Archive for 2006

11 Surprisingly Useful Household Tips

Some actually useful and quite surprising household tips from some program on Japanese TV the other night. Make tangerines or oranges extra sweet by putting them in 40C water for 10mins before eating Old jeans are great for cleaning scum from baths and stainless steel basins If you’re trying to push a stalled car, don’t [...]

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The Best of Bash.org

<timovgod> Q: How many perverts does it take to put in a light bulb? <timovgod> A: Just one, but it takes the entire emergency room to get it out. <enaz> did your insurance cover it timovgod? <timovgod> My car insurance covered it, I said I had I broken tail light. <kolby> you know those bathrooms [...]

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Cool WordPress Plugins

Some very cool WordPress plugins to spice up your blog.

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International Salary Calculator

The International Salary Calculator is a good site for those interested in comparing incomes between cities. Basically you punch in your income in the city you currently live in and then pick where you want to live and it will tell you how much you need to earn in the new country/city to have the [...]

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Unattended Microsoft Office 2003 Installation

The Definitive How-to guide for preparing an unattended installer for Office 2003 http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/ Note that previous Office versions recommended installing from an administrative install point, however from Office 2003 Microsoft now recommends using the Office Local Cache for deployment. Although this takes up an additional 290MB of local disk space and you cannot slipstream patches to [...]

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Undervolt your Laptop

Theres an interesting article at http://www.nordichardware.com/Articles/?skrivelse=465 on how to undervolt your laptop. Undervolting involves reducing the voltage your CPU operates at with the result of lowering your laptops temperature and the amount of power used, so you get longer battery life, all without reducing performance or stability. I’ve got to try this on my desktop because [...]

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Optimus Keyboard

JP pointed out a very sexy keyboard. Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a display in itself and can change depending on the function it is assigned for. Very cool indeed.

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Cute lil buggers

I got glared at at work for laughing out loud at the cute lil animals at JustaLittleGuy. Very funny stuff

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