I have recently been hit by the PC upgrade bug and have spent many an hour surfing the web hunting for a new kickass system.

Being a hardware geek enthusiast from wayback, I thought that rather than paying an extra couple hundred dollars for a non-upgradable machine filled with mutated expansion slots, I would source some parts and assemble a system myself.

After compiling a few combinations, I decided to have a look on the net to see if I could find a site that could give my system a rating based on specs.

So I merrily went to Google to hunt for such a site.  Anywayz, I went to google and entered the search string: 

Now we all know that Google it great for lazy rascals such as myself who don’t bother to spell things correctly and it often comes up with a “Did you mean……?” and a suggestion just in case you mispelled you query. 

In this case, the answer was not quite what I expected.. See for yourself

Ha HA!! 

Fantastic Spoof of Telecom NZ Ad!!

Brilliant!

Admitedly I have also been an avid supporter of AMD over Intel, in my experience they have often offered more bang for your buck in relation to speed and overclockability (Also, as a student, affordability was a huge drawcard).  But the video below may have swayed me just slightly.

One of the most annoying things that I have encountered in my centuries of office work is that often the I.T. guys will use some hack method of blocking out websites.

The worst one I’ve encountered was where, in order to prevent staff from commiting the cardinal sin of checking their webmail while at work, all websites with ‘mail’ in the URL were blocked by the WebMarshal.  Well that’s all well and good for blocking out webmail sites, but little old me was wanting some information about an address and postcode in the UK, and as it turns our, their version of NZPost.co.nz is in fact www.royalmail.co.uk. 

But Alas, I was restricted to wading through screeds and screeds of meaningless mumbo jumbo in a myriad of tourism sites in order to get to the information I need.

This in fact resulted in me spending more time and using more bandwidth than if I had been able to go the the site that I wanted to go to in the first place!!

 Go Figure !!

Well stress no more as an interesting little “tool” has been found with our friends at Google !!

If you’re tired of searching for anonymous proxy servers well try this:

Using the Google translation tool, you can copy the url and then enter the website that you wish to go to. 

e.g. http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=sashots.wordpress.com

Simply replace the sashots.wordpress.com part with the webiste you want to go to and viola! you’re there

This simply uses the google translation tool to “translate” from english to english, but it goes through the google server so your firewall recognises it as google.

A bit fiddly but definitely very cool

Until next time……