The problem with the MotoGP pit girls

Have you ever tried to ride a motorbike in leathers with a boner?

10 Ways to be more green

There’s really no excuse to be wasting energy nowadays. Microsoft, of all people, have a quick and handy guide to things you can do to reduce your company’s carbon footprint and electric bill at the same time. Go to it.

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The Seven Stages of Dog

The long awaited, much anticipated film is now on general release. After a good reception at the Stamford Film Festival, where the critics are known to be some of the sternest and harshet in the business, I’m pleased to present: The Seven Stages of Dog.

Part 1

Part 2

Outtakes

Some special features are only available on the limited edition 7 Stages official DVD.

The Legend of Vino DiGiovanni

Challenge: find something cooler than this

If you can find something more awesome than this (and I’m not talking about some sort of two girls one cup thing), then kindly let me know.

Mr Bean to take charge of Bank of England

I have juvenile sense of humour, it’s true, but this story on the BBC tickled me:

The surprise announcement is expected to be made officially on Thursday. The Bank’s chief economist Charles Bean is expected to be named a deputy governor.

Mr Bean will take charge of the Bank’s monetary policy side, replacing the other deputy governor, Rachel Lomax.

I wonder if the author of this story purposely left the reference to Mr Bean in, to give people like me a bit of a chuckle.

Leopard, iTunes & Airport Express: An unknown error occurred (-3256)

You may find you get the following problem when trying to stream music to multiple speakers. Streaming to either local computer OR your airport express works, but when you try to stream both, you get an error message that looks like this:

“An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker ’speaker_name’. An unknown error occurred (-3256).”

This is most likely caused by a firewall issue. If you’re running Tiger, then there’s a fix here. If, however, you’re running Leopard, then it’s a little different:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click Security
3. Click Firewall
4. Either:
a. “Allow all incoming connections” - but I don’t recommend this, so
b. “Set access for specific services and applications”. Click the + symbol, then find iTunes in your Applications folder. Then set its permission to Allow incoming connections.

You should now be able to stream to multiple sets of speakers. Whilst you’re playing about in the firewall settings, click Advanced and enable the stealth mode, which seems to be off by default. You should also check that logging is enabled, as it’s possible that the change to your firewall settings will interfere with other applications you have installed.