Monthly Archives: July 2008

Where’s My Scrabulous Gone?

By swerveball | Published: July 30, 2008
Not ten minutes ago I was playing Scrabulous on Facebook, something I do every now and again to flex my mental muscles, get my head round some general wordiness, and, of course, whup my friends. I’m sure most people are familiar with the scrabble game that’s taken the FB by storm since the web game was [...]
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99 Problems and a Stitch Is One

By swerveball | Published: July 24, 2008
Triffsco Inferno sent me this link earlier. It’s pretty funny. Ok, it’s not so funny that I have a stitch in my side, but a stitch in time saves nine. Or something.. I saw some of Jay-Z at Glastonbury a few weeks back. Watched about 15 minutes. He was shit, so I moved on to go [...]
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Propositioned by a Bot

By swerveball | Published: July 23, 2008
Well, it appears that bots are getting reasonably sophisticated in the throwing not too non-sensical lines back over IM. Either that or this bloke is a moron. Either way, I felt I had to just keep the conversation alive just a little while longer; I was being idle, but of course their time (or processing [...]
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Obey teh Kitty

By swerveball | Published: July 23, 2008
Having interesting things around is always a good thing. It keeps us stimulated and provides both inspiration and the potential to lift a mood. One of my good friends is an artist, and he’s starting to make a career out of it which is good for him. All of his family are a bit arty in [...]
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Wordpress 2.6 Tyner

By swerveball | Published: July 16, 2008
When did this happen? Well, hey say it’s a month early and it’s also called Tyner. Seeing as it was so painless to install, I’m quite impressed. But then, I’m not running any fancy stuff, so I guess you should expect that. Now I’ll have to go look under the hood.
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My Cats’ Incessant Hunting

By swerveball | Published: July 14, 2008
Just as I was about to go out the door this morning I noticed that one of my cats, Ethel, had not taken any food. This is unusual to say the least. They’re pretty much always hungry, and she didn’t even want her favourite biscuits. It turns out that there was a mouse under the [...]
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