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  • Duff Goldman

    An interview with Ace of Cakes’ Duff Goldman. “My dream Star Wars cake would be the scene in Empire where Han Solo opens up the belly of the tauntaun and shoves Luke in there. I think that’d be pretty cool.” WANT CAKE! [via]

  • Video on Flickr

    After much speculation, Flickr announced yesterday that they are now dealing with video content. Now while this could be one of those very bad ideas, and many people on Flickr are screaming YouTube! It does come with a few caveats. You must be a Pro member to upload videos and it’s limited to 90 seconds and/or 150mb filesize.

    That should hopefully save Flickr from the copyright infringement that’s rampant on YouTube.

    Anyways, as I don’t have a video to use for an example, I’ll use this fine, creative effort made by someone else.

    Just don’t expect so see any videos from me anytime soon…

  • Finally…

    After a long, drawn out affair (read 15 months), the Charlotte Bobcats have finally confirmed that the Bobcats Arena will now be known as Time Warner Cable Arena

    So I finally get to bust this picture loose again, some 5 weeks after it was taken.

    Flickr: Time Warner Cable Arena?

    This is the infamous picture that scored me 4 Bruce Springsteen tickets courtesy of Greg Economou, the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Bobcats Sports & Entertainment. Seriously…

    Time Warner Cable Arena?

    Originally uploaded by FLC.

  • Are You Crazier Than a Third Grader?

    Two students in Waycross, Georgia have been arrested in connection with a plot to attack their teacher. I should mention these students are in the THIRD GRADE. As many as nine students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife. The scheme involved a division of roles, one child’s job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, and another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

  • Coined

    The Royal Mint is coming out with a very cool set of new coins. The Shield of the Royal Arms has been given a contemporary treatment and its whole has been cleverly split among all six denominations from the 1p to the 50p, with the £1 coin displaying the heraldic element in its entirety. This is the first time that a single design has been used across a range of United Kingdom coins. [via]

  • House Hunting

    The Brighton at AntiquityWay back at the start of this year, I set forth 5 goals, after the 1st quarter I’m probably no closer to attaining 3/5. I haven’t bugged Robyn for any material items, but then nothing of note has come out since then… And let’s face it, Rock Band for the Wii is due out June 22nd. Last week we saw a house (a proper house, not a townhouse that we were looking at in the same development) that is perfect in many ways…

    For starters, we’re in the best place to be right now… We can buy a house without needing to sell one. And as the market goes further and further down the tubes, we’ll be making out like bandits soon enough. And even though Charlotte isn’t sliding down like, for example, Atlanta, that doesn’t mean everything is coming up roses here. But we’re ahead of the curve.

    So we went to see a single family house, having previously viewed a townhome in this development, we knew this is where we wanted to be. And you know that saying “you know as soon as you open the door”? Oh, we knew… This place is gorgeous, dark hardwood floors throughout, dark wood, stainless steel appliances, the list goes on…

    We actually went to see it twice. Now we’re crunching the numbers and initially it looks favourable.

    So who knows, there is a downside… If we move soon, we face the possibility of moving the cats to a strange new house then ditching them as we leave for 2 weeks in Scotland at the end of May, or we wait till after then and face the possibility of my brother and his family visiting while we’re still unpacking. Or we move really soon, but too soon for me as we haven’t even begun packing.

    EDIT (8:40pm): Well, we made an offer… Now we wait… SQUEEE!

    EDIT (1/4/08 3:00pm): Oh shit, our offer was accepted, now we freak out! SQUEEE!

    The Brighton at Antiquity (set)

    Originally uploaded by FLC.

  • Cinderella’s Still Dancing…

    Davidson continue a remarkable run as they beat Wisconsin in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament. The Davidson campus is about 5 or so miles away from our front door, we drove around the town last night and it was full of signs of support for the team. Now they’re in the Elite Eight, it should be even better…

  • WordPress 2.5 Thoughts

    As a Release Candidate of WordPress 2.5 has been available for just over a week, I thought I’d givie it a try as I’m a sucker for beta stuff (I’m using Firefox 3 Beta 4 right now for example). Now there has been a big change in the admin section (you can see screenshots and see it in action on the WordPress dev blog) and I’ll safely say 99.9% of these changes are for the better, I just have one gripe… And I view this to be a major oversight.

    Well, it wouldn’t be a WordPress related post without me complaining, wouldn’t it?

    If you’re like me and chose not to use the WYSIWYG editor back when 2.0 came out, you’ve now lost the quicktags functionality.

    WordPress 2.5 Write Screen, minus Quicktags

    That is it, and I only complain as I had an edited version that used <b> and <i> instead of <strong> and <em> and added an option for an image class, everything else is very impressive.

    I was originally turned off by the changes in layout, but just over a week later I’m pretty happy, I’m glad I can now alter feeds on the Dashboard without hard coding them. I like I can update plugins with one click (and remembering FTP information) instead of having to go out, download, unzip, upload and check to see if anythings broken. And the only plugin that broke was the iPhone admin, and the new admin works well enough on an iPhone screen so it’s not that big a deal, at least for me.

    I’m looking forward to this moving out of beta, it’ll give me an excuse to update my theme, or perhaps move on to Scam City version 10 (codenamed SCX), as I’ve had this look for over 2 years now. Not that I dislike it, hence why I might just retire the version 9.0 tag as it’s gone beyond a joke now…

    EDIT (31/3/08 12:25pm): Now I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 proper, the quicktags have reappeared! Hooray! But a word of warning (as I found out on our work-related blog) WP 2.5 doesn’t play well with K2’s Sidebar Manager.

  • Muxtape

    Muxtape, a simple way to make a mixtape. Very simple, upload 12 songs, rearrange them and your done. You can hear mine here.

  • Rick on the Roll

    Rick Astley on the phenomenon that is “Rickrolling”. He’s never gonna give you up, y’know… Never gonna let you down…

  • Reasons to Be Cheerful

    Usually I’m quick to criticise Robyn’s ever expanding TiVo wishlists/season pass lists. Seriously, 99% of the TiVo recordings are hers, and 95% of those are “just because.” But we found out tonight that the one I criticise the most has finally paid off, for me at least…

    Before we went to the UK a couple of years ago, she set up a Scotland and Scottish wishlist to capture anything remotely interesting before her first visit. It was usually travel programmes, some good, most bad, but the wishlists stayed. Nowadays it throws up travel, cooking and the occasional PBS programme that may or may not be worthwhile, but as she exclaimed tonight, it caught something interesting.

    Scotland vs. Croatia

    Sweetness… Long time readers will know the efforts I’ve gone through to seeing or listening to Scotland games in the past, like the France vs. Scotland game in French for instance. I’ve never had it so easy, it’s now on my TV, recordable, what a novel concept… One I might get used to.

    A little more searching unearthed a stunning turn of events…

    Rangers vs. Celtic

    FUCK ME! This is the game to end all games… I’ve not seen a Rangers game since… Well, if you must know it was the Partick Thistle game on November 1st 2003, a game I was at! So basically 4½ years, give or take… Sure, it’s not live, in fact it’s going to be over a day old by the time I get to see it, but it matters not. I finally get to see a Rangers game, and it’s the biggest game of the year. I’ll have to turn off the internet for the weekend, avoid any kind of contact to anyone who might know the score (which is harder than you might think).

    I’m more stunned that Fox Soccer is showing anything related to Scottish football, as it seems to me they have an English bias, but I won’t complain, I can only hope it’s a sign of things to come…