Busy....

Future Plans
I will be moving house on August 25th. Because of this there may not be any updates whatsoever around this period of time. On the plus side, the old family computer is to be decommisioned. This gives me the oppertunity to turn it into my own web server! And this means a Robomilk with near unlimited space and bandwidth! Look out for Robomilk - the website. Coming later this year!

Links
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Newsday

Visitor Notice
This will be my last post for a few days. Unless something big happens that needs commenting on.

What's So Great About G8?
The G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, is somewhat disturbing. First Prezza. George W. starts getting down with the homeboys with Blair. Then gives German Chancellor Angela Merkel an obviously unwanted neck massage. It's bloody obvisou what's happened. George W. Bush has gone insane. It makes perfect sense! Why would he greet Tony Blair with a swish "Yo Blair!" before saying:

"You see the irony is what they need to do is get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's all over..."

Does he really think making a country that is not yet involved, get involved and that's it! It takes more than that matey. Why don't you just invade Lebanon yourself, kill a few hundred more innocent people and call it a success.... again!

Meanwhile we've been seeing Tony's soft side.

Bush: Tell her to put him on, them on the spot. Thanks for the sweater - it's awfully thoughtful of you.

Blair: It's a pleasure.

Bush: I know you picked it out yourself.

Blair: Oh absolutely - in fact I knitted it!!!

So instead of maybe sorting out the immigration problems, crime levels, tax rates or anything else, Tony Blair likes nothing more than spending his spare time knitting. That's a side we'll never see again.


An early Bush catches the German Chancellor.

And Bush's other scenanigans haven't gone un-noticed. Better lay low for the rest of the summit. Otherwise there could be trouble.

Number Crunching
What's been going on in Israel vs. Lebanon.
300 people (approx.) killed in Lebanon. 29 people killed in Israel. 25,000 Americans still to be evacuated. 21,000 (approx.) British citizens yet to be evacuated. 1,260 British citizens that have been evacuated. 500,000 people that are leaving Lebanon and surrounding areas. 80 number of Israeli air strikes made TODAY on Lebanon. 60,000 people expected to arrive in Cyprus after being evacuated. 5,000 The number of people the HMS Bulwark can carry to safety. 40 US Marines have arrived in Beirut to aid the evacuees. 80 Britons back in Britain.

Tori Comics 4

Am I Bothered?
No. I'm not. I had to wake up at 6am this morning to get home from Manchester. I'm completely cream crackered. I can't really be bothered typing.


CSN to Live Again
Well, here's a screengrab of the homepage. I've also made maybe 35 other pages. About half the site.

War Continues

A Quick Correction
In the words of Tony Blair "Some mistakes have been made..." Yesterday, not only did I spell Hezbullah as Hizbullah in every instance but I also said there were " some 100,000 British people who are yet to be evacuated." Sorry but this figure is actually just 10,000.

Well, back to the main story. When asked something about Lebanese citizens being killed, the Israeli Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Sunday am "The people are not our enemy. We are targetting the areas where they keep their missiles and there just happens to be people there." Or something along those lines. I should have wrote it down.


Done Up
Notice something different? No it's not a new hairdo, the blog is different! I scrapped the old "Red Sunset" design after people complained about it hurting their eyes. So now I got this much nicer one!


Retrospectacle An insight into the Robomilk of yesteryear...
Sim Search 3. The last in the trilogy af absolutely crap websites. This, unlike other Sim Search websites,this one was not dedicated to downloads or cheats, links or more links but news, reviews and the general like. I won't say much about this one. Except it wasn't really that good.


Yesterday's Web
Well since I spent yesterday redesigning this blog then I must say I got a lot of help from the tutorials at A List Apart. And as per usual I shall provide another linky for all you non web design types and this is last.fm which recently had a redesign of it's own and looks better than ever.

Israel vs. Hizbullah

War
It's been headline news for a few days now. Israel is at war with the Hizbullah colonies in the south of Lebanon. The airport is out of action. The railways, highways, communications and media are all out for the count. There is only one way out of Lebanon and that is a small crowded road. What if that was bombed? Not only would loads of people there die, but everyone else would be trapped!

