Halloween - yum

I was listening to the radio on the way in to work today and they were discussing trick or treater’s. The DJ complained that if you're too generous then word soon spreads through the trick or treating underground of rich pickings to be had at your house and you end up with all the kids within a 5 mile radius at your door.
One caller had the solution, she always gives out Brussel sprouts covered in chocolate or 'candy cabbages' as she calls them.
Oh to see the look on the kids faces when they ate them - hehe.

Boost your brain power

I've often wondered if sounds at different frequencies and different lights / images could be used to stimulate the brain into different states, ideally to do useful things like increase intelligence; kind of like the lawnmower man but without becoming a psychotic nutter. :)
A company named "Volition Thought House" have developed a series of music CD's which are designed specifically for this purpose, they sound just like normal music CD's but have hidden frequencies which stimulate the brain.
Research seems quite positive so far and the pictures are pretty cool too.

At just under 90 dollars it's not cheap and I don't normally believe the hype on these kind of things but they have some pretty big hitters supporting them so who knows..

Make your own mind up here

Caption Competition

Captions Please...

Google add URL Word of the day

OK, since you struggled with the last one, here's an easier one - definitions please.

Rainbows and Toast

Every rainbow is unique - each rainbow is formed from light hitting your eye at a very precise angle. Someone standing next to you will see light coming from a slightly different angle than you and therefore see a different rainbow.

But much more importantly, a bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread. Unfortunately the bolt only takes 1/10,000 of a second – so turning the bread over might prove difficult.

http://www.einsteinyear.org/facts/physicsFacts

Apple iPod nano

Comes with free laser engraving - no thanks, I'll just scratch it myself.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000080064508/

Google add URL Word of the day

Post your thoughts on what this could mean in the comments section. No rude ones please :)

Skoda Drivers

Why do Skoda drivers try so hard to show their cars aren't complete rubbish?, such a huge chip on their shoulders makes them thrash the lives out of the poor little things in an attempt to justify their choice.
Is anyone fooled? - nope - it's a Skoda, either take the abuse or get a real car.
The poor little fella I was following to work this morning was in a 1 year old skoda with lots of nice smoke coming out the exhaust when he changed gear - what do you expect? - they're only designed to last a couple of years.
If you wear an anorak and have no friends then feel free to buy a Skoda but don't drive like a nutter to try to prove that Skodas have improved! - noone cares.

Who links to me

No-one - woohoo !

Click the link below to see a full report :)
Who Links Here

My mission this year is to boost that all the way up to one. Link to me and I'll be your friend forever - honest. I'll even link back if you don't mind the sudden jump in traffic you'd get, I don't want you to run out of bandwidth.

How to increase traffic to your website

I was searching on google for this and came up with thousands of sites selling search engine submission tools etc, but none simply stating that putting interesting and useful information might help.
Of course that rules this site out for most sane people but that's not the point !.

Global Warming

A lot of people assume that global warming is simply a matter of the average temperature increasing everywhere, but it's the changes that this causes that have more of an impact. Most Americans are now only to aware of the impact of global warming with all the recent flooding and amplified hurricane activity.
However, I'm hoping that when we run out of oil in 50 years or so the earth will settle back down again - it may get a bit scary for a while but the earth does seem to have an uncanny knack of regaining equilibrium.
Almost all modern diesels can run quite happily on 100% bio-diesel so there's no problem with running out of oil - maybe that means that farmers with plenty of land for growing crops for fuel will be come the next generation of billionaires just like the rich land owners in Saudi did as a result of oil.

RFID scanning in supermarkets

Hopefully someone can clear this up for me; at a supermarket checkout with barcodes it's easy to ensure you only scan things once but with RFID it detects tags within a field of space so what's to stop it scanning things twice?, or accidentally scanning the tin of carrots the old lady behind you has in her basket?.
Radio waves are very difficult to control so I don't see how you can be sure they're limited correctly, if a pringles tin can be used to create a long distance wifi antenna then who's to say that in the right circumstances it wont extend the range of your checkouts scanning signal?.
I don't see what's wrong with barcodes in that situation that creates the need for RFID, if you need to store more info in the barcode then just use a datamatrix - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamatrix

Ranked number 30 !!

Yay - this blog's only been alive less than half a day and already Alexa is ranking it at number 30. I don't know what all the fuss is about trying to get people to visit your site - it's easy!.

It must be my highly intuitive comments that are driving millions to this site.. or maybe it's a bug at Alexa.
hmmmmm
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=floodle.blogspot.com

Curiosity

Out of pure curiosity I'm interested in how much of this google caches, so I needed a word or phrase that was unique in a google search.
Easier said than done - I won't list all the rubbish I tried but it's kinda scary what was there.
Anyway - one thing that wasn't there is floodlefloodle
the question remains if it ever will be ...

Animated adverts

I hate animated adverts, there I am reading something on a web page and ther's this stupid flashing box telling me I've won something; how annoying.

So I've taken the plunge and deleted flash from my PC and disabled web page animations - flash is good but abused by idiots.

This is why google adverts are much better, they're just text and I don't mind clicking them - I will never click an animated advert simply out of principle.

The uncertain world

Search google for the word definitely and you get 92,800,000 hits, search for probably and you get 307,000,000, over 3 times as many.
I wonder why that is; are people just not sure about things? or are they just non-committal.
My theory is that it's the nature of the web, people like to disagree and have their voice heard so if you say something that isn't 100 % correct then people love to correct you. So saying probably gives you a way out.

I would just like to say that my theory is definitely right.

Million Dollar Homepage

Well, when I first saw this I never thought it would amount to much
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
Boy was I wrong - I still think it's a bit daft and that advertisers aren't going to get their moneys worth but hey - I've been wrong before (so many times...).
At the time of writing this the guy's sold nearly half the page, so he's made nearly half a million dollars for pretty much doing nothing. Originally set up to pay for his college education, if he makes it to a million I'd say forget college, if you can think of ways to make a million in a couple of months then why work for it?.
I'd rather be a multi millionaire with no education than have a degree and be hugely in debt paying mortgages etc.
I am sooo jealous.

Conclusion

I've already come to the conclusion that I (probably) have nothing interesting or unique to add to the internet - sad huh.

One thing I would like to add is that the word probably should be replaced with the word prolly - since that letter combination is available for use and is much easier to say and write I see no reason why not.
:)

The Beginning

Well it's time for me to have a blog, everyone else has one so why shouldn't I? - so there !. And it's free. And I know you shouldn't start sentences with 'and'. or or.

Maybe one day I'll have something interesting to write and then it'll all be worth it; until then I'll just ramble and mis-spell to my hearts content.