Writing a post simply to celebrate the 29th February! I have a friend who is about a week overdue to have a baby. I think it would be great if the baby comes today … but my friend does not agree!
A colleague just said it’s unfair that we have to work on the 29th February. [...]

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I sometimes enjoy checking the spam for comments that Akismet has cast aside for me. There is a kind of comment that takes such a predictable form it is almost like a Haiku. It goes:
{compliment}.
{assurance of trust}..
{greeting}
The two dots on the second line are very important. There are always two dots on the second line. [...]

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BUT I WROTE THAT!!!
What’s the point of a blog that copies random extracts of someone else’s blog and sends pingback/trackback to them?! There is no additional commentary; nothing to explain why they copied it … they claim to be a joke of the day but the extract they chose wasn’t even a joke! How bizarre.
Pingback [...]

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I found a Rubik’s Cube of my partner’s and immediately decided that i must learn to solve it! I found some great video tutorials on youtube and was doing great until the cube just fell apart in my hands! Which made me feel bad obviously because it is my partner’s, but also because i was [...]

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A discussion about a wire-bound A4 notebook, eg:

Colleague: I think i’ll run my notebook in widescreen mode from now on.
Me: Why?
Colleague: I might be able to fit more on it.
Me: But the lines go the wrong way.
Colleague: Oh yeah. I should be able to right-click on it and choose orientation.
Me: Hmmm. *looks on internet* Oh, [...]

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