What really shocks me is that America is an ALLY of Israel. Lebanon is home to some 100,000 British people who are yet to be evacuated. Doesn't that really mean that Britain and America are now at war too?


Felix Felicitus
The future isn't bright for Felix the cat. At the moment it doesn't even look orange. More blacky grey. There is a highly likely chance that he has a brain tumor. The cost to find out for sure - £1000. But that's what pet insurance is for!


Retrospectacle An insight into the Robomilk of yesteryear...
Sim Search 2. The middle of the website trilogy. It was what Sim Spawn was originally made to be. A directory of Sims related websites. It still is I believe. The thing is, this website breached just about every web rule ever made. Now it's just a simpering wreak. It covered with missing plugin errors, broken images and, your God! Animated GIFs. And anyone with an ounce of web design knowledge know that that's bad. And the logo probably gave you epilepsy.


Yesterday's Web
It's something used a lot be web designers. Yesterday I was busy web designing, so it was the W3C (X)HTML Validator. But for those not in on webby stuff I'll just give you White Ninja Comics which are good for a laugh.

HashKey

Webcomics
I read quite a few webcomics, there's Dilbert, Garfield, White Ninja Comics and many others - a lot of which you've probably never heard of. So I started my own starring my own Tori in, Tori Meets Mr. Logic.


Radiation
After watching Hroizon on BBC Two yesterday I am now quite convinced that the much feared radiation, son of such things as nuclear bombs, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, is completely harmless. Only 56 deaths have been linked to Chernobyl and many scientific studies have show that the more radioactive the environment you live in is, the LOWER the chances of getting cancer. Seems pretty conclusive proof. Take the USA for example. The central states have the HIGHEST levels of background radiation, yet also has the LOWEST levels of cancer. Unlike those to the east and west which have LOW levels of radiation but HIGH levels of cancer!


Bored Out of Your Mind?
The I have just the thing! Just click here!


CSN to Live Again - Update!
Half rebuilt, and to launch under a new name...


Retrospectacle An insight into the Robomilk of yesteryear...
Sim Search. Ah that was fine times. When accessibility and standards didn't mean squat to me. Sim Search was a Sims website directory. Then it went the same way as the Sims on the Web websites and just gave out cheats and downloads, some of which I'd made myself. The site was originally called Sim Spawn. The I changed my mind.

Then came my worst website yet. Sim Search 2. It has just about everything that you can do wrong with a website on it. Man that was bad. Tomorrow on Retrospectacle...


Yesterday's Web
Yesterday's site-of-the-day was....... the FurAffinity Forums! I won't bother explaining as I am quite tired and it's kind of self explanatory.

Wajackers!

Listening: Nothing
Surfing: deviantART


The Very Best of YouTube
Check out the Ultimate YouTube page for even more craziness. Pick of the day: Bush/Blair Press Confrence. This is just sooo goood! "He needs his arse labelled just so he can find it." Classic!
» YouTube


Going Postal
If you don't live in the UK then skip down as this has noting to do with you. You may have hard that Royal Mail is to start charging letters and parcels by size as well as weight. For Royal Mail this is a good thing - for everyone else it's a bad thing. Take for example, a polystyrene merchant, they didn't have to pay squat to send polystyrene to their customers, bacause polystyrene weighs nada. But he sends it in large quantities. So there's square metres upon square metres of the stuff. But the guy sent it cheap because it weighed very little.

Under the new rules, that polystyrene merchant would have to pay by the products dimensions as well as weight, and a quick calculation shows that could cost him £1.27, an almighty sum considering it would originally only cost 32p. The polystyrene merchant would go under, his company bust, his girlfriend out the door and with no light at the end of the tunnel.

DO NOT ALLOW ROYAL MAIL TO DO THIS!!!


CSN to Live Again
I'm sick of waiting, if it weren't for the crappy hosting brought on by Bravenet then CSN Animations would still be alive today. The admin, Chris Spence, is currently on hols in Canada. I'm making it my duty to bring CSN back from the dead, once and for all...


