February 2006 - Posts

Chipped Paper

greg hughes - dot - net - RFID chip you can fit in a sheet of paper
An article that's got to make some people more than a little nervous. Imagine if an RFID chip could be embedded in a piece of paper, virtually undetectable.

Recent Links #6

CNN.com - 25 words that hurt your resume - Jan 20, 2006
Instead of making empty claims to demonstrate your work ethic, use brief, specific examples to demonstrate your skills.

tech.memeorandum @ 5:35 PM ET, February 1, 2006
Politicians on Wednesday attacked Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Yahoo for declining to appear at a briefing about China's Internet censorship and called for a new law to outlaw compliance with such requirements. Surely some mistake.

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Luke 6:41
Some of the collateral damage from Bush's war on terror.

Google Earnings Disappoint; Shares Plunge: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
I'm pretty sure that Google's share price is way too high.

A Sabre Geek: TwoDollarPixel.Com
Innovation Analysis Group has taken the concept to the next level. Not only will they put up an ad link to your web site for $2 a pixel, they will also incorporate their WebMonitorXP tool that will tell the ads owner when someone visits their site.

Mr. Speaker » Blog Archive » Hacking Windows Pinball
Load up the game and type the words hidden test.

Thin Pickings at the Brox

Let’s face it,  Rangers are crap at the moment.  Today’s performance against a competent Hibs was especially crap.  Chris Burke was given the sponsors man of the match but the could have picked a name out of a hat; no one was any good. 

We lost three bad goals and could have lost more.  Kyriagos and Andrews, the heart of the solid defence of last season, look lost playing together; and neither full back inspires confidence.

The midfield looks lightweight and lacking in ideas.  Barry Ferguson is completely out of touch; not supplying the guile, energy and drive that he is capable of bringing to the team and there is no one else with any real class in the Rangers midfield.

For the past couple of months the Rangers forwards have been reasonably effective but today, they were also crap.  Wrong decisions were made by all of the forwards on show with none of them looking convincing.

Rangers have scraped together a reasonable run of league results but without playing really well at any time.  The Scottish Cup was our last realistic possibility of winning a trophy this season.  With that gone, it is going to be a serious struggle maintaining interest for the rest of the season.  We have the Champions League game coming up but we will be second favourite in that. I don’t have much confidence and really can’t see us getting through.  So, within a couple of months this season could be effectively over.  Maybe we will catch Hearts, maybe we will stay ahead of Hibs (although we look like an inferior team) but this is thin pickings compared to our normal feast.

Rangers are now an also-ran; part of the chasing pack.  This season is an effective right-off.  If there are not significant changes made in the summer, next season may not be any better.  It’s not a good time to be a Rangers supporter.