The replacement tap was only $97.  A bargain considering it is a Dorf.

• It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
• One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
• The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
• Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
• A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
• Women blink twice as often as men.
• The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
• Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
• If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
• Men who read this are probably still busy checking their thumbs.

This reminds me of the shearing sheds we have in country Victoria.You can see it at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, between 22 November and the 8 March.

The address is:
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen, Victoria
Australia

If you’re really clever, you would visit on the days they have Exhibition Tours.

I’m doing some analysis of Help Desk data, and I often use Excel for this task.  Now I know a helpdesk caller did log a problem with the subject “five things I hate about my iPhone”.

But Excel couldn’t find it (see picture right).

The problem was caused by the Excel feature “Find by format” feature (red dot).  To turn it off, click on the Format button (green dot), and then select the Clear option.

The Three Laws Of Consulting, via Alik Levin’s MSDN BLog

1. “In spite of what your client may tell you, there’s always a problem.”
2. “No Matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.”
3. “Never forget they’re paying you by the hour, not by the solution”.

Stop stealing my blog posts…..

There has been some discussion recently on some DL’s here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don’t like saying copyrighted because copyrights get a bad rap these days depending on who you speak to, but from the perspective that *I* sat down and *I* wrote the blog post, the work does belong to me.
- Stop stealing my blog posts (Chris E. Avis)

This sort of thing REALLY annoys me.
I wrote about ideas theft here: “I came up with it all by myself.” – on theft of ideas in corporate life

Five Tibetan Rituals

How to get my job – the secret of becoming a professional writer, by Jerry Pournelle

Six Seven free Adobe PDF creators
– added Print2PDF

6 10 free programs to recover deleted files
– added File Recovery 4, Recover Files, SoftPerfect File Recovery & PC Inspector – Smart card Recovery

10 13 Screen Capture Utilities
- added PicPick, Jing & Screenshot Captor

There was an episode of Law & Order SVU on recently, dealing with a teenager who couldn’t control his sex drive, and who eventually raped his teacher.

I’m sure the victim of a sex offender is never the same again.  Oh sure, there is counselling, but the damage to the soul remains.  In the case of people who have been molested as children, 80% of them go on to become child molesters themselves.  Often the remaining 20% will have issues with forming relationships, this makes them the true victims.  So let’s stop the recidivism cycle of sex offenders.  And how do we do that?

Rule 303!

“Was it like this?” fiercely answered Morant. “No; it was not quite so handsome. As to rules and regulations, we had no Red Book, and knew nothing about them. We were out fighting the Boers, not sitting comfortably behind barb-wire entanglements; we got them and shot them under Rule 303,” referring to the .303 calibre Lee-Enfield rifles the Carbineers carried.
- Court martial of Breaker Morant

I don’t believe sex offenders can be cured.  Sure we can medicate them, but when the medication stops, or they refuse to take it?  Far better, and simpler for society, if we just shoot them under Rule 303.  And then to leave them to rot in Dante’s Second Circle of Hell.

Just tapped my blog url into Wordle, and it generated this Word Cloud.  Interesting.

From an office in Alice Springs.

Two kinds of government chair correspond with the two kinds of minister: one sort folds up instantly and the other sort goes round and round in circles.

- Yes Minister, Open Government