.netHeads
Yesterday I did the amazing. I became a Forum Sensei on the .net Forums. It doesn't really sound like much, but it took a year and is the first time I've ever managed to do something like this


Retrospectacle An insight into the Robomilk of yesteryear
Yesterday I started off with The Sims on the Web, today we focus on the sequal, The Sims on the Web 2.0. Click to see. Originally this site was just an expansion of the original with more downloads, more cheats, more information, and even a walkthrough guide. All was not to be however as I soon grew bored of writing long pieces of information for a tiny audience. The site was then sold to "Chris Spenge" of CSN Animations for an amazing £0.00. This is where Sim Search was born...


Yesterday's Web
Yesterday's site-of-the-day was....... WikiFur! The ultimate compendium for the furry fandom - which is basically an Internet subculture. Even I have an entry.

Every Word In This Title Is Capitalized

Listening: Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley
Surfing: FurAffinity Forums

Tori's New Groove
Yesterday I announced on deviantART that my main man(wolf) Tori was getting a makeover. And he has! Say helo to Tori 2.0! Just click on the thumbnail I've conveniantly placed to the left! Enjoy! And may your many slovenly thoughts be forever banished into the eternal pit known only as Klarrrblaaa!

Blogging Hits The Next Generation
After numerous comments concerning this new design, most of which say "Aargh! It's blinding me!" I have gone advanced and already started planning for version 5. Which will be so Web 2.0 that it's be chrome coloured!

Retrospectacle
An insight into the Robomilk of yesteryear!
Let's start at the beginning, 2003, the year my first ever website was launched. It was on April the 25th that The Sims on the Web, a Sims fansite, was launched. Unfortunately the Archive.org records only picked up on the site in August. So I'll show you that. Click here to get a blast from the past!

Back then web standard meant nothing and HTML was just jargon. But it didn't falter my longing for a successful website.

The Very Best of YouTube
The Ultimate YouTube page. Goddamn hippies! Pick of the day: Crazy Frost. The political equivalent to the annoying thing. Courtesy of the BBC!
» YouTube

Yesterday's Web
Yesterday's site-of-the-day was....... the .net magazine website! Yesterday marked a landmark occasion when the website went 2.0 and got a silver-themed overhaul and some of those snazzy Web 2.0 curved corners. Good on ya!

Finally...
Remember, whilst you're sleeping life goes on in DrBunsenHoneydew. Get the latest news here.

For My Eyes Only

MEEEEE!!!
I got a self portrait of myself done by myself. If you want to see it in all it's pencilled in beauty *cough* then head on down here to see it all (if you can bear it).


The Robomilk Top 5...
...ASCII Art Websites!
5The ASCII Generator lets you create your own ASCII wordart. There are loads of customization options from font size and style to reflective options so if you need wordart, think the ASCII Generator!

4The Chris Johnson Collection is a MASSIVE gallery of ASCII art. With characters from all over pop culture in amazing detail. Where else can you get a picture of Einstein with his tongue out... a tongue made almost entirely out of the letter 'M'?

3Krogg's World is an ASCII website through and through. The whole site is a piece of artwork. It's designed like your average computer's windows/navigation system, only entirely out of ASCII! It's amazing!

2Mike Naylor's ASCII gallery is smaller than the other sites listed, but includes some amazing optical illusions as well as 3D shapes. And if you're wondering what the hell I'm on about, there's also a neat little description of what ASCII is all about.

1Arkworld is the ultimate ASCII website. With an amazing database of cartoon chracters past and present/ Unlike on all the previous sites listed these images are entirely in colour. Although none of the work here was created by Arkworld's admin, his site is down so this'll have to do!


Robomilk Rovers - Update!
We won our last match yesterday 1-0! Halleluja! Check out the updates on the .net Challenge Cup page.


The Very Best of YouTube
The Ultimate YouTube page. Contains 79% of your recommended daily randomness amount. Pick of the day: Made Up Love Song #43 - the Guillemots.
» YouTube


Yesterday's Site
It's a new feature. Now you can find out which website I particularly enjoyed surfing yesterday. And today's (surely yesterday's?) winner is that crazy thing called the Encyclopedia Dramatica!* Just check out the entry for George W. Bush!

