I’ve been trying out some albums recently.

Things I’m Currently Trying Out

At the moment I’m listening to a “Best of David Bowie (’69-’74)” album. My mother bought me it when I was sixteen, or sometime around that age, and I didn’t really like it that much back then. So I thought I’d pull it out now and give it another go. So far, I’m liking it much better than I did then.

If you are unaware of the 98%/2% email, you might want to go here to try it out, otherwise the remainder of this post will spoil it for you.

About a month ago, my brother forwarded me an email with a few mathematical questions and then a question that asked you to quickly think of a tool and a colour. According to the email, 98% of people will come up with red and hammer. I did this, got the red hammer result and was mildly surprised.

There was a quote from an Australian on the radio today that, to me, epitomises their more easy going attitude to life than ours in England.

There has been a crocodile stolen from a wildlife park in Australia. In the UK, we would have a boring description of the audacity of the people who stole the crocodile, followed by information not to go near it if you happen to find it in your pond or wherever. In Australia, the quote went something like this:

I decided to remove the brown for a while. I’d like to go to something a lot simpler, similar to the current layout, but I don’t think it’s quite there yet. Might have to kill off the screenshots and maybe even the chatbox.

I’ve come across a site called SiteAdvisor which is the product of a research effort at MIT. It aims to provide a protection from sites that contain spyware and/or are known to send spam emails. This is done by means of a browser plugin — available for both Firefox and IE — which has a green/amber/red safety indicator to inform you about the safety of a site. It tells you both about sites that you visit directly, and it will categorise Google and Yahoo search results, allowing you to avoid the dodgy sites.