Recently I spotted this in the toilets...

Does anyone else see something wrong with the wording?

*Can* kill *99.9%* of *most* germs that *may* cause illness. Doesn't sound *that* reliable, does it? Oh well, it smells of Vodka, good for getting in the mood on Friday

Apologies for the poor photo quality, there is only so long I am prepared to stand in the toilets with a camera.

A long time ago I stopped using play.com because it began taking a week or more for deliveries. Originally it took a day. The stuff only had to travel from Jersey to Guernsey. It takes amazon.co.uk and most other services a day or two for delivery.

I decided to give them another shot and ordered some Sennheiser CX 500 earphones and some cables to connect my PC and HDTV on Tuesday. The next day I receive three emails a few seconds apart telling me they'd been individually dispatched. I didn't receive an email for one component, which play.com listed as in stock. Looking at it now:- its no longer in stock, for say by play.com (originally was, now only playtrade) and has increased in price by £10. Okay...

On Friday I get home to find three ridiculously sized boxes. Each box could easily fit five more of the product it was carrying inside. Every single box had it's own invoice. What the fuck? What a complete waste of boxing and paper as well as the postal services time. If other online shops can manage to box an order up together, play.com has no valid excuse.

I was also disappointed to see the limited manufacturer options I had for these cables (not counting playtrade, as I'd rather avoid the third party stuff). I noticed that they had no problem stocking Monsters rip-off cables, though.

Oh well, at least the delivery time is more resonable again!

My iPod earphones have been sellotaped together for a good few months now (hey, I stood on 'em). On Tuesday I ordered some Sennheiser CX 500's to replace them. On Thursday, I accidentally stood on the iPod earphones and did this:-

Good timing if I don't say so myself. The Sennheiser's haven't arrived yet, but I've found some Sony earphones that cost me around £10 about five years ago! The odd thing is they sound *much* better than the Apple earphones and are a damn sight more comfortable.

Last year I was working away in Windows XP when explorer randomly locked up. After I while i received this error:-

The error is documented on Microsoft's website, here.

It was a bit of a WTF? moment...

I've recently been looking at multi threading and bumped into this. Microsoft's example of threading involves creating a progress bar that randomly increments or decrements every one hundred milliseconds.