This sign in my hotel room intrigued me. Every time I entered the bathroom, I gazed at the sign. I found myself entering the bathroom to study the sign when I didn’t actually need to use the bathroom. Was the pipe hot or not ? Unfortunately, this towel rail wasn’t listed anywhere on this site. Could the temperature really be as high as 140’ F ? How hot is 140’ F ? Finally, just before I checked out, I gave in to temptation, removed the towels and grabbed the silver rail with my right hand. ...

Thank you for your email. I am currently working in a bunker deep underground in the heart of Brussels (near Belgium). I would normally say ‘Please call me directly on my mobile’. However, this secure facility is so secure that no mobile communications are possible. I would normally pledge to replying to your email on my return. However, I am not quite sure precisely when (or even indeed, if) I ever will return. While I am not literally chained to the desk, the security officer is holding my passport which fills me with a sense of unease and practically equates to the same thing. ...

From a posting in the Google Reader newsgroup I have (approx) 383,240 feeds…

This post put me in a quandry. I found the video very amusing so I was torn between leaving a grateful comment on Donncha’s blog and awarding the article a (Gold) ‘Star’ in Google Reader. But if I only did that, my friend and a couple of (ex-) colleagues who might appreciate the joke may miss it. That would be very selfish. Forgive me Father, but briefly, I toyed with reverting to Web 0.1 (beta) and sending an mass email to ‘Friends/Ex Colleagues’. ...

Throw away that Mavis Beacon touch typing CD. This hilarious video shows that speech recognition is the key to (not so) rapid application development. Reminds me of working in tech support and the torture of spelling out Unix commands over the phone to customers.