Rolling Along..

Its a blog..

A weblog by Chris Jones

Messing about with boats

Check out http://www.shipais.com/ it shows the (nearly) real-time position of a significant proportion of the large boats within UK territorial waters.

[ Entry posted at: Thu 20 Mar 2008 13:49:24 UTC | Comments: 0 | Cat: Random ]

Cock, Smellie, Daft and Shufflebottom?

From BBC News... 

"Surnames including Cock, Smellie, Daft and Shufflebottom have been dumped by people since 1881, compared with figures in 1998."

I wonder why?

[ Entry posted at: Thu 31 Aug 2006 10:45:56 UTC | Comments: 0 | Cat: Random ]

Place names!

The UK has some brilliant place names...

Today I came across the small village of Login, out west of St Clears.

Anyone know of any other geeky place names?

[ Entry posted at: Fri 18 Aug 2006 10:28:40 UTC | Comments: 1 | Cat: Random ]

On the psychology of progress bars..

It seems progress bars draw people in..

There have been at least 2 occasions in recent weeks where everyone entering the lounge being faced with at least one other person watching a progress bar has joined in, seemingly forgetting what ever it was they were doing in the first place.

What is it about progress bars that make them so compelling?

[ Entry posted at: Wed 12 Oct 2005 16:09:02 UTC | Comments: 2 | Cat: Random ]

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