Monday, 14 January 2008 7 things learned from making a Top Gear audition tape

Thanks go out to Elephino for today's submission, cheers mate :)

  1. The blooper reel will always be at least 10 times longer than usable footage
  2. The most inane and normal things can put someone into fits of laughter and no one else gets it until watching it back later
  3. What seems like a good idea at the time can be ruined by good weather (well, 37 degree heat really)
  4. A team of researches, fact finders and helpers would have been great to have for finding locations, holding umbrellas, keeping drinks cool and making life easier for the "stars"
  5. It would be much harder to make it interesting with only 1 person being in the audition tape
  6. If at first you do succeed, do it again anyway as you'll often find it's still better the second time
  7. No matter how much you prepare, it's never enough

Sunday, 13 January 2008 7 fastest...

  1. Fastest time to pluck a turkey - 1m30s, 17th Nov 1980, Vincent Pilkington
  2. Fastest car window opened by a dog - 11.34s, 1st Sep 2004, Striker
  3. Fastest run 100m barefoot on ice - 17.35s, 8th Dec 2006, Nico Surings
  4. Fastest time to east a 12" pizza - 19.91, 2nd Dec 2006, Tom Waes
  5. Fastest Lunge Mile - 30m50s, 27th Oct 2002, Ashrita Furman
  6. Fastest Furniture - 92mph, 11th May 2007, Edd China and Marek Turowski (motorized sofa)
  7. Fastest Pumpkin Carving - 24.03s, 23rd Jul 2006, Stephen Clarke

Saturday, 12 January 2008 7 little pills

Friday, 11 January 2008 7 HTTP error codes I've never seen in the wild

  1. 010 - Check word not found
  2. 300 - Multiple Choices
  3. 303 - See other
  4. 305 - Use proxy
  5. 410 - Gone
  6. 416 - Requested Range not satisfiable
  7. 417 - Expectation failed

Thursday, 10 January 2008 7 facts about Toblerones

  1. In 1932 Tobler made the first filled bars of chocolate, the Tobler-O-rum.
  2. The product's name is a portmanteau combining Mr. Tobler's name with the Italian word torrone (a type of nougat).
  3. A single piece of Toblerone is known as an "Alp".
  4. There is a hidden bear in the Matterhorn mountain on the Toblerone logo.
  5. The shape of an "Alp" is registered as a trademark.
  6. The largest Toblerone you can buy weighs 4.5 kg and has 12 peaks.
  7. Toblerone is a Kosher food!

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 7 gadgets 'Gadget-Man' has bought recently

  1. SD based video recorder
  2. In car sandwich toaster
  3. Under sofa lighting
  4. UPS for a video recorder
  5. Under pillow speaker
  6. Wi-Fi T-Shirt
  7. Remote control kettle

Tuesday, 8 January 2008 7 days in January

  1. 1st - Went for a walk in Ashridge Forest, along with half the local populace it seemed!
  2. 2nd - Went shopping and Bekie managed to get a massive static charge in her hair turning it into Medussa hair before discharging the shock into me!
  3. 3rd - Sorted out a complete power cut in my works server room traced eventually to a 80amp fuse
  4. 4th - Went to the Royal Opera House to see the Beatrix Potter ballet
  5. 5th - Trip (the long way round) to Milton Keynes to buy stuff in the sales
  6. 6th - Lazy day, making roast and playing Scrabble
  7. 7th - Installed EGroupware on the company mail server as an 'Experiment'