Enkidu.cx

So I was on youtube last night, skipping through some random tunes as I do, and I came across a Katy Perry song, californian girls.  I'm not a huge fan of hers, but the song was ok, the video looked really nice and she was cute as always.  I made the mistake I always make of surfing some comments as I was watching, and I was as usual greeted by the usual fangirls, the haters and what I now think is the stupidest group of them all, the musical snobs.  People who genuinely post just to say that the singer/artist is not a very good singer, and there are far better singers elsewhere and therefore you shouldn't listen to them. I tended to agree with the comments, they are on the whole correct, most famous artists cannot sing very well.  But is that really the point?  If you actually think about it for a minute, how many of the most famous acts in history were lead by a really great singer?  There are not very many.  And for every example of a quality sing... [More]

Tags: music, singing, talent, katy perry

Having a hundred passwords in various places can tax anyone, and having ultra secure passwords is especially difficult.  So I use a method an old sysadmin taught me when I was about 18, and it enables me to use 10 character passwords with all the right combination of character types in them.  They will register as very strong on any test. Here's an example I just made up; 14 monkeys at Blackpool zoo looking up at the stars We take the numbers and first letter of each word to form the password, and convert anything sounding like a special character.  In this example we will convert "at" to @ and "stars" to **(StarS being multiples).  So the password will be; 14m@Bzlu@t** You can even leave yourself a reminder on paper, if you just write down the start of the phrase it will jog your memory.  An even better way is to choose a phrase that means something to you, which I wont do here for obvious reasons.  A couple more examples; The 23rd earl of Salisbury... [More]

Tags: passwords, strong, complex, special characters

I happen to have the fortunate distinction to count amongst my friends a number of, for want of a better word, hippies.  They're great, kind, warm and lovely people on the whole and I love them all.  But there is a problem.  An attitude that exists among certain members of our society, and one that has received mainstream attention of late.  I speak of course of the Iluminati, freemasons, international capitalists or just good old fashioned Big Brother. At some point in the past, presumably when I was not looking, people actually started to believe these things existed.  The belief that the same bumbling, brainless organisations that cannot perform the simplest of tasks without messing it up in some glorious way, could also be so intelligent and organised as to entrance the population of the world into ignoring their "obvious" control over us all.  But as ridiculous as this theory is, that's not really what I wanted to talk about. When did the happy, ope... [More]

Tags: Cheer up, miserable, hippies, conspiracy

Another piece of genius, this time in the form of cow(s).

Tags: cows, wtf

How could I not comment on this?  Seriously, sometimes I like memes, some I love.  But this is the king/emperor of all memes, and it was made for a marketing campaign! The humor is very British(Sorry America, you are funny also), and the delivery is perfect. The youtube account The make your own voicemail I salute you advertising people, you have made the world a better place.

Tags: old spice

I know, I've amazed even myself.  5 years I've been working on the new enkidu.cx site and so far all I have to show for it is 10 different half finished websites, all absolute rubbish.  I've no idea why anyone would even be reading this, but I'm mostly going to use this site for storing random crap I make or find amusing.  The odd bit of programming might show up, some game stuff and all sorts of random game related nerdery(I'm making that a word, as of now).

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