Will’s Web Miscellany

Have your IP address ‘moaned’ to you at moanmyip.com, a useful diagnostic tool. Possibly NSFW.

Here’s willj.net/blog as a graph:

Very pretty. Get yours here. Other peoples on Flickr here.

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has posted some of the wireless network names his iPhone picked up recently, here are a selection:

• McJesus
• TuckerPoo
• breasts

I particularly like breasts… Anyway, this started us talking in the 29degrees office about our wireless network and computer names. At the risk of starting a meme, here are mine:

Wireless network name: foo

Computer names:

• Laptop (PowerBook): marmot
• Linux machines: Patrician and Plebian

I am interested in Tony, Carl, Dean, Stig and Paul’s nerdy naming conventions. Let’s see how far this can go ;)

Ubisoft has pulled MindQuiz for its use of an “offending word” to people with disabilities.

Calling one of the ability levels ‘Super Spastic‘ is somewhat unfortunate.

(via JoyStiq)

This dialog came from Aegisub, an application for subtitling video:

Someone needs to add this massively useful warning to every piece of presentation software ever made.

Found at Global Nerdy.

This is great, I really want to make one of these myself now.

Full screen text editing, an interesting idea in WriteRoom:

If I did much writing (other than code) I think this would be really useful.

Hilarious:

It’s usually cheaper to send it to yourself via Citylink for destruction, and then again via Parcelforce for disposal.

Peter Corlett in London.pm, via Stig.

Carl has written a google gears demo, the ‘Disk-space Reserver‘. As all this does is use up all your disk-space it would probably be a better idea just to read about it on his blog.

Microsoft Surface, very very cool.