Apache quirks

One of the best ways to get the Apache webserver to fail to start is to ask it to have a logfile in a directory that doesn't exist. I suspect every user has been caught by this at least once.

This 'feature' has doubtless cost users thousands of hours work, not least as it won't tell you exactly why it's not starting (or at least 1.3 via webmin doesn't, they may have fixed this in 2.x) or ask if you want to create the directory or any other useful response.

But... if you ask it to serve webpages from a non-existent directory, it'll start up happily, and not moan or give any hint as to what's (not) happening.

I've upgraded my beard comb

It used to be a 486 - the 33 MHz version I paid about £100 for in the late 80s, not long after Intel brought out the 486/50 and the price of the 486/33 dropped.

It was the first CPU in what was my main PC for some years in the 90s, and ended up being replaced by a 486 DX-2/66 and then the wonderful pin-compatible Cyrix Xc5x86/100.

Now it's a Pentium/133 from a PC found in the street with almost everything else ripped out. Even more gold pin goodness :)

You'll never look at a boomerang in the same way again.

From the British Medical Journal: "It took years, a lobby, undesired publicity, and a godsend (two tablets of sildenafil 25 mg) to obtain our images."

A 'may not be entirely work safe link for some' on the results of couples having sex in an NMR scanner.