upstairs

i am proposing a new standard time for NZ - trademe time

watching an auction the other day, i realised how handy it would be to have my system clock set to "trademe time", so i could count down the seconds to last possible bid.

i'm firmly of the opinion that there is only ever one bid which counts on tardme, and it's not the highest but the last within a set period; this is a defining feature of online auctions that eludes many folks, but obviously not you because you're the kind of clever sod who reads crap like this.

this got me wondering:

across new zealand, how many people have digital watches with the seconds set to TRADEME TIME?

could this be our replacement for the national radio pips? after all, clock lady (0800000000) only gives you the minute, not the seconds ...

anyway, one day when i have too much time, i'll knock up a timeScraperBot that pulls the ticking time off trademe, and offer this to the world, my gift to tardme nerds and freaks nationwide, a standard time system.

once there was a lady charged with delivering the time to all of london. shane told me that, it must be true :)

a lot harder than naming mice!

you wouldn't believe it, would you?

neither would i ...

three within 24 hours - here's twinky (littlemouse's sister)

bubbles was downstairs

little mouse was upstairs

they both got caught last night (oooh, stereo!), little mouse is very small and was silly enough to check out a second trap after escaping the first (because it was 1am and i was fool enough to try and relocate her from the perfectly good wire cage into a jar, and she bounced straight out)

destined for: your house ...

first of all, some unrelated web developers association of aotearoa, er, new zealand, information. the web developers association of new zealand is a for profit company in the guise of a dot-org / 'association'. best to not be fooled by this. an interesting definition of WDANZ may be found at sids blog, although i'm not sure how 'warrior gene' made it into the glossary too.

ok so this is what you get for trying to recycle peecee hardware that's been left to rot on the side of the road. and RAM that's been floating around in spare desk drawers for a few years waiting for anything that will have it. and other parts. random ones that dr frankenstein would be proud of. but no lightning required.

6153-4
6153-3
6153-2
6153-1

and

6153via-1.pdf
6153via-2.pdf
6153via-3.pdf

why does this matter? you may ask. and "why are you posting this here, when you know full well the only computer you might want to read it from currently doesn't work anyway?" and i will say "it takes time to understand these things", or "solar flares", which is my favourite excuse for things not working and also a damn fine name for a clothing company if you don't mind the hippy connection (surely not)

justin, what i'm trying to say is "i think it's gone". the damn thing won't even light up. i wondered if it's the mainboard being jumpered to 133MHz or something. maybe i'll see if the CPU fits into the other box or SOMETHING.

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