Pandora's Briefcase: Pictures came and broke your heart, Put the blame on...

I have my very own cube.

Rob gave it to me, and was really what started the ball rolling as far as the contents of Pandora's Briefcase is concerned. So you can blame him.

OK, it doesn't quite look like the one in the picture above, but it is similar.

Honest!

Let's open up Pandora's Briefcase, and check out this beastie!

Pandora's Briefcase: UM. D-on't know what to say about this one...

It never ceases to amaze me the efforts that some companies go to develop a new "standard" in recording media, even when there appears to be no interest from other companies to adopt. And there is one company that seems to love jumping in boots'n'all on a regular basis... and failing almost as regularly to set a new standard that others adopt!

And, no, my six-year-olds have not seen this film!

Pandora's Briefcase: Insert Some Pun Related To Item-In-Question HERE.

The Pandorica opens once more!

I still remember the excitement when my sister brought home the first computer to live in our house. It was an Amstrad 464 with colour monitor and built-in tape-drive. What's more, my sister also bought a disk-drive peripheral! We were living in the future, and it would not be long before we would all have our own rocket-packs, and robots would be doing my homework for me...

*sigh*

I know not where that thing-of-beauty that created many an hour of "Elite" space-sim adventure now resides. I do, however, still retain a reminder of this once-mighty machine:

Testing a Mobile Blogger App

This test is two-fold; to see how usable this app is (who knows, it may mean I'll blog more frequently... pfft!), and to see if anyone is actually following this any longer- if you're out there, say "hi" in a comment!

The dust on Pandora 's Briefcase grows thick...

Testing multiple photo display.

I patted this kookaburra!

Well...let's see how it goes, shall we...

Elder Shaun

After a rather oblique exchange with a friend on Facebook ...

The whimsy set in, and after a little time Photoshopping I came up with this:

Please note that no Mormons, Zombies, or bike-pumps were harmed in the making of this work of "art", and no offence was intended towards any of the afore-mentioned parties!

Thanks must go to http://www.fanpop.com for the original image that I stole, and to dafont.com for their free-for-personal-use Shaun of the Dead font. And for those concerned about my spiritual welfare after the apocalypse, I have not exposed my delicate self to the horrors of the Shaun of the Dead movie, although I do know the plot. OK?

Pandora's Briefcase: You've got to be CED-ing me!

My eldest son was peering over my shoulder as I was looking back at my posts here, and noted that my last post was on the 21st of October, 2011. "That's a long time!", he said. "It is quiet here... too quiet!" And so once again I blow the cobwebs off the briefcase, and reach with my hazmat-gloved hand into its cavernous bowels to retrieve... Well, I thought seeing as I referred to this format when talking to a friend on facebook, how about one of these:

Pandora's Briefcase: Sucker Punch!

Yeah, you thought the briefcase had died, or disappeared, or burned in the fire (oh... I haven't told mum and dad about the fire... just keep it to yourselves...) but SURPRISE!

Today's little entry may remind you a bit of a previous posting (big non-prize for the first person to guess which previous item from Pandora's Briefcase!)

Let me present you with a box:

The crossed out writing says: Run 6/2    Swan Code

No; it does not contain a sheep, not even a small one. (Extra Non-Prize for identifying obscure reference)

The contents revealed.

And revealed a little more-so.

Let me introduce you to a roll of eight-hole punched paper tape- the name is somewhat confusing as, if you look at it closely, it isn't:

Eight Hole Punched Tape with ninth "mysterious" row of smaller holes.

As is usually the case with my Pandora's Briefcase entries, I shan't bore you with the history of this technology (this example was bought on ebay from the UK for less than AUD$10). You can knock yourself out visiting Wikipedia's entry, which will also explain why the official hole counter is actually right. And if you happen to have any 5, 6, or 7 hole tape lying around looking for a home, please drop me a line!