find one sans all the extras. Well, when I say one, I actually mean four. To quote Oscar Wilde:
To lose one DS stylus may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose 4? Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you?
Actually it’s not really four. Two are short styluses (styli?) for the DS Lite, and two are long styluses for the DSi. Of course this is even more illogical. I now have two DSi styluses which are almost useless as they don’t fit in the hole of my DS Lite.
To top it off, they come in absurdly large packaging, and it’s that damned plastic which I needed the help of my trusty swiss army knife to open.
Timelapse – Parker’s Piece, Cambridge
Yes, it’s rather rubbish, but this was my first timelapse, made impromptu while I led on the grass reading, to check if the technique worked. Made using CHDK on a Canon PowerShot A470 (a handheld) and put together using VirtualDub
Catching Twitter spam accounts
I just noticed something interesting on Twitter. One of the hot topics at the moment is “LinkedIn Reaches 45 Million Users”. But that’s getting shortened to “LinkedIn Reaches 45” in the sidebar trending topics list. Now, one of the tricks spammers seem to be using is taking text from there and adding their link. So searching for “LinkedIn Reaches 45” without “Million” should flush them out