What's the time Mr Nerd

If you're gonna dress like a nerd, talk like a nerd, walk like the nerd, you're probably gonna want to tell the time like nerd. With this watch you'll be nerd envy of all your nerd friends.

Dress like a nerd

If you're gonna look like a nerd, for goodness sake, at leastdress like one. I hate a nerd that doesn't dress the part. And if you're a fat nerd, don't think you aren't cateredf or

Protecting Your Valuable Data

Need to store some credit card details on your machine? Maybe your bank password? You cant go past this article for a thorough summary of cryptography in .NET.

Digital Photo Frames

Ever wanted to make a digital photo frame? Well, this article isn't the be all and end all, but its certainly an interesting approach to sharing photos among your friends and family.

You want Datagrid... you got datagrid

This has to be one of, if not the most comprehensive article i've seen dedicated to the datagrid. It would have been the most comprehensive article on any topic ever but the rat vomit essay takes that crown

Fun With Microwaves

Hands up anyone who has never put something silly in the microwave? I know I've sure has some fun with mine! Well, I think perhaps these people have a little too much fun with their microwave, but it sure makes for entertaining reading. Check it out here. I recommend you use your neighbours microwave for these experiements...

You have Gmail

I Got me a Gmail account today. Can't say how good it is yet, but i do know i like the idea of a GIG of storage. Can't complain about that. It could act as an offsite backup sort-of. I'll keep you posted on how it turns out, but so far no complaints

How Hypnotic

All Glory To the Hypnotoad!

Grand Theft Auto

After 5 years on the easy coast...its time to come home baby. The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is getting released tomorrow, and if you don't own a PS2, then you need to buy one, and now. This game is sensational, as well all knew it would be. I'd tell you more, but I'm having cravings for the game already and I've only stopped playing for 10 minutes. Go buy it now!

Now Thats Crazy

I've got to say, this is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time. It aint for the kiddies though, there's a little bit of colourful language.

Why rat poison is so effective

This essay is dedicated to why rats can't vomit. Its quite interesting, and at the end of the day makes me feel better knowing that when i shove rat poison down a rats throat, it's all one way traffic.

Square Melons

Square Watermelons are all the rage in Japan as fridge space is becoming increasingly hard to find. Don't worry about the fridge tho because you'll have plenty of space in your wallet after forking out up to $82 a melon for one of these square beauties

Cool Cubes

Have you ever tried to solve a Rubik's Cube? And got annoyed 5 minutes later because clearly you don't have the mental capacity to solve it? And then given up 10 minutes later, because your random moves weren't getting you anywhere? Well, I know I have. But now I can turn my life around and show everyone how smart I really am!

Introducing....The Cubesolver!

Once you boost your skills, why not try a little bit of Speed Cubing

The Flying Lawnmower

Having troubles cutting that 100 foot high grass? Bored of your remote control plane? Maybe you want to give your neighbour a fancy haircut? Well then, have we got the thing for you:

Sky Cutter 40 V2

For those too lazy to read the site (like me), take a look at this video instead.

Those Strange Singaporeans

Well, well, Singapore is an interesting country, with some equally interesting customs. How about a $10,000 fine for importing 5 or more packets of chewing gum? Or what about the ban on picking flowers, or dancing in public places? And dont forget the restaurants that sell "meat" dishes. Not beef, not chicken...just "meat". Funny how there is a rather large amount of cats patrolling the streets in Singapore, of which a large proportion are missing tails.

But! I digress. You like water? It's good on a hot day right, cools you down, nice and refreshing? Well how about some water with a little extra kick, a little bit of zing? Check this out

What can I say....

This was found on a member site of aspxconnection.com . I've been surfing the net for quite a few years and i've seen stuff from bumfights to adult flash games, but this takes the cake. What would possess someone to make a keychain out of a kangaroo scrotum is beyond me. What would possess someone to then sell a kangaroo scrotum keychain is nothing short of unbelievable.
The site also has a kangaroo scrotum purse

Paintball done right

Anyone out there play paintball? Well then check this baby out:



Here's some choice quotes:
"You Can Mount It on A Jeep Or Carry it around Like Arnie"
"It is capable of 48 balls Per Second Per Barrel"
"Waying in at 75 Kg Un Armed and works from A Compressed Air Tank Built Within The Back Pack, The ML9 will hold Around 4000, 0.68 cal Paintballs in its 52 hopper feed lines."

Here's the original link

Multiline Tabs in VS2003

When programming in VS2003, if you want to insert a TAB at the beginning of a number of lines of code, select all the lines that you want the tab to occur on, and press TAB. All the lines will then conviniently have a tab inserted at the start of each line.

Help me get EmailCash and i'll buy u a donut

If you click the link on the right and I you turn out to be a successful emailcash referral I’ll buy you a donut, no questions asked, no strings attatched other than the emailcash ones.

Why IE can't be replaced by 3rd party browsers just yet

This article on slashdot highlights one of my biggest gripes with the contenders for best Browser. No matter what your non-IE flavour, be it opera, firefox or some homebrew creation you came up with yourself, none of them have the robust page handling that IE has. Sure they have bells and whistles up the wazoo, but what use is Mozilla to an asp.net developer who can't display a page let alone debug it, and not to mention opera's shananigans when you try and do client side error validation. All in all, these browsers are nice in their own way, i've tried most of them and i have to say they have features that you yearn for in IE, but at the end of the day, they aren't a true 100% IE replacement. Perhaps a thought for these developers should be that no matter how many features, plugins and ding-a-lings u cram into ur browser, if it can't display a web page, its useless as a browser.

Theres no news like Sharp News

If you like your news and you like it coming in from a variety of sources but hate checking multitudes of websites when you log on each morning, you would probably have heard of RSS Feeds. In short they’re excellent. If you want a slightly more detailed explanation you can go here.

Anyway a great tool for getting all your daily feeds is SharpReader.

It does have one drawback in that you will need to have the .net framework installed, but if you’re up with your Microsoft updates which you all should be this is a very small drawback, but aside from that it’s a small, simple easy to use tool that does what its supposed to and nothing more.

To start you off, here's a high quality listing of informative nerd news.

What to buy if you got too much cash...

Whether you got cash to splash or you just like being referred to as “The geek in cubicle D” head over to www.ThinkGeek.com and get your hands on their high quality, if not socially unacceptable merchandise

Get Sliding With Slide Menu

Slidemenu is an awesome ASP.NET control that lets you make funky looking menu's that are easy to control and even easier to make. Best of all the price is right as its a free download. Get in on the slidemenu action here

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They Stop You

This is a top article on how to minimise attacks on your website from losers that think its "1337" to try and break ur stuff. Its got some good encryption code samples and a real easy to follow tutorial to set up a real secure login.
Click here

DateTime in SQL Server

Info on the standards to use for DateTime's in SQL Server
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And here's some info on formatting dates that I find useful:
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