Apr 19

A piece of ZX Spectrum nostalgia

Posted by James Netherton | Saturday 19 April 2008 4:04 AM | In Funny

Those of you lucky enough to own a Sinclair Spectrum will remember the joys of popping your favourite game into the cassette player and then sitting back to watch the stripy colours flashing while the game loads. Sometimes after waiting 5 – 10 minutes you’d be presented with the words….

R Tape loading error, (0:1)

You can now relive this experience online over at http://www.rtapeloadingerror.com/, albeit without tape loading and 5 – 10 minutes waiting time.

Don’t have a clue what I’m talking about? Shame on you! Head over to these links to find out more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Jan 30

Create your own O’Reilly cover

Posted by James Netherton | Wednesday 30 January 2008 8:01 AM | In Funny

This is very cool….

http://www.oreillymaker.com/

Originally discovered over at Ajaxian.

Jul 30

61% Addicted to blogging

Posted by James Netherton | Monday 30 July 2007 0:07 AM | In Funny

Thought I’d follow some of the other CF bloggers and see what my blogging addiction score comes out as:

61%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Not bad, I thought it would have been quite a bit less :-)

Mar 22

The “Works on My Machine” Certification Program

Posted by James Netherton | Thursday 22 March 2007 11:03 AM | In Funny

No doubt we’ve all said at some point to our business users “Well it worked on my machine!”. Well, now you can join the certification program!