Category: Life

It’s a scary thought; TV On Demand. This article discusses (using fairly unexciting techno-speak)the potential of a whole new form of our addiction (link)

Just like the X-Wings against the Death Star in Star Wars, it seems the bigger Big Brother gets, the easier it is to slip in under his radar. Hot on the heels of the news that you can break CD copy protection with a felt-tip pen, comes the news that finger-print recognition technologies can be easily thwarted with materials no more advanced than a jelly baby. (link)

OK, I get the message; the interactive sections aren’t working. Oh, well; worth a shot. I’ve taken out the message board and all that sort of rot, so it’s pure Dave-driven content from here on. Hopefully it’ll be a little easier to keep track of!

Here’s a small intro for guimp: the world’s smallest website. Heh.

You know the old advice: “Smile; people will think you’re up to something.”? Well, don’t. (link)

Ainslie and I have been waiting for these cool ‘tablet’ gadgets to arrive; it now seems that they’ll start rolling off the conveyor belt in the US in October. (link) Yeah, right.

So much for multi-million dollar copy protection research; it seems the new trick for making copy-proof CDs can be beaten with a texta. (link). I think that’s pretty funny.

Geocaching is a new ‘sport’, sort of like a global treasure hunt, where you’re given some instructions on where to find a ‘cache’ near you; sometimes you have to use a GPS. I’ve found a few around Perth, which I’ll have to check out, but you might have some near you, as well.

One of the big problems of being called a common name like ‘David Cook’ is that there are a lot more ‘david cooks’ out there who aren’t you than who are. I am *so* outnumbered. (That’s one of the reasons this site is called ‘BONWAG’ rather than something like ‘David Cook’s Website’. I was a little annoyed when ‘cookware.com’ was bought by someone else before I’d thought of it. Even ‘davidcook.com’ is sort-of taken.)
A search on Google reveals over 22 thousand matches for ‘David Cook’, while a search for ‘Ainslie Robinson’, say, reveals only 12, most of which are about the right person. I actually had two good friends when I was younger, both called David Cook, both living within a few streets of my home.
The good thing is, that none of us ‘david cook’s is really famous yet, and no-one has co-opted the name ‘David’ (like Elton, Kylie and Madonna have).
There’s still time.

Another US Study, which I suspect amply applies to Australians as well, discusses the relative cleanliness of the office desk. Verdict; you’d be 400 times safer eating your lunch off a toilet (link)