Current President of the United States. Single-handedly pluralized the internets.

He was born Akhmal Al Jabbar in Kaspiar, a small island in the Baltic Sea. It sunk. Akhmal (Slappy as his friends called him) ilegally immigrated into the United States hidden inside a nut. Once safely across the border, he came out.

This man, who frankly is a goddamned meatball, will probably go down in history as the second greatest President ever, right after Ronald McDonald. W is also the second smartest person in History, right after Dan Quayle, who, while visiting Latin America, lamented the fact that he'd never studied Latin, but promised to do pretty good in American.

* WARNING! Encyclopedia Dramatica is not for the faint hearted. Most of the website involves strong language, homosexual pornography and crudely drawn pictures.

BAACCCKKKK!!!

Nostalgic
Well, since all the posts before July 1st have been officially struck off the list I may as well use up some time re-posting everything along with all the new stuff. So first up... it was the last post in June... it's.... DEAD!

Click to read Dead...

Shaun is Deeaad!
Today, Shaun died. Today was the death of Shaun Hargreaves. The death of the lone commuter. The death of the lonely latch-key kid. But today some one was born. A person called Shaun Hargreaves. A person who fights for their beliefs and doesn't take p*ss from anybody. This person is great. This person is the greatest. This person is Shaun 2.0. This is the future... the future is bright, the future is orange.

Game On
OMG! Robomilk now has games!
» They is here!

Hoy!
» Clickses here for pirate-beating ninjas!

Bus-ted 3
Nothing actually happened today on the bus. And never will again. Because school is over. It's out. I'm never returning. St. Theodore's is officially c-l-o-s-e-d down. Next September it will reopen as Blessed Trinity College as part of the government's "Building Schools for the Future" initiative. I won't even be there. I'll be hot footing it down to Manchester in mid-August.

Leaving...
Leaving school for that very last time was sad. I'd never return to it's darkened doors. If school was hell (which it was) I'd no longer be waiting outside the gates of hell every day. I'd probably never see many people there ever again. It's quite upsetting... I was back there again five minutes later because I'd forgotten to pick up my records for the new school.

last.fm

Deviants Day
I'm going to make the day of one member of deviantART by making them the Deviant of the Day! And today's winner is.... *drumroll* ~ianmrf! I've been watching the guy for less than 24 hours and I've already fallen in love with his character Rusty. Maybe it's out starking resemblance. Or maybe just me. Who knows?


The Very Best of YouTube
Get down to the Ultimate YouTube page. Pick o' the day: » Mastermind - The Opera.
» YouTube

Bring It Down

FAQ Troubles
After asking for comments on the new blog design on the .net Forums I was quickly told that the FAQ doesn't work in Internet Explorer, which is quite weird as it works on all browsers (including IE) so... anybody got any answers?


Ill
This week hasn't been the best for Tim. His father died. His cat Felix is severely ill (probably a tumor) and his leg has been playing up... AGAIN!


Bad Ass Wolf
Well Doctor Who is over. But last night I had an idea (cue stupid joke about cogs) what if the Doctor was a wolf. It makes perfect sense! It would fit in with the whole "Bad Wolf" conspiracy of series one. So I set my plan into action. Lo and behold, at quarter to midnight I finished the initial sketch. Click here to see it.

/ Update
And by 3:30pm today I have a coloured version! Halleluja!

The Best of Albino Blacksheep
Back for a one-off special!
» Pac Attack
A great piece fusing live action with animation, a form pioneered with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and has become an incresingly popular art form. Watch!


The Very Best of YouTube
Now stepping away from yesterday's seriousness, I am presenting to you an epic video of life and death, with a voiceover from John Cleese. Click to see. Also avaliable for your enjoyment is another Monty Python related sketch, only this time it's a tribute by those guys who created South Park. Click to see.
» YouTube

/ Update
Get more from YouTube with the new Ultimate YouTube page. Only on the Robomilk Blog!

Developed

Betamax
This blog is currently in Beta (we skipped Alpha). So now I need your help to tell me, what needs improving? What problems have you encounted? Stuff like that. You can either leave a comment (or if the comment system is what you're complaining about) then email me at shaun.hargreaves@gmail.com and please describe the problem good and proper. Otherwise I can't help!


