Be Excellent To Each Other

I wouldn't use a distress flare dude, they're a bit like a firework and not really an indoor one. You can buy smoke tablets from any plumbers merhcants, they use them to test chimneys and whatnot.

Not the magnesium ones, the red or blue smoke ones. besides, how dangerous can it be?

Do you have white walls in there? I hope you have white walls.

I'm sure it will be fine. Can you set up a video camera just in case though.

Just make sure you record it, and instruct any next of kin to post the video on here so we can see what happens.

Like the time the BBC exploded Anthea Turner for shits and giggles.

Also, put the kettle on, because you'll possibly be getting visits from the police anti-terrorism unit and then the fire brigade fairly swiftly after neighbours see copious quantities of red smoke issuing from your bathroom window.

The bathroom window will be shut, as otherwise it won't go through the fan in the ceiling.

Don't worry, it'll be fine.

I thought there has to at least be a secureable ladder of some sort, which is what we had in our 1 fire exit office we used to have.

That's a lot. However I have just discovered that SDHC is now Old Hat and [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SDXC]SDXC[/url] can do that easily:

I think I read the world's geekiest thing today.

I haven't got a Flikr account but I would like one... I've just tried to sign up but it says I can't without getting a Yahoo mail account first.

I don't want one of these.

Is it possible to get a flikr account without a Yahoo account? I think not.

Needs more technical accuracy.

Not since Yahoo merged the signins way back when. Just think of it as a generic Yahoo account. You don't need to ever use the email for anything.

Nobody has done an adaptor for that format yet though. And most importantly, nobody has tested it. The SDHC path is tried and tested. You use SDHC for everyday work, and keep an 8GB Sony card for the slow mo shots.

Of course, why Sony are still charging so much is a mystery. They were reporting it would be far cheaper than it actually is when they launched the cameras. I can only assume there are production problems with getting memory that works fast enough.

No, because Yahoo use a single login across all their sites. You don't have to ever use the mail account though.

Get out of town. They are charging that much because there are plenty of people out there who simply pay it; either not realised they can use third party cards, or shit scared of filming an event and finding the third party card has crapped out.

Make sure to tell us your Flickr id.

Bloody plagarists.

I'm going to regret this, but...such as?

Unless you want "You had me at EHLO".

Congrats - you just made it geekier.

OH GOD NO. *covers ears*

God I hate TV shows where it constantly sounds like someone's flicking through an appalling CD of bad songs, never letting each play for more than 15 seconds. Why do they do this?

I'm not sure what sort of TV shows you mean there.

While I agree they will get what they can, they actually did make specific statements about the price of the memory. And now everybody is using 3rd party cards.

They've just launched a 32gb card for 800 quid + VAT which gets you 100 minutes. That's costing you 8 quid a minute. Or 1 Pro HDV tape per minute. Although granted the flash is reusable you'd have to use it alot of times to compete with tape. And remember Sony are still rolling out new tape cameras.

Basically the Sony solution costs 10 times what the 3rd party solution costs. It's not unusual for Sony to be charging more for "pro" formats but I can't see many people spending 800 quid per card, even broadcasters in these cash strapped times. The fact that this Aussie company are making a killing on the adaptors seems to suggest to me that Sony are missing out on revenue. Also cryptic statements from Sony saying they have tested the 3rd party solutions and they are unsupported suggests to me that even Sony know they can't come out and say the 3rd party solutions don't work or could be unreliable.

I'm watching a documentary about legal drugs and the music selection is reminding me of a programme about the North Sea oil rigs I tried to watch last night which must have had at least a hundred songs throughout its entirety, very few of which seemed to fit the situation or add anything to the programme at all. It was very jarring.

Not sure. "I didn't understand EHLO but you had me at HELO" maybe.

What the fuck is the story behind that?

See, that's just rubbish.

Why thank you all very much! We won £60 - vouchers rather than crisp £20 notes, but my tri-loving teammates (ahem) can use those and bung me the wonga. No one should mention that the thing cost £99 to enter, so we're down on the deal. No.

And a good point Curiosity - as I chanted "second" last night, it did sound a little hollow, whereas "not only not last but - crikey" had felt good earlier. But first place cheated by being very good, beat us in each discipline, 25 secs on the swim, 9 minutes on the bike, 3 on the run, so us gaining 11 seconds on the transitions didn't quite make up the difference.

It's Grim...'s Xbox360 "Being online playing Burnout Paradise" 3 day birthday! Happy birthday Grim...'s xbox! What did you get?

Wiki-me-do:

Ah gotcha. It can be a bit irritating, on the other hand Adam Curtis documentaries have music all the way through and it works really well.

Beex Day Out, anyone?

I thought we were getting a Variety Club Sunshine Bus to take us to Weston-Super-Mare?

Next year we're having an outing to Scotchland.

Actually, I'm serious. We should totally do that.

I think we should have a real life bezzie gaming meet up. Race karts or go paintballing or something like that.

What? Fuck!

I think we should all be dropped onto an island and forced to hunt and kill each other until only one of us survives.

Or karting, if you prefer.

Yes, I'd thought of that, too.

I reckon we should all have a day playing Dodgeball.. I just happen to know someone who's sorting out a league and it's great!

Note to self: need to reflash the PraiseBot firmware. It seems to have glitched and now only jabbers on about crap Ben Stiller films.

I've had enough of putting my balls on Zardoz's face.

Only if you pay for me to eat at Heston's pub while we're there.

Balls? I thought it was a Mole Rat.

Let's all go to Blackpool and kiss each other.

But the Zombie outbreak hasn't started yet.

Let's go to St Kilda!

You need a license from the SNH (or someone) to go there.

Go to the Isle of May instead.

Let's float off the coast of St Kilda!

You run the risk of being harpooned by Icelandic sailors.

that's why I said next year.