20090323 Don’t
Will you resist?
Posts Tagged ‘funny’
20090310 Easyjet: the most senior friendly airline ever!
I was booking some flights when I was faced with this drop down list for selecting the date of issue of the passport:
I wonder how a passport issued in 1850 will look like. I think it won’t be possible to read it in nowadays electronic readers. It will need manual inspection (carefully, so that it doesn’t break apart). But most importantly, the real question is: how old is a person whose passport was issued in 1850? Assuming he/she was 18 years then, that person would be 177 years old today!
That definitely makes easyjet a very senior friendly airline. Maybe they are catering for Benjamin Button style clientèle… in which case I also wonder if they would be allowed to pay the price of infant seats instead of full adult seats, even if the passengers are more than one hundred years old.
Ahhh web forms fun! You can’t have enough of it!
20090211 Stack overbooooom
This could be one of the reasons why I prefer to install a completely new version of Eclipse rather than updating its existing features – and probably why I haven’t done so since I set up Eclipse in this computer ;-)
For the record, this happened when I clicked “Select required” while having PDT SDK 1.0.5. highlighted.
Let’s see what happens when the next release of Eclipse comes out…
20090123 Open interval version number
Now this is something funny! I wanted to check the version of GD in my development machine. As I was right in the middle of php coding, I just did a quick print_r(gd_info()). And what did I get?
Array
(
[GD Version] => 2.0 or higher
[FreeType Support] => 1
[FreeType Linkage] => with freetype
[T1Lib Support] => 1
[GIF Read Support] => 1
[GIF Create Support] => 1
[JPG Support] => 1
[PNG Support] => 1
[WBMP Support] => 1
[XPM Support] =>
[XBM Support] =>
[JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support] =>
)hmmm yeah, 2.0 or higher, very useful information! Specially considering it’s been in 2.x for years now!
Had to go to Synaptic to exactly determine which version is installed. But I wonder if there’s another way of finding out the version without having access to the system’s package manager, for example when one is in a shared host and all that?
If anybody knows, please post a comment :-)
20090113 How to recruit curious people, the automattic way
I was doing some feeds processing and needed to check their HTTP headers. Oh the surprise when I saw this line among the headers returned by blogs from wordpress.com:
X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
They aren’t the first ones to find prospective employees this way (Google did something similar years ago, posting some kind of secret message in billboards, I think), but it’s funny nevertheless.
And who doesn’t secretly aspire to be a hacker? ;-)