Su-doc-who
Tonight is the almighty finale of Doctor Who. There has been many a conspiracy over what the final episode will be like. Specially since Billie Piper - aka. Rose Tyler - announced her leaving (read here) and her replacement announced little more than a week later (read here). I for one can't wait for the last episode. But am a bit peeved off that I'll have to wait til Christmas until the new series starts. Still, quality comes at a price.

/ Update
The last episode has now occured. If you missed it and will be watching on BBC Three tomorrow at 7pm. Then DON'T click on the link below...
Rose's Fate

Rose doesn't (really) leave the Doctor, though neither does she die. She falls through the void and into the parallel world when the bridge between the two dimensions closes. Although in the parallel world she is alive, the official records from our own universe list her amongst the missing. Presumed dead.

The Very Best of YouTube
YouTube is the place you outta be if you're looking for car crash TV. So I'm going to give it to you! By the way the reporter in this video is lucky to be alive. Clicky.


The Bus-ted Chronicles
Wow. Famous last words were when I said "I'm never getting the bus again." I've been on busses for the last 4 days. The first time was actually quite funny. I had my clueless expression on. I was also wearing sunglasses! This prompted the bus driver to ask the guy next to me "Does he speak English?"

Oh how we laughed!

Is There Any Life?

7 Slash 7


Images from the BBC and Getty Images.

Today marked the first anniversary of the 7th July terrorist attack on London. At the time of the 2 minute silence, noon, I was in Picadilly Gardens in sunny Manchester. It was quite shocking when something not unlike an explosion went off only a few hundred metres from where I was standing. My initial reaction was to think "Oh s**t! A terrorist attack? On July 7th? How sick are these terrorists?"

Then I remembered the noon silence. The irony is that they sparked silence with noise. After the peoples original "WTF?" moments had been realised all fell silent. Every bus came to a standstill, as did every tram and car. Some people even stopped in the middles of the roads to observe the silence. It was eerily quiet. The end started like the start, with a loud BOOM! marking the end of the two minutes.

I've Been Busy
That's why proper updates have been scarce. However content shall now resume being added.

The Very Best of YouTube
Different. Very different. Probably appealing to fans of the anthro art form (ie. me). So here it is.

Changing Rooms
This blog's design will soon change to one I made myself. It will make the blog fully mobile capable and will also house a variety of new stuff, as well as the old. However to do this I must (in effect) remove every past entry. Enjoy it while you can! 'Cause you aren't getting it back!

/ Update
Scrub that. I'm keeping all the old posts! You'll just have trouble reading them!

Outed

You could say this blog is now in a state of disrepair. I'm too busy setting up the new Robomilk site and learning how to script PHP that I have vertually no time to do anything else. See yesterday's post for a "sneek peek" of what the new site may end up looking like...

Blogroll
Moments...
Vitalsecurity.org
I like dirt...
Channel 27 Development Blog

DotDotDot

At the moment I am creating a new Robomilk Blog. With a better design and such. It is fully XHTML and CSS compliant, can be accessed via mobile and works properly in all tested browsers (Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5, Opera 9, Netscape 8.1)

R.I.P.

Update
I bring sad news. Tim's dad, whom I reported about about a week ago for being seriously ill, has unfortunately died in the night. The cause of death is unknown at this time. I will report back when more details come to light.

The Very Best of YouTube
YouTube is a website on the vast plain we call the internet. It is a place, like everywhere else, where the average joe has a voice. Following the eon8 "conspiracy" this video has been made showing what would it be like if eon8 wasn't a harmless piece of fun, but a serious attempt (by terrorists) to destroy their enimies. Click here to watch the video
Warning! This video is of a political nature and includes scenes from the 9/11 attacks on America.

Goatse Clock
Well it appears that Vitalsecurity.org's creative 'Goatse Clock' idea worked. Every website that had been nicking bandwidth had taken down the offending images in 24 hours before the even more offending images were unleased upon them. If you want to know what Goatse, Tubgirl and the rest are about then click here. The most persistant (as I pointed out to site admin, Paperghost) was some guy working under the name of Desmond, although he has now taken down the hotlinked image and replaced it with... another hotlinked image! Read more about PG's success story here.

