Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : Humour

Wondering what to do this weekend then check this out!!

dglover — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:59:00 GMT

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e73_1192213802

Designer vs Developer Photo Shotout: Go on, judge a book by its cover:)

dglover — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:49:00 GMT

Go on, upload a ya piccie and let others be the judge, are you a designer, a developer or neither, it's a bit of a laugh:)

Go to http://designervsdeveloper.com.au/default.aspx

Oh and btw, the site defaults to designer, do don't do what I did, opps...

Cheers, Dave

SOA Facts - this is a must read and hilarious

dglover — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:49:00 GMT

http://soafacts.com/index.html - this is a must read and very funny!!

Oh and I've not fallen off planet earth, I've been travelling the world, tech training, skiing, visiting friends and family and laughing a lot:)

Currently doing the ISV Innovation Roadshow across Oz and will post up Open Office XML and Office Custom UI Extensibility samples by the end of this week!!

Cheers and enjoy SOA Facts and thanks Phil (Yeardley of Adelaide fame), Dave

Windows 386 Sales/Marketing Time Warp Video – Fun/Humour

dglover — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:16:00 GMT

Peter sent this through and too funny not to share if you are looking for a brief distraction!!

See http://impdr.com/, scroll down to "Windows 386", reckon it's worth watching the whole video, but yes, at 7 minutes it does hot up... J

Lol, the first cartoon is kinda funny too...

I'm assuming the video is for real, but hey this is the netJ

Cheers, Dave

Driving in Bolivia - Ya gotta check this out - fun/humour

dglover — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:44:00 GMT

This is quite possibly doing the rounds on the Internet at the moment - but wow, suddenly Italian motorways don’t seem so terrifying ;)

See attachment, it's been scanned for viruses...

Cheers, Dave

Microsoft and Apple Collaborate on iPod Branding - Surely not... Fun/Laugh!!

dglover — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:10:00 GMT

http://media.putfile.com/Microsoft-Rebrands-iPod-Packaging

ahhh well nothing like poking a bit of fun at yourself and a fun way to start the week:-)

Cheers Dave

Thanks Davidgri!!

THE COMPUTER'S SWALLOWED GRANDMA!!

dglover — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:59:00 GMT

Lol, well it's computer related (just) and yeah somewhere between cute and twee, but may be it'll make ya smile - the author is anonymous, unless anyone would like to own up to it!! :-)

The computer's swallowed grandma
Yes' honestly' its true
She pressed 'control' and 'enter'
And disappeared from view.
Its devoured her completely
The thought just makes me squirm
Maybe she's caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I've searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind
I've even used the internet
But nothing did I find.
In desperation I asked Jeeves
My searches to refine
The reply from him was negative
Not a thing was found 'online'.
So, if inside your 'In Box'
My Grandma you should see
Please 'Scan', 'Copy' and 'Paste' her
In an e-mail back to me

A bit of humour for the day. All the Smartphone stuff is making my head hurt:-)

dglover — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:24:00 GMT

Ahh, enough Windows Mobile V5.0 Smartphone stuff for the day - this found it's way in to my inbox, probably not too politically correct but a wee bit of fun that is doing the rounds at the moment!! Oh and the Hoff piccie of the day:-)

YOUR JOB IS SAFE AS LONG AS THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE......

ONE.
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?"
"That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

TWO.
I was checking out at the local Kmart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider," looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said, "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE.
A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

FOUR.
Several years ago, we had a junior who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of Typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the Junior took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank"
copies.

FIVE.
Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

Life is tough.

It's tougher if you're stupid:-)

What Sex is your Computer? Fun/Silly:-)

dglover — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:22:00 GMT

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that, in Spanish unlike in English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House, for instance, is feminine: la casa. Pencil, however, is masculine: el lapiz.' A student asked, 'What gender is computer?'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked each of them to decide for themselves whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give 4 reasons for a recommendation.

The men's group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine gender (la computer) because:

No one but their Creator understands their logic.
The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval.
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(No chuckling. This gets better.)

The women's group concluded that computers should be masculine (el computer) because:

In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a better model.

The women won. :-)

Escape From Yesterworld - Fun/Silly

dglover — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:39:00 GMT

Ok, this is silly, but if it's cold and damp where you are and you are feeling a little under the weather then it'll put a smile on ya dial:-)

http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/

A bit of fun if you are a John Cleese fan and have ever lost data (Yup, an unlikely combination:-))

dglover — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:46:00 GMT

Henry from the "Melbourne Small Business Server User Group" in Melbourne sent through a fun link to a John Cleese skit on Data backup, it's fun so if you've got 5 minutes and feel like a distraction then check out http://www.backuptrauma.com/video/default2.aspx.

Go on press the 3rd button:-)

Now as coincidence would have it, we (Microsoft) have recently announced "Data Protection Server", a backup to disk solution:-)