Try switching browsers!… well, it might work!
I just saw this one from downloadsquad.com in my feed reader and it’s true!!
Visit http://www.capitalone.com/autoloans/ using Google Chrome and you get one rate (that’s it on the left), but use Firefox (on the right) and you get a much more attractive rate!
I have no idea why – maybe they just hate google!
One of those mornings when I arrive at work a little more stressed than usual because of the stupid behaviour of other road users:
So, while it’s fashionable to frame conflict on the roads as car vs. bike, the truth is much less defined. Arrogance and impatience can be found in a truck, a car, or on a bike.
In fact, if I had to draw a common factor to all three incidents, it would be the level of obsession with equipment and matching colours! Yep, the vacant blockhead in the doted-on black commodore was not so different from the two carbon mounted, matching lycra clad bike lane speedsters. Take a moment to consider people around you guys!
These days, web developers tend to use a lot of hosted services. It makes sense – you don’t want to have to re-write everything and host it locally. Unfortunately, at the same time you hand off responsibility, you also hand off control. If the remote service goes down or has problems, you have problems! … and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The latest culprit I’ve noticed is typekit.
I wondered why the site I was loading was so unresponsive, page load was 30-40 seconds. A quick look in the status bar told me…
Frustrating!
What is going on? is it a full moon or something?
In my 25 minute ride to work this morning I saw three completely stupid driving moments.
Three very stupid people – no damage done, but the odds are it will happen one day.
Just wanted to share a little ‘magic moment’, I encountered on the way home last night.
Riding up Royal Parade with the commuter peloton when, stopped at the lights, I noticed a woman on the footpath poking and peering at her bike. I was about to ask whether she needed a hand, when someone behind me beat me to it. Her reply:
It’s OK, there’s a spider on my bike!
OK, I shouldn’t laugh, because it was obviously a big problem for her to have an eight legged passenger, but all the same, it’s not exactly up there with broken chains and flat tyres, is it?
A short time went by during which she didn’t seem to make any headway with her problem, despite employing the time honoured ‘stick’ method of spider removal – apparently the beast in question was small enough to remain hidden somewhere around the headstem (Perhaps a magnifying glass would have helped!). Anyway, a far kinder person than me did eventually relent and join her on the footpath for a bit of impromptu pest removal.
I hope all survived the experience unscathed!
Yes, it was a great day for the pies and nice to finally stick it to all the detractors, after all, I think these two ardent fans have all their teeth intact!
Two google fanboy posts in one day! Still, they’re worth it 
Google have just made their short URL generating service available through a public web interface. This is not that earth shattering, I’ve been using the service via the chrome extension and it’s worked well for some time now.
However, the excitement starts if you’re logged in to your google account, when it will present you a nice little history of your created URLs with click counts, and basic reporting, but the feature I love is the auto generated QR code!
you don’t even need to be logged in to access this information, they have created a neat URL based way of accessing it, so for this short URL:
http://goo.gl/DsH0
there is an information page:
http://goo.gl/info/DsH0
and a direct link to the QR code:
http://goo.gl/DsH0.qr
Not only that, but the API for the QR code generator appears to be open and usable by anyone who generates the request URL!
Google are having fun again! Releasing StreetView Images of Antarctica is just brilliant. The bit I really love though, is that the little yellow Pegman becomes a penguin. Just too cute!
This is my mate Harry. I meet him on the way home sometimes. Sometimes he surprises me, but tonight I saw him ‘interacting’ with someone ahead of me, so I was ready – even had time to get the iPhone out and ready in movie mode!
I love magpies. The football team and the birds! Magpies are so gutsy – I mean I’m hundreds of times his size, but I’m invading his home and all he’s thinking about is the missus and the kids. You really can’t blame him for doing what the little voices in his head are telling him. Anyone who’s had chooks in their backyard can’t really be afraid of a bird.
… and look at that second effort! he’s probably wearing a number 8
Bear Grylls just posted a message to twitter about the trailer to his new season of Man v Wild. I like Bear, the show gets a bit monotonous and I wish he wouldn’t kill animals when he clearly doesn’t need to, but this latest trailer moved him into far more ridiculous territory. As I watched the unconvincing CGI of him commando rolling across an imaginary landscape, I was getting a memory of someone else. When he turned toward the camera in one of the final frames, it clicked! He is the spitting image of Arnold Rimmer!
Even better, he is Arnold Rimmer’s wet dream of how he wishes he could be! I’ll never be able to look at Bear the same way again!
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