My favourite comment?

oh god pelase [sic] make it stop im so sorry i dont know what i did to you but please take that mans ass off my site i dont want it there aNYMORE

CSS Upgrade
I have completed phase 2 of the CSS overhaul. However there will be no work done on the CSS today.
» FAQ3: CSS Standards

Apocalypse Today

ROBOMILK DEMANDS YOU VIEW THIS VIDEO!

Games Update
The games page has now been updated with Submachine, the ultimate problem solving game. I've never managed to get past level one. Therefore it must be challenging.
» Click here for submachine and many more!

CSS
Okay. So yesterday I never got round to sorting any CSS. Mainly because there was a massive thunderstorm for about 4 hours. Hopefully today should be better.
» FAQ3: CSS Standards

eon8 - the aftermath
Paperghost, the person who I was condemning a few days ago for making me say 'teh' to everything has got a new evil scheme. After the fall of eon8 PG wrote long descriptions of what happened in extreme detail. Some of which was even used by me. Subsiquently Vitalsecurity.org was hotlinked, blogged, Dugg and wiki'd to near oblivion (not me though, I saved his images to my server and credited him :P). Now Paperghost is getting his own back with the Goatse Clock. You can find more stuff about this here.

The Very Best of YouTube
Some apparently famous video maker under the name of MooT BooXLé has a new video showing near enough 8 minutes of non-stop, improvised synthesizer playing. Got quite a good rating too. watch explosion here. And for those who aren't into watching a person play synths for that long then here's a mime dancing group.
» YouTube

Featuring

Today, my troubles are still here to stay
I'm not doing much today. Just the usual. I'll be continiuing the CSS overhaul for one. But the most noticeable change will be the new look comments system. It's actually the same as before, only I made it so that whatever you say comes out in a nice speech bubble!

Remember
The games, FAQ and analytics sections were all updated yesterday. So go check them out!
» Games
» Analytics
» FAQ

The Very Best of YouTube
This music video is amazing! It's is compiled entirely of clips from Family Guy. And just to show I'm not biased I'm also giving you a Simpsons music vid too. definately the best of YouTube
» Simpsons Video
» Family Guy Video
Some people may find both the videos disturbing as they feature death and generally unpleasant things.

The Commonwealth of DrBunsenHoneydew
Find out more...

eon8

Image from Vitalsecurity.org.

Conspire to inspire?
I only heard about it last night. About 4 hours before the end, but the whole eon8 thing really got me interested. to tell the truth I never managed to get onto the site because it was constantly over-bandwidth. I got all my information off Forums, YTMND, Digg and Vitalsecurity.org. The apocalypse? Or just some clever viral marketing? Very few got the right answer. All along it was only an experiment held by a Florida man called 'Matt'. Just to see what the effects of 'lack of information' would do to the public. Read the final message here.

Now, if only we knew what Untitled.com is about...

YTMND-eon8
It would appear that eon8 passed by without anything happening. Just like Y2K. But I noticed something this morning. YTMND is down! And the cause? Hacked by eon8! You can click on the link for proof! Not hoaxed! YTMND seriously said that this morn! Although it was probably hacked by a hacked off hacker it still is a consequence of eon8!

The Very Best of YouTube
Now replacing the Best of Albino Blacksheep is the brand spanking new The Very Best of YouTube! Yesterday we brought you Doogtoons' "Ask A Ninja". Today it's an England World Cup song. Only another 200 downloads and it's in the top 40! You can download it at Little Indian Records and click here to see the video!
» YouTube

Site Updates
» CSS will be overhauled soon. Maybe later today, might be next week. Either way I'm getting it done if it kills me! - More info
» Links will now act normally and be placed in the middle of the text where they should be. Not at the bottom of the post. It makes more snese.
» The games page that was added yesterday has been updated - Games.
» Need help? then check out the newly updated FAQ!
» The analytics information for June is now avaliable - Analytics.