andrew’s blog of amusing stuff

What Is Konfabulator?
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, [...]

A JUNIOR doctor who has been left nearly £50,000 in debt after putting herself through 10 years of study and training says she cannot now get a job – despite applying for 50.
Melissa Marlow, aged 30, of Ham Green, has applied for three jobs in Bristol and a total of 50 jobs across the [...]

For the third year in a row, he’s taken home the trophy for ugliest dog at the Sonoma-Marin Fair — one of the premiere lineups of less-than-lovely dogs in the country.

Wah, seriously this dog can give me nightmares. His name is Sam, a purebreed Chinese Crested Hairless. He’s almost 15 years old now. He even [...]

I read from somewhere that Yahoo domains charges $4.99 per year for up to 5 years for its .com domain. But I tried looking at yahoo domains website but still couldn’t find anything that explains the offer (from the website, Yahoo Domains is on sale at $9.95 instead). Is there anyone here who is using [...]

Google is famous for its search engine.
I stumbled upon these two sites which looked very similar to Google, but they are a lot more interesting…. Read more:

Toogle
The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.
I’m not really sure what image buggery means, but I’ll let the picture do the talking. I searched for “pandaboy” and [...]

After introducing a USD2 per year hosting, I have another great offer to share with everyone. It’s the domain name registration offer for only USD3.95 per year (which is around RM15 or 2.24pounds per year!). It’s only a limited time offer for .com and .net domain registration only.
Click on the banner below to register [...]

I’m going directly to the point.
* 40MB space
* 400MB bandwidth/month
* 1 MySQL database
* 5 E-mail accounts
* PHP 4.3.11, Frontpage Extensions, CGI Bin (Perl 5.6.1), Custom Error Pages, Server Side Includes (SSI/.shtml) supported
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I found this free game called Guess-The-Google. First, I have to warn you, I’ve tried it and it’s addictive!
What is the game all about?
You’ll be given a collection of photos from Google Image Search and then you have to guess the keyword used to find these images. It’s not as easy as it sounds [...]