Clickies

[mattp]

I've not done the clicky-thing for a while, so here're a few in one post to keep you entertained.

One for the German-speaking amongst you
For the drivers amongst you
For the tetris geeks - use this if that URL fails
Bad programming technique
Possibly worksafe (text-only). Not brain-safe though
To prove that I'm still thinking of you lot in Manchester: http://www.hemispheresmagazine.com/15facts/2005/manchester.htm
I recently learned that vegetarianism and Roget's thesaurus were created there.

Comments

[nocturnia.livejournal.com]

On the meet manchester facts... Number 5 isn't correct.

Firstly; Oldham isn't in Manchester, nor was it at the time that the first test tube baby was conceived or born.
Secondly; the hospital is called Royal Oldham Hospital, not Oldham General Hospital.
Though it may have been called the latter at the time of the baby.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

Hoorary for pedantry :-)

[paul.livejournal.com]

If by Manchester we presume they are talking about Greater Manchester as the Metropolitan district then Oldham does count as it was placed into Greater Manchester in 1974.

From what I can research you are correct about the name of the hospital though :-)

for Tetris geeks

[timpootle.livejournal.com]

Colin Fahey seems to have fallen over.
Happy new year Matt

Re: for Tetris geeks

[mattp.livejournal.com]

Shame - the DNS servers are returning SERVFAIL. A dramatic way to stop hits if you've reached your bandwidth, but it'd do the job I guess.

Thankfully The Way Back Machine has a copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20050308110748/http://www.colinfahey.com/2003jan_tetris/tetris_strategy.htm