Technorati ranking

I registered speedcuber.blogspot.com with Technorati today. My Technorati ranking is 344,263. Didn't seem too impressive until I saw that Technorati tracks 28,900,000 blogs. This means my blog is in the top 1.19%!

I was curious to see what were the top Technorati ranked blogs. BoingBoing was no.1. This wasn't a huge surprise, I would have expected to see them in the top lot. A few surprises were Cute Overload at no.49 and Stuff on my cat at no.65. I'm a fan of both of these sites (and subscribe to their RSS feeds), but I hadn't realised that so many others were too!

Astronomy picture of the day

As the name suggests, the astronomy picture of the day website shows a new pic each day of something cool and interesting the in the universe. Pretty cool.

Animals on the Underground

Here's something else I found when looking at interesting things to do with the London Underground map: Animals on the Underground.

Apparently if you stare at the tube map for long enough you'll start to see animals in the outline of the tube lines. I think this is like when you stare at stars or clouds for long enough you start to see other things too.

According to the site the animals currently hiding in the tube map include the following: bat, bald eagle, bird, bird in flight, bottlenose whale, cat, cockerel, dog, elephant, emu, fish, flamingo, hen, hound, lazy cat, penguin, pig, baby rhino, sperm whale, seal, stag, snail, turtle, whale, wombat and wallaby.

Interesting things to do with the London tube map

Check out these clever 'variations' of the inconic London Underground map (discovered via BoingBoing):

• What if London Underground stations were sponsored? My favourites are Marks & Spencery Lane (because I love Marks & Spencer) and WimbleDonkey Kong (because it's hiliarious).

• London tube map re-labelled with anagrams This is quite imaginative. Someone has gone through the entire map and created anagrams of every station! I like Burn If Sparky (Finsbury Park), A Monster (Stanmore), Dragonfly & Falcon Hire (Finchley Road & Frognal), Add Romance (Camden Road) and Ogre Awarded (Edgware Road).

• Musical influences mashed up with London Underground map Charting the history of modern music through the medium of the London Underground map.

Kitty cat wedding cake topper

Everyone who knows me knows I love kitties! This means that my friends often send me links to kitty sites and kitty pictures. :)

Paul sent me this link to a place that makes wedding cake toppers, including a little kitty bride and groom. Cute!

Third hard reset on my hx4705

My iPAQ had been running very smoothly for the past two days since I rebuilt it. Cool. But then something terrible happened this afternoon - it froze and it wouldn't wake up. Very not cool. :(

Sometimes PDAs freeze and a simple soft reset solves the problem. Easy. But this time a soft reset (quite a lot of them!) did nothing! Very distressing. So, I figured that I was going to have to hard reset again. :(

When I've hard reset in the past I've always done it through Tweaks2k2. I've never actually done it the 'old fashioned way', and so didn't know how. I had a quick look around for the manual, but couldn't find it, so jumped online. Fortunately I found the hx4705 documentation, including the How do I...? booklet and the User Guide pretty quickly.

Now I'm reinstalling stuff. Not too much fun, but if it was going to happen then now is better than later since I hadn't finished re-installing from the last re-build anyway. *sigh*

Things you didn't know about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris

A friend who loves badgers told me about two websites: Chuck Norris facts and Arnold Schwarzenegger facts. These sites are weird and very funny.

Nano iKitty

Marissa sent me a link to the coolest nano accessory ever, the Nano iKitty! I don't have an iPod, but this is almost reason enough to buy one! Miaow!!

Nano iKitty from ThinkGeek

More wedding photos

I've added a few more photos to our wedding photo page. The new ones I've added were taken the day before at one of Hawaii's many beaches. Gotta have beach photos if you get married in Hawaii!