Henri Cook

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13 Feb, 2010

Red American Party Cups (Solo Cups)

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Sillyness

After much searching I found a supplier of Red American Party Cups (AKA Solo Cups) and i’m now reselling off them, the very very rubbish website (I prefer the term ‘functional’) can be found here.

I was surprised this morning to find that McAfee ‘On Access Scan’ had deleted my copy of Spotify overnight saying that it was an example of W32 IRCbot.gen.z – thanks Mcafee, you’re now disabled.
This of course raises an interesting question – does Spotify connect to IRC somewhere? What other reason could McAfee have for detecting [...]

I was recently asked to repair a five year old Sony Vaio PCG-FX705, it’s got a 600 Mhz processor don’t ya know? Anyway it overheats and shuts down a lot which makes it bin worthy to my eyes, but a sentimental owner has a different opinion. Here’s a couple of pictures of my solution to [...]

22 May, 2007

The Google Game!

Posted by: Henri Cook In: Humour| Sillyness

Rules of the Google Game: Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then “likes to”. Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own note.
1. Henri likes to look at it as he goes up and down the stairs
2. Henri likes to stop every so often [...]

02 Sep, 2006

Sex is bad for women!

Posted by: Henri Cook In: It's Wrong.| Sillyness

It’s finally happened. The science geeks are now telling us that sex is bad bad bad, for women at least. So what do they need us men for? The final stage of the feminine world domination master plan is obviously nearing its end.
First they take away the finer things in life, like big fatty donuts [...]



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Henri Cook is a postgraduate Computer Science student at Durham University, UK. His interests range from the technical and geeky through to watersports through to psychology. Please take the time to look around and comment, the author values your feedback.