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Who made the .mobi domain so long?

Dave — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:30:03 +0000

I have been examining how I use 'tinternet on my phone more and more over the last few months. Ownership of the N95 really has altered how I view the web, and also how I use it. I have read a couple of posts recently regarding the good (contains harsh language) and the bad of the mobile web. Most of the issues I have revolve around the limited user control I have through the phone, in particular this makes text entry difficult. So why add insult to injury by making the .mobi domain one of the longest top level domain extensions for a user to enter? Just a thought.

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Dave — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:34:25 +0000

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OT: A joke for friday

Dave — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:55:13 +0000

The following is an 'actual' question given on a University of Liverpool chemistry final exam.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues via the Internet,.

Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's law that gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that, if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell. Because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay constant, the volume of Hell must expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Sandra during my freshman year, that "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is endothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is extinct .. leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being - which explains why, last night, Sandra kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A".

Windows Live Mail Beta Invites

Dave — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:05:26 +0000

Today I was the proud recipient of an invite to the Windows Live Mail 'Beta'. The email described the features of the new Hotmail application and very good it sounds too. Although one thought came to mind as i read, re-read and then scoured the source code.

As a 'beta' tester i have already become concerned as to the quality of the application. You see the big ‘join now' 'link' was not live.

As yet i am unsure if this is a sneaky way by Microsoft to weed out all the FireFox users before they get to the application, or if the content stripping of Hotmail got a bit over zealous.

But it occurred to me, if you are going to start a beta program. You might want to test the invites work :p