Be Excellent To Each Other

I spent some time this morning doing some actual work from home; that means I can stick Caffeine on my PC with the volume turned up and get my PS4 on right?

Fished this out of the loft earlier. Now looking for a nice way to display it. Shame the back isn't great.

Happy birthday trooper and saturnalian

Removed as it was messing up the forum....

Windows Phone there; pushing the envelope.

Hmmm...+Maybe+the+new+
browser+isn't+actually+that+good%3f

What the fuck?

It's the world's first Newspeak autocorrect function.
++Good

What browser is it?

It's called Surfly but I'm uninstalling it now. If it can't even type properly, it's not worth bothering with.

I've Googled that and it doesn't seem to actually be a browser; it's just a way to share your session in a browser with someone else. Indeed it makes a big deal of how it doesn't require you to install anything?

Oh, wait, you mean Surfy; not Surfly.

A mate of mine at work was unearthing his tech graveyard at the weekend and this thing with it's foldout fabric keyboard is just breathtaking.

Lynx! Game Gear!

Hmm, I dicked around with the MagicWhizzer arrows at the bottom of that image and first it logged me out of the forum and now it's dropped the quality of that image down.

Ahhh FIFA, so much hubris and hopefully now we get to see some nemesis...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... -live.html

Don't suppose he wants to sell that Lynx does he?

And yes...Surfy. Sorry.

It's rubbish.

it has been an interesting morning

I asked him but nah, he's going to hold onto to. Fucks know why like as he doesn't use it and I guarantee he never will again.

Nevermind. Thanks for asking. I don't have a Lynx and I've always fancied one.

Would anyone like to see the awe inspiring cover for the latest council magazine?

Dudley always looks better in the dark.

I am working with a guy who used to write C64 games in the 80s.

Excellent. Any we might know?

Bring this to the 20 questions thread!

maybe Opera will be a better browser.

Nope... no spell check on the keyboard. Rubbish.

The keyboard functionality isn't standard across all the apps? That's fucking bizarre.

To be honest, that's the first app I've come across where it isn't. I can't explain it, never mind... I've uninstalled it now.

Happy Birthday Trooper. He ain't been on here in a bit either, has he? Or has he?

And Zaphod still ain't told us where he went on holiday. WHY IS THIS INFORMATION BEING SUPPRESSED?

He'll be in Scotland in June!

You have him in your dungeon?

Probably at Penrith train station with Dan.

What's the occasion?

No occasion really, I demanded his presence and he obliged We're going to see the Foos at Murrayfield and then having a few days of drinking craft beer and playing board games. You should come meet us for drinks at some point, he's up for a few days!

Bamba and Myp finally meet? Wow... I don't think I can cope!

I think you mean

Such a beautiful man.

Heath, not Myp.

Yeah, that would be awesome. Let me know what your plans are and we can sort something out.

A house we viewed is under accepted offer (5k below asking). The sellers want us to come and have a second look. The offer is 15k more than I/we/MrsA was going to offer, so I presume they want full asking. I really should get our gaff up for sale and get MrsA to sort out her job.

Also: Shit knows how single parents deal with kids and work on a daily basis. I have done it for 2 days and am on the edge of a breakdown. Chapeau!

Why do people say 'chance' when they mean 'opportunity?' A corporate email to all staff today, with the subject 'Your chance to test drive an electric car.' It's not a lottery, we just have to ask.

/pedant hat off.

No choice but to get on with it

Sometimes Google seems to be fucking terrible. I wanted to know if a particular game had ever been released for Android so I searched for and yet it moves android. The first hit there for me is the Wiki page for the game, which struck me as odd given that I'd checked the wiki page which had no mention of Android. Sure enough, doing a find on the current version of the wiki page found no mention of that word. I thought maybe 'android' had been mentioned on the page when Google last looked at it and subsequently removed but Google's cached version of the page also doesn't mention Android at all. Why the fuck is that page the top hit for a search when one of the search terms doesn't exist on the page at all? Surely that's a cardinal sin in the search engine business?

Interestingly Bing does a similar thing in that it returns the game's official site as the top hit even though it also doesn't mention Android at all. What the fuck?

To require a word on Google (and maybe others), you put it in speech marks.

#safe=off&q=and+yet+it+moves+%22android%22">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=and+y ... android%22

I actually though you put a + before it (which I tried and it made no difference) whereas the quotes is for if you want to look for a set of words in a particular order. Although it's still a weird concept, if I didn't want results including that word I just wouldn't have put it in the query at all, why should you have to 'confirm' that you meant to add it?

Because it will exclude any results that don't contain that term.

It's to make sure words are on the page in a particular order, but just putting one word does the same thing (ie. makes sure it's on the page). Putting a "bare" word at the end makes it less important than the words at the start (if you put Android first you get different results).

A plus sign did used to make a word required, but now it makes it prioritise Google Plus results.