Dr Deviant

I currently work in an environment that is so frustrating due to the lack of communication in general, but I think it pales into insignificance when compared with the Olympic logo design committees around the world. Not satisfied with their last attempt for London in 2012, then decided to lend a hand to the Chinese committee [...]

While reading with interest a couple of posts about Microsoft Live Mail and Google GMail security being penetrated, I also saw another interesting articles on CAPTCHA.
By the way CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. A bit of a mouthful but basically its those really annoying images that show you [...]

Some numpty reckons that banning cheap booze in supermarketswill stop under-age binge drinking. Probably the same guy that reckons banning condoms will stop teenage pregnancy, or that because drugs are illegal, no-one takes them.

All the tree hugging hippies ramble on about saving the planet… think about it for a minute…
Mankind is like a bad dose of planetary herpes. Once we pollute the planet enough the human race will kill itself off and cease to exist, leaving the planet to recover and only bear the scar of humanisation.
don’t think [...]

When a plane crashes sometimes they say on the news that the remain have to be identified by dental records. This is something that has suddenly interested me, not that my name has been removed from the no fly list yet, but if they don’t know who the hell you are, how do they know [...]

REALLY PISSING ME OFF!!!

Well, I am still investigating the rumour (apparently some bollocks on Radio 4 this morning) that you cannot use the word ‘Olympic’ any more, or ‘2012′ but looking at the official logo which according to reports “… will evolve in the run-up to the Games.” has attracted some interesting publicity.

Due to a scientific quirk called the Mpemba effect hot water can freeze quicker than cold water.

I always thought that planning things was a skill that most people can acquire, however have recently tried for myself, the dark art of project management seems to be less about planning and more about reducing the ability for flapping idiots to cause harm to an otherwise simple process.

In my previous post where I had defended my companies interests at the expense of being threatened with the sack by a company I don’t actually work for, the full report was published today. Well, I say full report. It was, in actual fact a bullet pointed version of the report I had sent them [...]