Due to a total cock-up on the theme for this blog, I have had to revert it back to the original Beeblebrox one.
Will have my changes back in place sometime tomorrow, hopefully!
Month: December 2005
Links 21/12/05
- Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page
- Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add your categories and post.”
- Internet cafe bans baseball caps
- Meebo: Instant Messenging through a browser. Cool.
Japan ‘groper’ dies after beating
A Japanese man has died after being tackled by fellow train passengers who believed he had molested a woman during the morning rush hour.
The man fled the train at a station in the city of Osaka after a 20-year-old student accused him of groping her.The 40-year-old was brought to the ground by four male passengers, who included at least one off-duty police officer. He died later in hospital.
Women-only carriages run on some trains in Japan because of groping complaints.
The college student accused the man of groping her on Tuesday, shortly after the train they were travelling in stopped at JR Tennoji Station in Osaka, Mainichi newspaper reported.
He ran away but was chased by four other passengers, who tackled him on the platform. “We are looking into the cause of death and details about how he was overpowered by the passengers,” a police spokesman told the French news agency AFP.
Despite the introduction of penalties and women-only carriages, Tokyo police reported more than 2,000 groping incidents on the city’s trains last year.
Delightful!
WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate
Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog:
The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate. If all goes well, the Release Candidate will become 2.0 final. We’re almost there. Download, test, and head over to the Beta Forum to let us know if the Release Candidate is ready for prime time.
I installed it as a new blog just to have a look around, and it is pretty good. The main change really is a nice wysiwyg editor for posting:
I’ll certainly be upgrading as soon as the final version is released!
MyHeritage.com
My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells you which celebrity you look like. Great!
Sadly, the only photos of me I had to hand weren’t very clear, so it couldn’t give them a proper going-over. The only one I could find was a rather grubby effort from a mobile phone. Anyway, the results were shocking.
1. Sania Mirza (65% similarity to me) – a woman at #1! Bloody hell. And I have never heard of her. Turns out she is an Indian tennis player.
2. Peter Sellers (62%)
3. Kevin Mitnick (52%) – who? Some sort of internet security geek apparently.
4. John Cusack (47%)
5. Tom Hanks (45%)
More fun on this subject over on Palimpsest.