Archive for November, 2007

PC 97/99 PC port colours

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I always forget which audio port is which on the back of my PC. Then because I’m inquisitve / too lazy and stupid to get a torch to look at the labelling next to the ports, or just randomly try them, I always google for an answer. This normally takes me about 5 minutes if I don’ get sidetracked (like now). The answer which I am looking for, that is suprisingly hard to find, is the PC 99 colour code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_99

light blue = line in
lime green = line out
pink = mic

Conditions of Web Site Use, Copyright & Disclaimer

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I don’t know much about legal documents, but for the most part website disclaimers seem to be about trying to lessen the risk of being sued in this dog-eat-dog compensation culture. They also ‘make your website look well professional, innit?’

Anyway I was looking into some of these docs online and stumbled across this.

The last sentence in the last paragraph says ‘For the avoidance of doubt, Amazon.co.uk does not limit its liability for death or personal injury to the extent only that it arises as a result of the negligence of NLITEC, its affiliates, directors, employees or other representatives.’

Whoops, Friday afternoon find and replace error!

pampers, the generous so-and-sos

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Was thinking about the new tugging at the heart strings pampers advert where soft music plays and they say that they’ll pay to vaccine one child in the third world against tetanus. It looks like pampers have to disclose how much money goes to charity, and toward the end of the advert the small print says that 2.5p per pack goes to charity. Say an average pack of pampers costs £5, this means they donate 0.5% of the cost of a pack to charity.

The Facts
Buy a 26 pack of Pampers Active fit Maxis at Asda for £5 and give one child a tetanus vaccine
OR

Buy 26 of Asda’s own brand equivalent Little Angels Action fit Maxi for £3.97, leaving you with £1.03 change from £5. Give the £1.03 to charity, which would give 41 children tetanus vaccines

Donate to Unicef here