Archive for Tuesday 24 September, 2002
WiFi broadband started paying dividends last night. Having told flatmates that McVities called their Jaffa Cakes™ cakes so that they could avoid the higher tax of being biscuits, they looked at me like I was crazed. Reaching for the laptop I quickly did a Google and there it was in black and white. That silenced them ;o)
Talking of boring your mates. My favourite motorway game for long journeys is called the File Name Game. In it you look for cars whose registrations end in a three letter combination (all UK plates have a 3 digit sequence in them e.g. T638 WUT or LX02 THY) the same as the three letter combination of a file type (eg. DOC, JPG). When you see one you tell everyone in the car. Most fun is had when you're forced to play alone because nobody else has a clue what you're talking about. Anyway, here's a list of them all. I can only remember seeing NSF once or twice
Damn, I really am a nerd!
