Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Here are a couple of interesting, but probably useless, statistics relating to this blog. In its lifetime it has received a grand total of 220,964 spam comments. In that time the Akismet plugin has captured all but 756 of them and recorded just two false positives. That’s an accuracy rate of 99.6%. Color me impressed.
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
It’s Thursday, it’s hot, I’m tired, yet I’ve still managed to find a handful of things to amuse me on a Thursday evening. It’s funny where surfing the internet can lead you. Consider this a geeked out version of six degrees of separation.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Here’s another news story with a headline that can’t help but catch the eye. “Man nearly killed as eel swims in bottom”. Yup, right about now you are probably thinking the same thing I did… WTF? Surely there’s a word missing or a typo in that headline right? Well here’s the story…
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The Diet Coke and Mentos explosion is not a new phenomenon. The idea is pretty simple, dump some Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke and you have yourself an instant soda geyser. I’ve toyed with the Diet Coke/Mentos union myself, with mixed, and somewhat messy, results. Apparently though, I had not fully considered the [...]
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
When Meat Loaf sang that he’d do anything for love but he wouldn’t do “that”, what exactly was he referring to? His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson…
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Did you know…? …that it is possible to respond to any statement or question with “that’s what she said”… I said it’s possible, I didn’t say it was socially acceptable.
Monday, August 31st, 2009
I’ve been slack at maintaining the old pickle over the last few weeks. There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to do with it, but not enough hours in the day. Yeah I’m busy, but it could be worse. I could be the Nasosus Machedonus, aka. the Proboscis Monkey, aka. the monkey with a penis [...]
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
For many years now it has been assumed that Karl Stefanovic, co-host of Channel Nines early morning Today program, is a robot. In fact, many people believe that Stefanovic is actually C3P0, a human-cyborg relations droid constructed in Queensland, and the first Australian droid of its kind. This was confirmed on Wikipedia (so it must [...]
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Time flies when you are doing stuff. It’s hard to believe that it is Easter already. Seems like only yesterday that I was stuffing my face at Christmas. Now I’m stuffing my face with hot cross buns. Which brings me to the Easter Bunny. WTF? A rabbit, laying eggs, made of chocolate. Is it the [...]
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
In LOST Benjamin Linus turned the wheel and everything changed. On Swollen Pickles, I did something and something bad happened. I recently upgraded the WordPress installation which seemed to screw up something with the comment form, then I realised that the layout wasn’t rendering how I wanted it to in IE, even though it looked [...]
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Here’s another free offer I found while browsing the Commission Junction site. CinemaNow.com are giving you the opportunity to watch a video for free, in what I’m guessing is a way to get people to trial their product. Free stuff is good stuff, and the CinemaNow site has all the latest releases so it’s worth [...]
